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 this edition is added the character of Queen Elizabeth; never before printed in English.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English essays--Early modern, 1500-1700.

English essays.

English essays--Early modern.

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages,167 pages, 9 unnumbered pages,21 pages, 11 unnumbered pages,17-98 pages, 2 unnumbered pages,99-114 pages, 8 unnumbered pages ; 8⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed by E. Holt for Timothy Childe, at the White Hart at the West End of St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1701.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

The 'Table of the colours' has separate pagination; 'The wisdom of the ancients', which is translated by Sir Arthur Gorges, has separate pagination and titlepage; register is continuous.

With four final advertisement leaves.

One of six imprint variants of this edition.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N9113.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.