The essays, or counsels, civil & moral, of Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban. With a table of the colours of good and evil. Whereunto is added The wisdome of the ancients. Enlarged by the honorable author himself; and now more exactly published

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  • The essays, or counsels, civil & moral, of Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban. With a table of the colours of good and evil. Whereunto is added The wisdome of the ancients. Enlarged by the honorable author himself; and now more exactly published
  • VVisdome of the ancients
  • Wisdome of the ancients.; Of the colours of good and evil. A fragment.
  • Essays
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Imprint
London : printed by Thomas Ratcliffe and Tho. Daniel, for Humphrey Robinson at the three Pigeons in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1669.
Added name
Gorges, Arthur, Sir, 1557?-1625, tr.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 De sapientia veterum. English.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 Of the colours of good and evil.; Gorges, Arthur, Sir, 1557?-1625.
Publication year
1669
ESTC No.
R233258
Grub Street ID
104830
Description
[8], 254, [12], 32, [18], 120, 119-129, [1] p. : port. (metal cut) ; 12°.
Note
"Of the colours of good and evil. A fragment." (divisional title page) begins new pagination on leaf N2r

"The vvisdome of the ancients. ... Done into English by Sir. Arthur Gorges Knight" (Wing B341A), a translation of "De sapientia veterum", has separate dated title page, pagination, and register

A reissue, with cancel title page, of the edition dated 1668, i.e. 1669 (Wing B286).