Bacon, Sir Francis

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

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Description

Essaies. Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed. London: Printed [by William Jaggard] for John Jaggard, Dwelling in Fleete Street at the Hand and Starre Neere Temple Barre, 1606
ink, paper

8vo (4 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.; 121 x 70 mm). Woodcut headpiece and row of printer's ornaments on title-page and section title for Of the Colours of good and euill, a fragment, woodcut initials, printer's ornaments employed as head- and tailpieces; lacks terminal blank G4. Nineteenth-century purple morocco paneled gilt, smooth spine decorated and lettered gilt, gilt dentelles, edges gilt. Brown morocco solander case by J. Kulesho.

Provenance

Rev. Thomas Corser (Sotheby's, 17 March 1869, Part II, lot 61) — Henry Huth (acquired at foregoing sale through Frederick S. Ellis; morocco ticket an sale, Sotheby's, 17 November 1911, Part I, lot 386) — Henry Sotheran — R. Hartz. acquisition: John Fleming, 1978

Literature

STC 1139 (as the fifth edition); ESTC S104434; Gibson 4 (as the fourth edition)

Catalogue Note

The Corser-Huth-Hartz copy of the Essaies, a handsome, well-preserved copy.