[Of the advancement and proficiencie of learning or the partitions of sciences IX bookes].
Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (1561 - 1626)
Category
Books
Date
1640 - 1700
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 3094917
Summary
Bibliographic description
[32],38,[14];322,[20]p., [1] leaf of plates . port.. . fol.. Imperfect: wanting title page and final leaf. manuscript note in pencil on front pastedown: "This appears to be a reprint of the Oxford ed. of 1640. It has no title, + the portrait is not right for that ed.".. Provenance: Armorial bookplate: Mary Lady Hervey [i.e. Mary Lepel, Lady Hervey (1696-1768)]. Manuscript inscription on A3r: "M: Hervey" [i.e. Mary Lepel, Lady Hervey (1696-1768)].. Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled calf binding; triple blind fillet border; blind roll on board edges. Rebacked in gold-tooled calf, with gilt title and date stamped on spine. Marbled edges.
Provenance
Part of the Bristol Collection. The house and contents were acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1956
Makers and roles
Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (1561 - 1626) Gilbert Watts (d.1657)