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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.
- 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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