Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio... Opera omnia quatuor voluminibus comprehensa : hactenus edita, ad autographorum maxime fidem emendantur, nonnulla etiam, ex mss. codicibus deprompta, nunc primum prodeunt (v.4)
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Title: Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio... Opera omnia quatuor voluminibus comprehensa : hactenus edita, ad autographorum maxime fidem emendantur, nonnulla etiam, ex mss. codicibus deprompta, nunc primum prodeunt (v.4)
Other titles: Opera omnia quatuor voluminibus comprehensa; Works of the Lord Bacon in four volumes; Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam
Classmark: BC Gen q/BAC
Creator(s): Bacon, Francis (1561-1626)
Additional creator(s): Blackbourne, John (1683-1741) (Other)
Related people: Blackbourne, John
Publisher: Impensis R. Gosling
Publication city: Londini
Date(s): 1730
Language: English
Size and medium: 4 v
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/273667
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991018479859705181
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Title pages of v. 3-4 read: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam.
Edited by John Blackbourne.
Vol. 1: [11], 4-224, [8], 394, [38] p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: [4], 568, [28] p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 3: [6], 586, [46] p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 4: [2], 707, [27] p., [1] leaf of plates.
Vol.1 includes a general half-title to the whole work reading 'The works of Lord Bacon, in four volumes'.
Publisher's advertisement: p. [27] at the end of v. 4.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents: (from title pages) vol. I. In quo continentur I. Dr. Rawley's life of the author. II. Collections relating to our author's life. III. An account of this present edition. IV. Instauratio magna, pars I, sive De augmentis scientiarum. V. Pars II, sive, Novum organum -- vol. II. In quo continetur Instaurationis magnae pars tertia... -- vol. III. Containing, I. His Natural history. II. Physiological and medical remains. III. The new Atlantis. IV. His Apothegms. V. Essays. VI. Colours of good and evil. VII. History of the reign of Henry VII. VIII. History of Henry VIII. IX. Beginning of the history of Great Britain. X. Of a war with Spain. XI. Of an holy war. XII. The history of the office of alienations. XIII. Advice to the Duke of Buckingham, Sir George Villiers -- vol. IV. Containing, I. Proposition for compiling and amendment of our laws. II. Offer of a digest of the laws. III. Elements, or, Maxims and use of the common law. IV. Cases of treason. V. Four arguments in law ... VI.
Draught of an act. VII. Ordinances in chancery. VIII. Reading on the statute of uses. IX. Resuscitatio ... X. Charges. XI. Speeches. XII. Observations on a libel, &c. XIII. Report of Lopez's treason. XIV. His Apology concerning the Earl of Essex. XV. Of the plantations in Ireland. XVI. Advice about Sutton's estate. XVII. Theological works. XVIII. Remains in quarto. XIX. Letters in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. XX. Treasons of Robert Earl of Essex. XXI. Letters in the reign of King James. XII. Letters concerning the sollicitorship.
Gibson, R. Bacon 248.
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