Essays moral, economical and political.
Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (1561 - 1626)
Category
Books
Date
1802
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 3140423
Summary
Bibliographic description
xiii,[3],270,[2]p., [1] plate . port.. . 8vo.. Not indigenous. Marshall Sisson bequest. Newspaper scrap as bookmark at p.4. Pressed flower between back endpapers.. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front flyleaf: "M. A. Sisson". manuscript inscription on title page: "J[?]. Bellerby Bp. Auckland 1867".. Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf; marbled paper over boards; red spine label, gilt lettered; front cover almost detached, spine leather nearly all broken away.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust in 1978 by Marshall Sisson.
Makers and roles
Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (1561 - 1626)