Bacon (Sir Francis) The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and
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Bacon (Sir Francis) The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, second edition, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, fist and last ff. blank, some light water-staining, 18th century ink ownership inscriptions, note on price paid for this copy and other notes by a John Harlocke, contemporary blind-ruled calf, rebacked, preserving original backstrip, modern red leather label to spine, rubbed, [Gibson 15; STC 1149], Printed by John Haviland, and are sold by R. Allot, 1629; Bacon (Sir Francis) The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, title within woodcut typographic border, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, with initial and final blanks, endpapers with 17th century ink notes, worm trace / small holes to outer margins, just touching encroaching on text on last few ff., occasional spotting or light soiling, contemporary blind-ruled calf, rebacked in modern morocco, gilt, [Gibson 17; STC 1151], Printed by John Beale, 1639; and 3 other editions, of the Essays (1663; 1664 and 1668), small 4to et infra (5)
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