Resuscitatio, or, Bringing into Publick Light Several Pieces of the Works, Civil, Historical, Philosophical, & Theological, Hitherto Sleeping, of the Right Honourable Francis Bacon... According to the Best Corrected Copies. Together, with His Lordships Life, by William Rawley

London: Printed by S. Griffin, for William Lee..., 1661. Second edition, somewhat enlarged. Hardcover. Very Good. Modern calf, gilt-stamped ornament on upper board and spine, gilt-stamped lettering in green leather spine label. Complex pagination, with quite a few misnumbered pages, but including frontispiece, section titles (see below), final advertisement leaf. Text block faintly browned; contemporary ownership signatures of Henry Lynch and Mary Lynch (who dates her signature in 1723-24) on title-page, not affecting legibility. An excellent copy.

Section titles are: Speeches in Parliament, Star-Chamber, Kings Bench, Chancery, and Other-Where; Certain Treatises Written, or Referring to Queen Elizabeths Times, Being Observations upon a Libell Published in Anno, 1592; Several Discourses Written, in the Dayes of King James; A Collection of Apothegmes New and Old; Several Letters, Written by This Honourable Author, to Queen Elizabeth, King James, Divers Lords, and Others. Wing B320.