Accession number
PML 37230
Creator
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
Published
Londini, Apud Joannem Billium, Typographum Regium, anno 1620.
Credit line
Gift of Roland L. Redmond, 1942.
Notes
Title-page engraved and illustrated.
Pages 23-24 at end (sig. c4 blank?) wanting; also last leaf e4 (blank). Errors: nos. 173-180 omitted in paging; 111 misprinted for 311; 6 at end misprinted for 7.
"Distributio operis. Eius constituuntur partes sex: 1. Partitiones scientiarum, 2. Nouum organum, 3. Phaenomena vniuersi, 4. Scala intellectus, 5. Prodromi, 6. Philosophia secunda."--p. 15.
Of the six parts, this edition contains only the 2d part, the Novum organum, followed by a sketch of the 3d part, which the author calls, "Parasceue ad historiam naturalem et experimentalem," and a "Catalogus historiarum particularium, secundum capita." Works which represent the first and third parts were published later; of the fourth and fifth parts only prefaces were written.
Morgan copy on large paper 12 5/8 x 8 1/2 inches.
Pages 23-24 at end (sig. c4 blank?) wanting; also last leaf e4 (blank). Errors: nos. 173-180 omitted in paging; 111 misprinted for 311; 6 at end misprinted for 7.
"Distributio operis. Eius constituuntur partes sex: 1. Partitiones scientiarum, 2. Nouum organum, 3. Phaenomena vniuersi, 4. Scala intellectus, 5. Prodromi, 6. Philosophia secunda."--p. 15.
Of the six parts, this edition contains only the 2d part, the Novum organum, followed by a sketch of the 3d part, which the author calls, "Parasceue ad historiam naturalem et experimentalem," and a "Catalogus historiarum particularium, secundum capita." Works which represent the first and third parts were published later; of the fourth and fifth parts only prefaces were written.
Morgan copy on large paper 12 5/8 x 8 1/2 inches.
Description
5 p.l., 360, 36 p., 1l. 30 cm.
Provenance
Presentation inscription on title page from Niccolo Barbarigo and Marco Trivisano; Roland Redmond.
Binding
Contemporary vellum, blue cotton ties, with devise of Bacon; in case by Duprez Lahey.
Classification
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