The Essaies of Sr Francis Bacon Knight, the Kings Aturney Generall. His Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed
by Bacon, Francis
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- Condition
- Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine. Title and terminal leaf soiled and worn, with some small chips at edges, small v
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The Essayes of statesman and philosopher Francis Bacon (1561-1626) treat moral and political topics in "a terse, aphoristic style ... which Bacon conceived as a genre setting down discrete observations on life, and aspiring to some kind of objective validity" (ODNB). "In an age of complicated and superficial verbiage, [Bacon] turns the licence of imaginative and allusive expression into an instrument of accurate and chastened thought" (Cambridge History of English and American Literature). The Essayes were originally circulated in manuscript among Bacon's friends - the threat of a pirated edition by Richard Seeger lead to Bacon entrusting the work to Humfrey Hooper for publication in 1597. ESTC S100361; Gibson 9; Pforzheimer 29
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- James Cummins Bookseller (US)
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- Title
- The Essaies of Sr Francis Bacon Knight, the Kings Aturney Generall. His Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed
- Author
- Bacon, Francis
- Format/Binding
- Title within border of printer's ornaments, head- and tailpieces, woodcut initials, "Of the Colours" section title. [232] pp. Co
- Book Condition
- Used - Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine. Title and terminal leaf soiled and worn, with some small chips at edges, small v
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Beale piracy, with "Aturney" on title-page
- Publisher
- [John Beale] for John Jaggard
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1613
- Keywords
- British
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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