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Sylva sylvarum, or, A naturall history, in ten centuries : whereunto is newly added The history naturall and experimentall of life and death, or, Of the prolongation of life / both written by the Right Honorable Francis Lo. Verulam Viscount St. Alban ; published after the authors death, by William Rawley, Doctor in Divinity, one of His Majesties chaplaines ; hereunto is now added an alphabeticall table of the principall things contained in the ten centuries.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1628 Bacon
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
- Standardized Title:
- Sylva sylvarum
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural history--Pre-Linnean works.
- Natural history.
- Utopias--Early works to 1800.
- Utopias.
- Physical Description:
- [1], 258, [8], [4], 44 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. (fol.)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed [by J.H.] for Wm Lee at the Turk's Head [in] Fleet Street, 1628.
- Notes:
- There were at least 3 booksellers by the name of William Lee or "Ley" at work in London at this time. One of them worked at the Turk's Head ca. 1627-1675. Cf. Plomer, H.R. A dict. of the booksellers and printers ... from 1641 to 1667, 1907.
- Head pieces, initials are the printer's mark of John Haviland. Cf. McKerrow, no. 392.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of James Cox, 1814, thus one of the earliest books acquired by Athenaeum in the year of its founding.
- Athenaeum copy lacks original t.p., but was replaced by a handwritten t.p. with several spelling mistakes. This supplied t.p. calls work a 1st ed. Frontispiece port. is missing too. Also, p. 93-94 and 99-100 missing. P. 41-44 in New Atlantis also handwritten.
- Cited in:
- STC 1169
- Bound With:
- Athenaeum copy: With: New Atlantis, a worke unfinished / written by the Right Honourable, Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban.
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