Essays and New Atlantis. / Francis Bacon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.

Contributor:

Haight, Gordon Sherman.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Classics Club library (New York, N.Y.)

Classics club library

Standardized Title:

Essays

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English essays--Early modern, 1500-1700.

English essays.

English essays--Early modern.

Utopias--Early works to 1800.

Utopias.

Genre:

Utopian fiction.

Early works.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvi, 302 pages ; 20 cm.

Other Title:

New Atlantis.

Place of Publication:

New York : Published for the Classics club by Walter J. Black, [1942]

Contents:

Of truth

Of death

Of unity in religion

Of revenge

Of adversity

Of simulation and dissimulation

Of parents and children

Of marriage and single life

Of envy

Of love

Of great place

Of boldness

Of goodness, and goodness of nature

Of nobility

Of seditions and troubles

Of atheism

Of superstition

Of travel

Of empire

Of counsel

Of delays

Of cunning

Of wisdom for a man's self

Of innovations

Of dispatch

Of seeming wise

Of friendship

Of expense

Of true greatness of kingdoms and estates

Of regimen of health

Of suspicion

Of discourse

Of plantations

Of riches

Of prophecies

Of ambition

Of masques and triumphs

Of nature in men

Of custom and education

Of fortune

Of usury

Of youth and age

Of beauty

Of deformity

Of building

Of gardens

Of negotiating

Of followers and friends

Of suitors

Of studies

Of faction

Of ceremonies and respects

Of praise

Of vainglory

Of honor and reputation

Of judicature

Of anger

Of vicissitude of things

New Atlantis.

Notes:

"Edited, with notes and introduction, by Gordon S. Haight."--Page [1].

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Herman Potok 1948".

Contains:

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. New Atlantis.

Other Format:

Online version: Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. Essays. Essays and New Atlantis.

OCLC:

304537