Description
***The description of this lot has changed***
Bacon (Sir Francis) The Remaines of the Right Honorable Francis Lord Verulam Viscount of St. Albanes...Being Essayes and severall Letters to severall great Personages, and other pieces of various and high concernment not heretofore published, first edition, title within woodcut typographic border, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, title trimmed at head, just touching border, occasional spotting, lightly browned, modern wrappers, spotted, [Gibson 218; Wing B318], small 4to, Printed by B. Alsop, for Lawrence Chapman, and are to be sold at his shop neer the Savoy in the Strand, 1648; and 4 others, editions of Baconiana, in the variant states (cf. Gibson 236 and 237a & b), small 4to & 8vo (5)
⁂ The first mentioned is rare at auction.
Lot 134
Bacon (Sir Francis) The Remaines of the Right Honorable Francis Lord Verulam Viscount of St. Albanes...Being Essayes and severall Letters to severall great Personages, and other pieces of various and high concernment not heretofore published, first edition, Printed by B. Alsop, for Lawrence Chapman, and are to be sold at his shop neer the Savoy in the Strand, 1648; and 5 others, editions of Baconiana, in the variant states (6)
Hammer Price: £350
Description
***The description of this lot has changed***
Bacon (Sir Francis) The Remaines of the Right Honorable Francis Lord Verulam Viscount of St. Albanes...Being Essayes and severall Letters to severall great Personages, and other pieces of various and high concernment not heretofore published, first edition, title within woodcut typographic border, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, title trimmed at head, just touching border, occasional spotting, lightly browned, modern wrappers, spotted, [Gibson 218; Wing B318], small 4to, Printed by B. Alsop, for Lawrence Chapman, and are to be sold at his shop neer the Savoy in the Strand, 1648; and 4 others, editions of Baconiana, in the variant states (cf. Gibson 236 and 237a & b), small 4to & 8vo (5)
⁂ The first mentioned is rare at auction.