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Gb.3.01

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Francisci Baconi, Baronis de Verulamio, Vice-Comitis Sancti Albani, Operum moralium et civilium tomus. : Qui continet historiam regni Henrici Septimi, Regis Angliæ. Sermones fideles, sive Interiora rerum. Tractatum de sapientiâ veterum. Dialogum de bello sacro. Et Novam Atlantidem. Ab ipso honoratissimo auctore, præterquam in paucis, Latinitate donatus. / Curâ & fide Guilielmi Rawley, Sacræ Theologiæ Doctoris, olim dominationi suæ, nunc Serenissimæ Majestati Regiæ, à Sacris. ; In hoc volumine, iterum excusi, includuntur Tractatus de augmentis scientiarum. Historia ventorum. Historia vitæ & mortis.

Varying form of title

Francisci Baconi, Baronis de Vervlamio, Vice-Comitis Sancti Albani, Opervm moralivm et civilivm tomus

Varying form of title

Portion of title: Operum moralium et civilium tomus

Varying form of title

Portion of title: Opervm moralivm et civilivm tomus

Publication, distribution, etc.

Londini. : Excusum typis Edwardi Griffini [and John Haviland]; prostant ad Insignia Regia in Cœmeterio D. Pauli, apud Richardum Whitakerum [and John Norton]., 1638.

Physical description

[16], 176, 179-386, [16], 475, [1] p. : port. ; 29 cm. (Fo.)

Note

The words "Historiam regni .. Atlantidem." and "Tractatus de augmentis .. mortis." are bracketed together on the main title-page.

Note

The title-page to "De sapienta veterum" includes in the imprint "annuente Francisco Constabulario". Some title pages have imprints beginning with "Londini, typis Ioh. Haviland".

Note

"Historia regni Henrici Septimi Regis Angliae", "Sermones fideles sive, Interiora rerum" [from the Essays], "Francisci Baconi, equitis aurati procuratoris secundi, Iacobi Regis Magnæ Britanniæ, De sapientia veterum liber", "Dialogus de bello sacro", and "Nova Atlantis fragmentorum alterum" each have separately dated title-page but continuous pagination and register. "Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio, Vice-Comitis Sancti Albani, Tractatus de dignitate & augmentis scientiarum" has separate pagination and two dated title-pages, the first with imprint ".. Prostant .. apud Iocosam Norton & Richardum Whitakerum. .."; within this pagination, "Francisci Baconi, Baronis de Verulamio, Vice-Comitis Sancti Albani, Historia naturalis et experimentalis ad condendam philosophiam" and "Francisci Baconi, Baronis de Verulamio, Vice-Comitis Sancti Albani, Historia vitæ & mortis" each have separate dated title-page. Register is continuous throughout.

Note

Variant: issued with unsold sheets of "Francisci de Verulamio, summi Angliæ Cancellarij, Instauratio magna" (STC 1163). Some of these have the engraved title-page cancelled by a letterpress one with imprint "Londini, apud Ioannem Billium .. M.DC.XX.". This is STC 1110; ESTC 106961.

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Signatures: pi² A-2H⁶ 2I-2L⁴, 3A⁸ 3B-4R⁶ 4S⁴.

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Woodcut title-page device (burning heart); head-pieces; initials.

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Engraved frontispiece portrait of Francis Bacon within a cartouche dated 1626.

Citation/references note

STC (2nd ed.), 1109

Citation/references note

Gibson, R.W., Bacon, 196

Citation/references note

ESTC, S106899

Provenance

Inscription on recto of frontispiece: Henrici Marten. pr. 12s. Some juvenile handwriting practice on the same page.

Provenance

Booklabel recording bequest to Eton College by Nicholas Mann in 1754.

Binding

Early 18th century mid brown sprinkled calf; blind tooled triple fillet concentric frames; gold tooled wave roll on board edges; rebacked spine in sprinkled calf, late 20th or early 21st century, with red morocco spine label; red and brown sprinkled edges.

Copy-specific note

Five leaves of a manuscript copy of Bacon's 'Catalogus historiarum particularium' possibly in Nicholas Mann's hand, bound in at the end of the volume.

Copy-specific note

Previous shelfmark: Db.3.7.

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England London.

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B46948
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