The works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England.
Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (1561 - 1626)
Category
Books
Date
1825 - 1834
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Hanbury Hall, Worcestershire
NT 3178467
Summary
Bibliographic description
16 v.,plates : fronts., port. ; 8vo. (22 cm). Bookseller's ticket on front pastedown: Coombs, bookseller, Worcester. Endpaper pencil note: 16 vols 8/8/. Provenance: nineteenth-century round seal bookplate: "Thomae Bowater Vernon Arma" [i.e. Thomas Bowater Vernon (1832-1859)]. Binding: nineeenth-century calf; triple gold fillet and blind roll border; gold tooled spine; marbled endpapers and edges. (Vol. 1 bound upside down.)
Makers and roles
Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (1561 - 1626) Basil Montagu (1770-1851)