Bacon (Sir Francis) Operum Moralium et Civilium, first edition, second issue title, engraved portrait frontispiece, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, blank leaves A4 & 2E6, armorial bookplate of Richard Benyon, ?17th century ink inscription "Ex dono Societae: Mercator: Ad vent: Hamburg" ["The Merchant Adventurers of Hamburg"] to front free endpaper, title with small early Greek inscription to head and tiny rust-hole affecting letter of imprint, couple small ink spots within frontispiece, first few ff. and final f. with fore-margin browned and very slightly frayed, tiny worming to lower outer corner of first c.12 leaves, some light damp-staining to foot, some browning, generally light, lacking rear free endpapers, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, spine with morocco label, some wear to covers, housed in cloth drop-front box (morocco spine labels slightly worn, small sticker residue to spine), [Gibson 197; Wing B1110], folio, Excusum typis Edwardi Griffini [and John Haviland]; prostant ad Insignia Regia in Coemeterio D. Pauli, apud Richardum Whitakerum [and John Norton], 1638.

⁂ The first collected works in Latin. "In the former edition of the work the 'Libri duo Instaurationis Magnae' was not included: but later unsold quires of the first edition of the Novum Organum, 1620 were appended to the book, and a new general title page was issued, in which the addition was recorded" (Gibson). In this copy, the title page includes the Novum Organum (second issue), but it was never added to the work.