The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England.
by Bacon, Francis
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Palm Beach, Florida, United States
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About This Item
London: J. Johnson, 1803. Large octavo, 10 volumes. Bound in full contemporary calf. Gilt titles and tooling to the spine, edges speckled. Frontispiece of Francis Bacon in volume one. With the early armorial bookplate of J. Lawson Whalley and the modern bookplate of Elmer Holmes Bopst, namesake of New York University's Bopst Library. In very good condition. I have taken all knowledge to be my province, Bacon declared He held to his course, if not beyond the utmost bound of human thought, at least to the uttermost edge discernible in his day and that, too, in every department of intellectual activity. Bacons day was, perhaps, the latest moment in history when anything like omniscience was within the limits of human attainment; even in his day, Bacons was, perhaps, the only mind that could achieve it" (Winterich, 205-6).
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- Bookseller
- Raptis Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43014
- Title
- The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England.
- Author
- Bacon, Francis
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- J. Johnson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1803
- Keywords
- The Works of Francis Bacon First Edition, The Works of Francis Bacon Set
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Raptis Rare Books
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Palm Beach, Florida
About Raptis Rare Books
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
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- New
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...