Accession number
PML 37209
Creator
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
Published
London : Printed [by William Jaggard] for Iohn Iaggard, 1612.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. Roland L. Redmond, March 1942.
Notes
"Religious meditations"= a translation into English from Latin of "Meditationes sacrae".
"Of the colours of good and euill" [i.e. Places of perswasion and disswasion] has separate dated title page; register is continuous.
Divided into two parts, the first a reprint of Jaggard's 1606 ed., the second containing the 29 additional essays first published in J. Beale's 1612 edition (STC 1141).
White. Catalogue, p. 6 says: 5th ed. A-O[superscript]8, G8 blank. Pirated reprint of the Beale ed. of 1612.
Contains 38 essays. "Of the colours of good and euill, a fragment. 1612, "p. 67-111".
Dedication signed: Francis Bacon.
Printer suggested by STC (2nd ed.).
Second issue of the 1612 Jaggard ed., with [G7-8] uncancelled and with H1 repeating the text contained on [G7]. For details of this ed. cf. Pforzheimer cat., no. 28.
"This is said to be an amplified reprint in two parts of the pirated impression issued by Jaggard in 1606. Collation: A-F[superscript]8 (first leaf blank), G[superscript]6, H-O[superscript]8. This copy has the final leaf of an impression of 1606 (G7) inserted between G6 and H1" cf. Steeves sale cat. 25 May 1916 no. 14.
"Of the colours of good and euill" [i.e. Places of perswasion and disswasion] has separate dated title page; register is continuous.
Divided into two parts, the first a reprint of Jaggard's 1606 ed., the second containing the 29 additional essays first published in J. Beale's 1612 edition (STC 1141).
White. Catalogue, p. 6 says: 5th ed. A-O[superscript]8, G8 blank. Pirated reprint of the Beale ed. of 1612.
Contains 38 essays. "Of the colours of good and euill, a fragment. 1612, "p. 67-111".
Dedication signed: Francis Bacon.
Printer suggested by STC (2nd ed.).
Second issue of the 1612 Jaggard ed., with [G7-8] uncancelled and with H1 repeating the text contained on [G7]. For details of this ed. cf. Pforzheimer cat., no. 28.
"This is said to be an amplified reprint in two parts of the pirated impression issued by Jaggard in 1606. Collation: A-F[superscript]8 (first leaf blank), G[superscript]6, H-O[superscript]8. This copy has the final leaf of an impression of 1606 (G7) inserted between G6 and H1" cf. Steeves sale cat. 25 May 1916 no. 14.
Description
[220] p. ; 18 cm
Provenance
With book-plate of G. Walter Steeves (sale 25 May 1916, no. 14); Roland L. Redmond.
Binding
Dark brown morocco by Rivière & Son.
Classification
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