The first collected edition of Francis Bacon’s works. Folio. Complete with half-title and frontispiece. Frontspiece portrait of Bacon. Title page printed in black and red. Bound in contemporary blindstamped vellum, manuscript title to spine. All edges speckled.
 
A very good copy. The binding is a little dusty and stained. Generally very good internally, but some leaves quite tanned.
 
The first collected edition of Bacon’s work, prefaced by a life of Bacon by William Rawley. It includes Novum Organum Scientiarum; Sermones Fideles (the Essays); Nova Atlantis; De Dignitate & Augmentis Scientiarum; and De Sapientia Veterum.