Author: BACON SIR FRANCIS
Title: The essays or counsels, civil and moral, of Sir Francis Bacon Lord Verulum Viscount St. Alban : with a table of the colours of good & evil : whereunto is added The wisdom of the ancients .
Description: London, Printed by M. Clark for Samuel Mearne. 1680. Full Calf, Small 8vo. Enlarged by the Honourable Author himself, and now more exactly published. With the bookplate of Eric Quayle, & label of Nicholas Wall. Leaves of a 15/16th century printed sermons, used as endpapers. Book measures 15x10.cm. Collation, [8],222,[14],28,[12], 111,[3]pp. Bound in full calf. At some time the binding has been rebacked, retaining early boards, raised bands, gilt lines, leather title label. Boards rubbed, worn with loss on corners. Binding in good clean firm condition. Internally, top page edges cropped with loss of headline lettering. Pages in good clean condition. A nice copy. Near Very Good.

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