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The Advancement of Learning (Everyman's Library #719)
by BACON, Francis
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
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About This Item
London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1934. Hardcover. A 1934 reprint of the 1915 issuance. An Everyman's Library edition presenting, per Donald Armstrong Ross, the ". . .only major philosophical work in English. . ." by Francis Bacon (1561-1626). The author explores aspects of learning and scientific advancement. Includes an introduction by G. W. Kitchin. Entry 719 in the Everyman's Library Philosophy & Theology series, edited by Ernest Rhys. --- In EL binding style 3 with full black cloth-covered boards and gilt-stamped spine titling; blindstamped Eric Ravilious-designed 'shell' to cover, 'E' and 'L' on Ravilious shells to endpapers, and brown topstain. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- A Good+ copy, with cover corner bump & corresponding creases to leaves, chafing to spine ends and soiling to covers, else a tightly-bound, unmarked copy though with some light age-toning to leaves.; 16mo (6 - 7 in. tall); xii, 244, 15 (ads) pages .
Synopsis
Francis Bacon was born in London in 1561. A powerful member of Parliament and lord chancellor under King James I, he was among the first of the English philosophers. He died in 1626. Stephen Jay Gould is the Alexander Agassiz professor of zoology and professor of geology at Harvard and the Vincent Astor visiting professor of biology at New York University. Recent books include Full House, Dinosaur in a Haystack, and Questioning the Millennium. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and New York City.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87941
- Title
- The Advancement of Learning (Everyman's Library #719)
- Author
- BACON, Francis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
- Place of Publication
- London / New York
- Date Published
- 1934
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