Accession number
PML 37212
Creator
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
Published
Printed at London : By I. D. [i.e. John Dawson] for Elizabeth Iaggard, at the hand and Starre neere the middle Temple-gate., 1624.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. Roland L. Redmond, March 1942.
Notes
First and last leaf are blank.
Printer's name from STC.
There are 41 essays listed in the table of contents, but there are actually 39; essays no. 30 "Of ceremonies and respects" and no. 40 "Of warre and peace" are not included in the text.
"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 a separate dated title page; register is continuous.
The "Essays" were originally published in 1597, containing 10 essays; an enlarged edition in 1612 contained 38 and the final edition in 1625 58.
Eleventh ed. (STC 1146).
... last page: "Jerome Alley have read this Booke all over. Anno Domini 1676."
Contains 41 essays, "The Meditations" and "Of the Colours" at end.
White. Catalogue, p. 6.
Signature: A-O[superscript]8, P4-A1 and P4 blanks and wanting.
Printer's name from STC.
There are 41 essays listed in the table of contents, but there are actually 39; essays no. 30 "Of ceremonies and respects" and no. 40 "Of warre and peace" are not included in the text.
"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 a separate dated title page; register is continuous.
The "Essays" were originally published in 1597, containing 10 essays; an enlarged edition in 1612 contained 38 and the final edition in 1625 58.
Eleventh ed. (STC 1146).
... last page: "Jerome Alley have read this Booke all over. Anno Domini 1676."
Contains 41 essays, "The Meditations" and "Of the Colours" at end.
White. Catalogue, p. 6.
Signature: A-O[superscript]8, P4-A1 and P4 blanks and wanting.
Description
[228] p. ; 13 cm
Provenance
With book-plate of W.H. Corfield and G. Walter Steeves (sale 25 May 1916, no. 17). On the last ...
Binding
17th century English calf, gilt; in dark green cloth case.
Classification
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