first edition
1740 · London
by Mallet, David.
8vo. London: A Millar, 1740. 8vo, viii, 197, [3] pp. Title printed in black and red with engraved vignette. Old calf, recently rebacked. With the half-title, and final 3pp of "Books Printed for A. Millar". Modern bookplate of Francis Martin. § First Edition. A good copy, complete and well restored. The work is dedicated to the Earl of Chesterfield. Mallet's Life also appeared in the four-volume edition of the Works which Millar published in the same year. Pp.167-197 contain "A Catalogue of all My Lord Bacon's writings, as they are printed in the edition of 1740", being essentially the first bibliography of Bacon.
(Inventory #: 123154)