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Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1844. Hardcover. Fair. Leather with gilt decorations and black pastedowns on spine. Edges worn and frayed, Pieces torn from spines, pastedowns chipped. Hinges broken or weak. Foxing. Small holes in page edges. Interiors tight and clean. 455, 589, 584 pp.

London: William Pickering, 1834. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good+. 16 vol. For pagination, please inquire. Later (mid-nineteenth century) smooth calf with twin gilt borders on each board, gilt decorations to the boards' edges and turn-ins, spines in six compartments, a red and green morocco label lettered and decorated in gilt on each spine; all edges yellow. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Bound by F[rancis] Bedford. With a slip tipped in, stating "Subscription Copy No. 454." Text in English and in Latin. Volume one illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Bacon and a two-plate facsimile of Bacon's writing; volume two with a folding chart; volume four with a frontispiece portrait, beautifully engraved, and one additional plate; volumes five, six, and seven with a frontispiece; volume eight with a frontispiece and an additional illustration: a facsimile title page of Bacon's Opera from 1623; volume nine with a folding facsimile of a letter of Bacon's; volume ten with a facsimile title… Read More