Lot 33
  • 33

Bacon, Sir Francis

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • The Essayes or Couvnsells, Civill and Morall, of Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount St. Alban. Newly Enlarged. London: Printed by John Haviland for Hanna Barret, and Richard Whitaker, and are to be sold at the Signe of the Kings Head in Pauls Church-Yard, 1625
  • ink, paper, leather
4to (8 1/2 x 6 in.; 216 x 152 mm). Title within double-ruled border with printer's ornament, woodcut and metalcut headpieces and decorative initials, text within ruled border with blank marginal column for side-notes; lacking initial blank leaf, washed and pressed. Modern full red morocco by Riviere & Son, the spine in six compartments lettered gilt in two, gilt dentelles, plain endpapers, edges gilt; upper joint slightly rubbed near head of spine, dentelles offsetting to free endpapers.  

Provenance

acquisition: Bernard Quaritch, 1965

Literature

STC 1147; ESTC S100362; Gibson 13 (see also notes in Gibson 14); Pforzheimer 30 (note)

Condition

4to (8 1/2 x 6 in.; 216 x 152 mm). Title within double-ruled border with printer's ornament, woodcut and metalcut headpieces and decorative initials, text within ruled border with blank marginal column for side-notes; washed and pressed. Modern full red morocco by Riviere & Son, the spine in six compartments lettered gilt in two, gilt dentelles, plain endpapers, edges gilt; upper joint slightly rubbed near head of spine, dentelles offsetting to free endpapers.
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Catalogue Note

Another copy, slightly larger than the previous lot.