BACON, Francis, Sir.
Essays, or counsels, civil and moral. By Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, And Lord High Chancellor of England.
Glasgow: R. Urie, 1752.
12mo (160 × 190 mm), pp. 214, [2]. Occasional early ink underlinings, lower forecorner of final leaf (contents) torn away, no loss of text. Nineteenth-century plum coloured diced russia, spine gilt with four raised bands, red morocco label. Nineteenth-century ownership inscriptions to preliminary blank and title. A very good copy.
A nice eighteenth-century Glasgow edition of the most read work by the father of the English renaissance.
£190.00
US$377.70*
* Given as a guide only. Based on an exchange rate of £1 = US$1.987896 for the day 5 July 2008 but liable to fluctuate.
5 July 2008