Essays : with memoirs and notes / Francis (Lord) Bacon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626, author.

Contributor:

Cooper, Nora, associated name, former owner.

Henry Altemus Company, publisher.

Coonley Medical Institute (Detroit, Mich.), associated name.

Series:

[Altemus' illustrated vademecum series] ; [12]

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.

Bacon, Francis.

Genre:

Biographies.

Essays.

Publisher's advertisements.

Physical Description:

[2], xxiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 279 pages, 33 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 16 cm

Other Title:

Bacon's Essays

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Henry Altemus Company, [1903]

Contents:

A brief memoir of Lord Bacon

Essays

Ornamenta rationalia, or, Elegant sentences

Short notes for civil conversation

Of the colours of good and evil.

Notes:

Binding is format 2 for Altemus's Vademecum series, specifically that with square gold-ruled appliquéd color illustration on left board beneath title within ruled border (both gilt), the whole surrounded by a gilt border of flowers and rules, used 1903. See www.henryaltemus.com/series/series37.htm (viewed 7 August 2026).

Series name and volume number supplied from publisher's advertisement.

Half-title in red on illustrated architectural background; title in red within green floriate border.

Publisher's advertisement on pages [2]-[33] at end of volume.

Local Notes:

LIBRA Rare B1155 1903 purchased for the Penn Libraries from Patrick Richardson Graham in 2011. Printed card ("Compliments of the Coonley Medical Institute. Christmas 1903.") laid in.

LIBRA Rare B1155 1903 copy 2 purchased for the Penn Libraries from Patrick Richardson Graham in 2011. Illustrated bookplate ("EX LIBRIS Nora Cooper") partially hand-colored in red and green on front pastedown. Partially illegible faded blue ink stamp ("[...]. B. Cooper") on front free endpaper.

OCLC:

1610668428