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Essays / Lord Francis Bacon.

LIBRA - Rare B1155 1898
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626, author.
Contributor:
Toadvine, Mary G. (Mary Gordon), 1881-1965, associated name, former owner.
Henry Altemus Company, publisher.
Series:
[Vademecum series] ; [14]
Standardized Title:
Works. Selections
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
Bacon, Francis.
Genre:
Biographies.
Essays.
Publisher's advertisements.
Physical Description:
2 unnumbered pages, xxiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 279 pages, 17 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 15 cm
Place of Publication:
Philadelphia : Henry Altemus, [1898]
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 3 for Altemus's Vademecum series, used 1898 for numbers 1-109. See www.henryaltemus.com/series/series179.htm (viewed 7 August 2026).
Series name and volume number supplied from www.henryaltemus.com/series/series179.htm (viewed 7 August 2026).
Publisher's advertisements (16 unnumbered pages) at end of volume.
Half-title in red on scrollwork background; title in red within green-gold and orange floriate border.
Local Notes:
LIBRA Rare B1155 1898 purchased for the Penn Libraries from Patrick Richardson Graham in 2011. Dated 19th-century manuscript inscription ("Mary G. Toadvine From Elizabeth Christmas 1899.") recording the gift of this volume to Mary Gordon Toadvine (1881-1965) on front free endpaper.
OCLC:
1610533054

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