Sylva sylvarum: . or, A natural history. In ten centuries. Whereunto is newly added the History naturall and experimentall of life and death, or of the prolongation of life. Both written by the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam Viscount St. Alban. Published after the authors death, by William Ravvley Doctor in Divinity one of his Majesties chaplains. Hereunto is now added an alphabetical table of the principall things contained in the ten centuries.
Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (1561 - 1626)
Category
Books
Date
1658
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3139529
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16],218,[22]; [4],36; [8],64 p., [3] leaves of plates . ill.., port.. . fol.. Imperfect: Sylva sylvarum only; without other works. Old Wimpole shelfmarks: Qq2-1 [brown ink]; B/4 [pencil]; Rr.4.21. Provenance: manuscript on title page: Jo: Somers [i.e. John, Lord Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor]; also "Jo: Somers his booke". Armorial bookplate (after 1754): Philip, Earl of Hardwicke. [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754. Also used in books acquired by his successors]. Binding: Seventeenth-century sheep (scuffed and stained); double blind fillet border; rebacked with new spine-label: Bacon's Sylva sylvarum. Endpapers torn and partly repaired.
Makers and roles
Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (1561 - 1626) Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) William Rawley (1588-1667)