Lord Bacon's essays, or counsels moral and civil. . Translated from the Latin by William Willymott, LL.D. ... In two volumes. ...
Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (1561 - 1626)
Category
Books
Date
1720
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3043880
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. ; 8vo. Running number: 4274. Vol. 1 only. Shelved and uniform with vol. 2 of the two-volume set printed for Henry Parson, London, 1720 (ESTC N2887). Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "M. 2. vol." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: eighteenth-century red morocco; gold-tooled with fillets, rolls and stamps to a Cambridge-style panel design; gilt roll pattern on board edges and turn-ins; gold-tooled spine, with gilt title label. All edges gilt. Gauffered edges. Marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (1561 - 1626) William Willymott (d.1737)