Accession number
PML 37260
Creator
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
Published
London : Printed [by N. Okes] for William Washington, and are to be sold at his shop in S. Dunstanes church-yard, 1629.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. Roland L. Redmond, March 1942.
Notes
Originally intended as the first part of the "Instauratio magna", but later superseded by the "De augmentis scientiarum", which is an expanded Latin version of the "Advancement".
Printer's mark (McK.269) on t.-p.
Misnumbered pages: 26 for 29; 93 for 111; beginning with p. 167 wrongly numbered 169 all pages misnumbered to the end.
Printer's mark (McK.269) on t.-p.
Misnumbered pages: 26 for 29; 93 for 111; beginning with p. 167 wrongly numbered 169 all pages misnumbered to the end.
Description
[2], 335 (i.e.333) p. ; 19 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
With autograph signatures of "P. Al Girardet sacerdtis," "W.S. Ogden, 1885."
Provenance
A. L. Girardet; W.S. Ogden; G. Walter Steeves ex libris (sale 25 May 1916 item 34); Roland L. Redmond.
Binding
Contemporary calf.
Classification
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Department