THE ESSAYS OF BACON by BACON, Francis - 1907

George Routledge & Sons, 1910. Hardcover. Good. 1910. No Edition Remarks. 218 pages. No dust jacket. Blue and white cloth board. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1900. Book. Good. Three-Quarter Leather. 271 pages, 58 essays of Bacon, marbled endpapers, frayed ribbon marker; large 8vo, 3/4 leather/marbled boards. Moisture stain marbled boards, top gilt edge, and first and last few page margins, some wear outer spine edges of cover, corner tips, leather front has white mark, scuff and split the length of the spine, inner hinges mended with clear tape, text clean and bright, good; no dust jacket.

Cleveland: Fine Editions Press, 1111. Book. Very Good. Half-Leather. Another Edition. 207mm Tall; 8vo. Introduction by Henry Morley. xiv, 140 pages. Top page edges gilt. Wear and small tears at top/tail of spine. Two small stains on page fore-edges. Stain on back cover..

London: Arthur L. Humprhreys, 1900. Hardcover. Good. Handsome fine binding of Bacon's essays in which he holds forth on a number of topics including friendship, cunning, atheism and marriage. Square 8vo. Red and black titles. Half leather with raised bands and elaborate gilt to spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Marbled endpapers. Book marker ribbon. Light fading and rubbing to covers. Nibbles to prelims. fading to end-papers. Contents clean and prim, binding square and tight. Good+ overall.

London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1907. First edition thus. First edition thus. 12mo. Attractive full brown crushed morocco binding by Harcourt Bindery (signed in palet front dentelle) with gilt border designs on covers and spine, gilt dentelles. Slight wear to margins of spine, else near fine.

London: Humphreys, 1907. hardcover. near fine. Rubricated title. 323 pages, 12mo, untrimmed, top edge gilt. Full black crushed morocco, ornately gilt spine and covers. London: Humphreys. Near fine.<br/><br/> Early ownership name on fly-leaf.<br/><br/>