The essaies of Sr Francis Bacon knight, the Kings atturny generall. : His religious meditations. : Places of perswasion and disswasion.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.

Contributor:

Jaggard, William, 1569-1623, printer, attributed name.

Jaggard, John, -1623?, bookseller.

Francis Bacon Library, former owner.

Series:

Early English books, 1475-1640.

Standardized Title:

Essays

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Conduct of life--Early works to 1900.

Conduct of life.

Meditations--Early works to 1800.

Meditations.

Physical Description:

226 unnumbered pages ; 12 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

Printed at London : [By W. Jaggard] for Iohn Iaggard, dwelling at the Hand and Starre betweene the two Temple gates., 1613.

Language Note:

"Religious meditations"= a translation into English from Latin of "Meditationes sacrae".

Contents:

[Essays]. 1. Of religion. ; 2. Of death. ; 3. Of goodnesse, and goodnesse of nature. ; 4. Of cunning. ; 5. Of marriage and single life.; 6. Of parents and children. ; 7. Of nobility. ; 8. Of great place. ; 9. Of empire. ; 10. Of counsell. ; 11. Of dispatch. ; 12. Of loue. ; 13. Of friendship. ; 14. Of atheisme. ; 15. Of superstition. ; 16. Of wisdome for a mans selfe. ; 17. Of regiment of health. ; 18. Of expences. ; 19. Of discourse. ; 20. Of seeming wise. ; 21. Of riches. ; 22. Of ambition. ; 23. Of young men and age. ; 24. Of beauty. ; 25. Of deformity. ; 26. Of nature in men. ; 27. Of custome and education. ; 28. Of fortune. ; 29. Of studies. ; 30. Of ceremonies and respects. ; 31. Of sutors. ; 32. Of followers. ; 33. Of negociating. ; 34. Of faction. ; 35. Of praise. ; 36. Of Iudicature. ; 37. Of vaine-glory. ; 38. Of greatnesse of kingdomes. ; 39. Of the publique. ; 40. Of warre and peace. ; 41. Of honour and reputation

Mediationes sacrae. 1. Of the workes of God and man. ; 2. Of themiracles of our Sauiour. ; 3. Of the innocency of the doue, and the wisdome of the serpent. ; 4. Of the exhaltations of charity. ; 5. Of the moderation of cares. ; 6. Of earthly hope. ; 7. Of hypocrites. ; 8. Of impostures. ; 9. Of the seuerall kinds of imposture. ; 10. Of atheisme. ; 11. Of heresies. ; 12. Of the Church and Scripture.

Of the colours of good and euill, a fragment

Notes:

Signatures: A-O⁸ P⁴ (A1, P4 blanks).

Printer suggested by STC (2nd ed.).

"Seene and allowed."

"Meditationes sacrae" and "Of the colours of good and euil, a fragment" (i.e. "Places of perswasion and disswasion") each has separate title page on leaf K2 and leaf M6 verso respectively; register is continuous.

Title within ornamental border.

With head-pieces; initials.

Two counterfeit editions printed by John Beale were subsequently published; the first, ca. 1617, has "Aturney" in title (STC 1143); the second, ca. 1620, has "Atturney" (STC 1144).

The "Essays" were originally published in 1597, containing 10 essays; an enlarged edition in 1612 contained 38 and the final edition in 1625, 58.

With table of contents to the essays: p. [7]-[8].

Photocopy of microfilm. (Early English books, 1475-1640)

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.), 1142

Gibson, R.W. Francis Bacon, no. 8

ESTC(RLIN), S100354

Contains:

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. Meditationes sacrae. English

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. Of the colours of good and evil.

OCLC:

1080111091