Baconiana. Or Certain genuine remains of Sr. Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, and Viscount of St. Albans; . in arguments civil and moral, natural, medical, theological, and bibliographical; now the first time faithfully published. An account of these remains, and of all his Lordship's other works, is given by the publisher, in a discourse by way of introduction.
Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (1561 - 1626)
Category
Books
Date
1679
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3107454
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4],104;[8],270,[2]p. . port.. (metal cut) . 8vo.. Variant: imprimatur on A4r. Former shelfmarks: Bb/7 (in pencil), Bb.4.3 (blue ink). manuscript inscription in hand of Thomas Pope Blount on title page identifying the editor: "by Dr. Thomas Tenison".. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front pastedown: "Tittenhanger Library" [i.e. from the library at Tittenhanger in Hertfordshire formed by Thomas Pope Blount, grandfather of the wife of Charles Yorke (1722-1770)].. Binding: Seventeenth-century blind-panelled sprinkled calf binding; blind roll on board edges; blind fillets, roll and red gilt title label on spine. Marbled edges.
Makers and roles
Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (1561 - 1626) Frederick-Hendrik van den Hove (The Hague c.1628 - London 1698). Thomas Tenison (1636-1715) Archbishop of Canterbury