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Sir Francis (lord Verulam & Viscount St Albans) Bacon

Male : Statesman, philosopher and essayist. Inherited Gorhambury estate in Hertfordshire in 1601 from his elder brother
Nationality : English Place of Birth : London

Date of Birth : 1561 Date of Death : 1626 Age : 65

Other Work : MP for Taunton, Liverpool, Middlesex & Southampton. Barrister 1582

Education : Trinity College, Cambridge (aged 13)
16thC
Temporis Partus Maximus
(Greatest Birth of Time)
Essays
(1597 Richard Serger) - pirate edition
(1597 Humphrey Cooper)
A Declaration of the Practices and Treasons of the Earl of Essex
Apologie

1600-1625
Two Books of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning
(1605 Richard Ockhould)
(1623 Trans into Latin)
With references to Catholicism deleted
(1640 Oxford)
Cogita et Visa
(1607)
The Wisdom of the Ancients
(1609) (1619)
Instauratio Magna
(1620)
Novum Organum
(1620) (1850 Pickering)
The Histories of the Raigne of King Henry VII
(1622 Stansby for Lownes & Barret, London)
Offered in 1999 for £395
History of Life and Death
(1623)
Essays
(1625)

1626-1640
Naturall History
(1626 Wm Lee, London)
New Atlantis
(1627)
[In this work he sets out an outline for a national museum of science and art]
Certaine Miscellany Works
(1629 I Haviland for Humphrey Robinson, London)
Offered in 1998 for £600
Two Books of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning
(1633 for Thomas Huggins, Oxford. 3rd Ed)
History Natural & Experimental, of Life and Death, or of the Prolongation of Life
(1638 John Haviland for Wm Lee & Humphrey Moseley)
Offered in 1992 for £330
The Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Morall
(1639 John Beale, London. 4th Ed)
The Elements of the Common Lavves of England
(1639 London. 3rd Ed)
Certain Considerations touching the better Pacification and Edification of the Church of England
(1640)
Of the Advancement & Proficiencie of Learning
(1640 Leon Lichfield, Oxford) - 1st complete Ed
Offered in 1992 for £525
Cases of Treason
(1641 John More, London)

1651-1700
Sylva Sylvarum, or a Naturall History
(1651 JF for Wm Lee, London)
The Naturall and Experimental History of Winds
(1653)
Of the Advancement and Proficiencie of Learning
(1674 Thomas Williams, London) - 1st Watts Ed
Baconiana, or Certain Genuine Remains
(1679 JD for Richard Chiswell, London)
Apothegems
Sylva Sylvarum or a Natural History in Ten Centuries
(1683 London)
Essays or Counsels, Civil & Moral .. with a Table of the Colours of Good & Evil
(1691 A Swall, London)

1701-1800
Letters ... Now Collected & Augmented
(1702 for Benj. Tooke, London)
Essays or Councils Civil & Moral, with a Table of the Colours of Good & Evil
(1718 for J Walthoe, London)
Lord Bacon's Essays, or Counsels Moral & Civil
(1720 Henry Parson, London) - 2 vols
The Works : Prefixed by a New Life of the Author by Mr Mallett
(1740 Miller, London) - 4 vols
Letters, Speeches, Charges, Advices, &c
(1763 for Andrew Millar, London)
The Works
(1765 ptd for A Millar) - 5 vols

19thC
Works
(1857-74) - 14 vols. Edited by J Spedding, R L Ellis & D D Heath

AFTER 1901
Of Gardens : An Essay
(1902 Eragny Press, London) - Ltd Ed 226
Essayes; Religious Meditations; Places of Perswasion & Disswasion
(1924 Etchells & Macdonald) - 975
Of Gardens
(1928 Swan Press, Chelsea) - 100
The Essays or Counsels Civill & Morall
(1944 Ltd Eds Club, NY)
- 1100 signed by designer Bruce Rogers

READING
John Nichol : Francis Bacon - His Life & Philosophy
(1888-9 Edinburgh) - 2 vols
W F C Wigston : Francis Bacon - Poet, Prophet, Philosopher versus Phantom Captain
Shakespeare the Rosicrucian Mask
(1891 London)
Charles P Bowditch : The Connection of Francis Bacon with the First Folio of Shakespeare's Plays
and with the Books on Cipher of His Time
(1910 CUP)
R W Gibson : Francis Bacon - A Bibliography of His Works
(1950-9 Scrivener Press, Oxford) - 2 vols
Michael Peppiatt : Francis Bacon
(1996 Weidenfeld £20)

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