Book Details
| Author: | Bacon, Francis: |
| Title: | Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political. |
| Published: | London: M. Jones, 1807. |
| Classification: | Catalogue 01 - Literature |
| Description: | Jones's Miniature Edition - 2.75 x 4.75 inches. By Francis Bacon - Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England. xii, 184 pp + 6 pp ads + 2 pp (contents). A collection of 60 essays. Contents: Sketch of The Life of the Author, Prefatory Epistles - To Mr. Anthony Bacon - His Dear Brother, To My Loving Brother Sir John Constable, To the Right Honourable my very good Lord The Duke of Buckingham, Essays. Frontispiece - engraving of Lord Bacon. Browning of text confined to extreme margins of text and edges. Approx half of rear blank missing. Previous owner's inscription on front blank and on top of title page (small & neat). Brown marbled eps. Binding tight and sound. Bound in original full tan leather with gilt lettering on black spine label. Gilt floral decoration around margins of boards and on spine. Top and bottom of spine rubbed. corners bumped and lightly rubbed. Two very small nicks in leather at bottom of front board. Overall condition VG. |
| Book Number: | #4386 |
| Price: | € 100.00 |
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