Essays of Bacon by Bacon, Francis - 1900

George Routledge & Sons, 1910. Hardcover. Good. 1910. No Edition Remarks. 218 pages. No dust jacket. Blue and white cloth board. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Cleveland: Fine Editions Press, 1111. Book. Very Good. Half-Leather. Another Edition. 207mm Tall; 8vo. Introduction by Henry Morley. xiv, 140 pages. Top page edges gilt. Wear and small tears at top/tail of spine. Two small stains on page fore-edges. Stain on back cover..

London: Arthur L. Humprhreys, 1900. Hardcover. Good. Handsome fine binding of Bacon's essays in which he holds forth on a number of topics including friendship, cunning, atheism and marriage. Square 8vo. Red and black titles. Half leather with raised bands and elaborate gilt to spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Marbled endpapers. Book marker ribbon. Light fading and rubbing to covers. Nibbles to prelims. fading to end-papers. Contents clean and prim, binding square and tight. Good+ overall.

London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1907. First edition thus. First edition thus. 12mo. Attractive full brown crushed morocco binding by Harcourt Bindery (signed in palet front dentelle) with gilt border designs on covers and spine, gilt dentelles. Slight wear to margins of spine, else near fine.

London: Humphreys, 1907. Leather. Fine. 6.5" by 5". None. A collection of essays by Francis Bacon, bound in a full crushed morocco Hatchards binding. 'The Royal Library Belles Lettres Series' edition.Bound in full crushed morocco by Hatchards with their signature to the front pastedown. This work features a collection of essays by the noted Philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon. This volume features the fifty-eight essays that were featured in Bacon's original work titled 'Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall' which was first published in 1625. The essays cover a range of topics such as religion, Parents, nobility, friendship and education. Bound in a full crushed morocco binding. Endpapers and blanks renewed, retaining half title. Externally lovely with only slight fading to the spine. Minimal offsetting to the extremities of the endpapers. Internally firmly bound bright and generally clean pages with the odd spot. Fine

London: Humphreys, 1907. hardcover. near fine. Rubricated title. 323 pages, 12mo, untrimmed, top edge gilt. Full black crushed morocco, ornately gilt spine and covers. London: Humphreys. Near fine.<br/><br/> Early ownership name on fly-leaf.<br/><br/>