Accession number
PML 37256
Creator
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
Published
London : Printed by J[ohn]. H[aviland]. for William Lee at the Turkes Head in Fleet-street, next to the Miter, 1627.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. Roland L. Redmond, 1942.
Notes
Added t.p. illus., dated 1629.
Frontispiece engraved portrait of Bacon at the age of 66, unsigned.
Head pieces, initials; printer's mark of John Haviland. cf. McKerrow, no. 392.
Haviland's name from STC; "Mathewes pr[inted]. quires A-B of Sylva, and New Atlantis".
With an additional title page, engraved, signed "Tho: Cecill sculp:", and dated 1627.
"Nevv Atlantis" has divisional title on a1, and separate pagination. a2 is a cancel.
Leaf g3 is a list, "Magnalia naturæ, præcipue quoad usus humanos".
Signatures: pi² ²pi² A-2M⁴ 2N² a-g⁴. Leaves L3, 2A1, 2D4, 2M1 and g4 are all blank; may be wanting from some copies.
Frontispiece engraved portrait of Bacon at the age of 66, unsigned.
Head pieces, initials; printer's mark of John Haviland. cf. McKerrow, no. 392.
Haviland's name from STC; "Mathewes pr[inted]. quires A-B of Sylva, and New Atlantis".
With an additional title page, engraved, signed "Tho: Cecill sculp:", and dated 1627.
"Nevv Atlantis" has divisional title on a1, and separate pagination. a2 is a cancel.
Leaf g3 is a list, "Magnalia naturæ, præcipue quoad usus humanos".
Signatures: pi² ²pi² A-2M⁴ 2N² a-g⁴. Leaves L3, 2A1, 2D4, 2M1 and g4 are all blank; may be wanting from some copies.
Description
[14], 266, [16], 47, [5] pages : illustration (portrait) ; 28 cm
Provenance
Signed "Ant. Stephenson, A.M. 1773" on title page; bookplate of G. Walter Steeves; Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of Roland L. Redmond, March 1942.
Binding
17th-century English calf.
Classification
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