The Essays of Francis Bacon.

New York, NY The Century Company, 1900. Hardcover Very Good-: shows very light wear to the extremities and the faintest toning to the backstrip (the titles thereon remains clearly legible); the former owner's bookplate is at the front pastedown endpaper; the half-title page has cracked and detached about a half-inch from the binding crease; the olive ribbon marker has also detached from the binding. The binding leans ever so slightly, but remains secure id ever so slightly brittle; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. A handsome copy showing mild wear and minor, unobtrusive flaws. Bright and clean for its age. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (7.8 x 5.25 x 1.2 inches). xxi, 288 pages. Frontispiece Portrait of Bacon. Introduction by George E. Woodberry. Forest green cloth over boards with gilt bands and titles at the front panel and backstrip. Top Edge Gilt. Deckle Fore-Edge. Decorated Endpapers. Sewn in Green Ribbon Marker (detached). Hardback: No DJ 'as issued'. Francis Bacon (1561-1626), was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, essayist, and author. His essays, collected in this book, cover a wide and diverse range of topics, such as Death; Revenge; Love; Atheism; Superstition; Friendship; Riches; Usury; Beauty; Anger; the Vicissitude of Things, etc. His essays are also justly famed for their literary style (remember that Bacon has often been suggested as the "true" author of Shakespeare's plays). The essays are very brief---normally, just a page to two in length. Bacon's essays are deservedly among the "classics" of Western literature, and are well worth pondering over, and reading at leisure.