Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio, Vicecomitis Sancti Albani, Magni Angliae Cancellarii, Opera omnia, quatuor voluminibus comprehensa:. hactenus edita, ad autographorum maxime fidem, emendantur; nonnulla etiam, ex MSS codicibus deprompta, nunc primum prodeunt. ... In quo continentur I. Dr Rawley's life of the author. II. Collections relating to our author's life. III. An account of this present edition. IV. Instauratio magna: pars I. sive de augmentis scientiarum. V. Pars II. sive novum organum.
Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (1561 - 1626)
Category
Books
Date
1730
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3217171
Summary
Bibliographic description
4 v. : ill., ports., fold. tables ; fol. Old Lyme park library shelfmark label: Case I. Shelf 5. Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate: 'Lyme', signed 'J. F. Badeley. fecit 1904' [i.e. Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Lord Newton (1857-1942)] (cf. Wilson & Lee ‘Badeley’ no. 119). Binding: eighteenth-century calf; double gilt fillet and blind tooled border. Rebacked; sewn onto six raised bands; gilt lettered and numbered spine labels: Bacon's Works ...
Makers and roles
Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (1561 - 1626), author