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The essays, or councils, civil and moral, of Sir Francis Bacon ... With A table of the colours of good and evil. And a discourse of The wisdom of the ancients. To this ed. is added, The character of Queen Elizabeth, never before printed in English

by: Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626; Gorges, Arthur, Sir, 1557?-1625; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626. De sapientia veterum. English. 1696; Kenyon, George (bookplate)

Publication date: 1696

Publisher: London, A. Swalle and T. Childe

Collection: thomasfisher; toronto

Contributor: Fisher - University of Toronto

Language: English

Includes advertisements

"The wisdom of the ancients ... Done into English by Sir Arthur Gorges ..." has special t.p

Numbers 115-116 (9th group) omitted in paging

Gibson 27b

Wing B292B

RBSC copy 2: Some pages worm eaten affecting text. With the armorial bookplate of George Kenyon of Peel, Esqr. [Franks 17041]

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Notes

page numbers reset throughout book and do not always start back with page 1 - no physical pages appear to be missing.

text runs near/off top of page at end of book.