FRANCIS BACON
Essays Good and Evil
1706

Francis Bacon

THE ESSAYS, OR Councils, Civil and Moral, of Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St.Alban. With a TABLE of the Colours of GOOD and EVIL. And a Discourse Of the WISDOM of the ANCIENTS.

To which is added in this Edition the Character of Queen ELIZABETH.

London: H.Clark, for R. Chiswell, S. Smith, T. Bennet, B. Walford, T. Childe, G. Sawbridge, and R. Wellington, 1706.

75/8 x 43/4 inches

'THE ESSAYS': [2 blanks]+[1 leaf title, 3 leaves introduction, 1 leaf 'Table' contents]+[167 pages].

'Colours of GOOD and EVIL': [1 leaf title, 3 leaves introduction]+[21 pages].

'WISDOM of the ANCIENTS' / 'Queen ELIZABETH': [1 leaf title/'Table' or contents, 4 leaves preface]+[101 pages]+[1 blank].

Good: Original full leather binding is worn and rubbed with bumped corners, exterior leather cracked at both joints, front cover is holding by 2 original binding strings, contemporary old doodling to inner boards. Otherwise very clean with a tight text block and light sporadic spotting and foxing.

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