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The essays of Lord Bacon : including Ornamenta rationalia, or Elegant sentences, Short notes for civil conversation, The colours of good and evil : with memoir and notes.
LIBRA - Rare B1155 1894
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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.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 279 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 15 cm
- Other Title:
- Essays
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Henry Altemus, [1894]
- 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 1894 for numbers 1-27. 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).
- Local Notes:
- LIBRA Rare B1155 1894 purchased for the Penn Libraries from Patrick Richardson Graham in 2011. Dated 19th-century autograph ("Charles McGorwin 1895."), probably Charles McGorvin (1866-1941) on front pastedown.
- OCLC:
- 1610521593
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