Bacon (Sir Francis) Operum Moralium et Civilium, first edition, first issue, engraved portrait frontispiece (trimmed and laid down), woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, blank leaves A4 & 2E6, divisional title at A5 with short closed tear to foot, 3Z6, 4K1&3 with very small hole affecting few letters, few small marginal defects, occasional tiny worming within lower margin, occasional small and light damp-staining to upper margin, some spotting, some browning, generally light but little heavier at points, contemporary calf, rebacked preserving original backstrip with ?later morocco label, endpapers renewed, [Gibson 196; Wing 1109], folio, Excusum typis Edwardi Griffini [and John Haviland]; prostant ad Insignia Regia in Coemeterio D. Pauli, apud Richardum Whitakerum [and John Norton], 1638.