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LOT 3114
4th December 2024
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LOT 3114
BACON, Francis. The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, of Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount St. Alban. Cambridge: at the University, 1906. Limited facsimile edition, being one of 250 copies printed from the edition published in 1625, 4to (221 x 163mm.) (Mild toning, endpapers browned.) Original vellum-backed boards, paper label mounted to upper cover (minor stains to upper cover). Provenance: H.R. Watson (bookplate to front pastedown). – And a further thirteen volumes (including ‘The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus’, 1890, 8vo, and Leigh Hunt’s translation ‘Paulo and Francesca… with Original Italian From Inferno of Dante’, limited edition, being one of only 240 copies, 1902, 4to, and ‘The Nature Poems of George Meredith’, limited edition, being one of only 375 copies, 4to) (14).
Estimate: £80 – £120
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