THE ESSAYS OF FRANCIS BACON, BARON OF VERULAM, VISCOUNT ST. ALBAN AND LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND; CONTAINING THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING, NATURAL AND HUMAN PHILOSOPHY, MORAL KNOWLEDGE, THEOLOGY, &C. TO WHICH IS ADDED HIS CELEBRATED HISTORY OF LIFE AND DEATH [TWO VOLUMES]

Hardcover

1787 · London

London: J. Walter, Printing House Square, Blackfriars, 1787. Hardcover. Octavo, two volumes. In Very Good minus condition. Full leather bindings. Spines brown with gilt lettering. Raised bands and gilt decorations to the spines/boards. Boards have modest wear with slight sunning to the spines and minor rubbing to the edges. Gilt scroll designs to the rolled in edges. Text blocks have all edges gilt. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedowns. Marbled end papers. Modest wear to the interiors including slight age toning and foxing. Minor erased pencil to the front end papers and very slight pencil marginalia.

CONTENTS: Vol. One, vii, (truncated)
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