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
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3107455
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 104; [8], 270, [2] p. : port. (metal cut) ; 8vo. Running number: 4157. Variant: imprimatur on A4r. Imperfect: wanting frontispiece portrait ([a]1), pp. 15-16 (b8), and title page "Baconiana politico-moralia" (B1). Provenance: manuscript marginal notes in pencil on pp. 4-7. Binding: eighteenth-century[?] calf; gilt title and date on spine. Re-bound at some point: three stab stitch holes visible in gutter margin of leaves throughout.
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