Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio, Vicecomitis Sancti Albani, Magni Angliae Cancellarii, Opera omnia, quatuor voluminibus comprehensa : hactenus edita, ad autographorum maxime fidem emendantur ; nonnulla etiam, ex mss. codicibus deprompta, nunc primum prodeunt
Francis Bacon (Author), John Blackbourne (Editor), George Vertue (Engraver), Wenceslaus Hollar (Engraver), Robert Gosling (Bookseller), Thomas Osborne (Bookseller), Robert Knaplock (Bookseller), John Walthoe (Bookseller), D. Midwinter (Bookseller), W. Mears (Bookseller), William Innys (Bookseller), Thomas Wotton (Bookseller), Daniel Browne (Bookseller), William Rawley, James and John Knapton (Firm) (Bookseller), Francis Bacon Library (Former owner)
Print Book, English, 1730
Impensis R. Gosling ad Insigne Mitrae & Coronae in vico vulgo vocato Fleet-street, Londini, 1730
Sources
4 volumes ([8], 224, [8], 394, [38] pages, [1] leaf of plates; [4], 568, [28] pages, [1] leaf of plates; [6], 586, [46] pages, [1] leaf of plates; [2], 707, [29] pages, [1] leaf of plates) : illustrations, 3 portraits (engravings) ; 32 cm (folio)
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Dedication in volume 1 (2nd sequence, pages [1]-[2]) to Dr. Richard Meno signed: John Blackbourne, April 12, 1729
Edited by John Blackbourne, according to Gibson, R.W. Francis Bacon, 248
Imprint varies. Volume 2: Londini : Impensis R. Gosling ad Insigne Mitrae & Coronae in vico vulgo vocato Fleet-street : Et prostant venales apud Tho. Osborne in Hospitio Grayensi. Volume 3: Printed for J. and J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, J. Walthoe, D. Midwinter, R. Gosling, W. Mears, W. Innys, T. Wotton, D. Brown and T. Osborne. Volume 4: London : Printed for R. Gosling at the Mitre and Crown in Fleetstreet : And are to be sold by Tho. Osborne in Grays-Inn
In volume 2, leaves 7D and 7E, numbered as pages 565-568, are folded. They contain a transcription of Bacon's will
Volume 4, final unnumbered sequence, contains 29 unnumbered pages, as in Gibson, R.W. Francis Bacon, 248. (The description in OCLC no. 13621903 cites 27 final unnumbered pages.)
Engraved frontispiece portrait of Bacon (volume 1) is signed: "Geo. Vertue sculpsit."; frontispiece to volume 4 signed: "W. Hollar sculp."
Engraving also on half title page. Contains decorated initials, headpieces, and tailpieces
List of subscribers: volume 1, 1st sequence, pages [5]-[8]
"The life of the Right Honourable Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St Alban, by Dr. Rawley": volume 1, 2nd sequence, pages [3]-15
"Books printed for Robert Gosling": volume 4, final sequence, page [29]
Contents of volumes 1-2 in Latin and English; contents of volumes 3-4 in English only