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The Works of Francis Bacon (1765)

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The Works of Francis Bacon (1765)

by Sir Francis Bacon

Full Title: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount of St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England

12 x 9 ½. In English. Published by A. Millar, London, 1765. Five Volumes. Complete. Sound quarter leather bindings. Expertly rebound (late 19th/ early 20th c). Five raised bands per spine. Leather spine labels. Gilt remains bright. Marbleized boards. Sharp corners. Extremely minimal wear. Non-decorative endpapers. Ex Libris of Desmond Morris on front pastedown. Text is generally quite white, clean and crisp, with only an extreme hint of foxing. Title pages in red and black. Two folding tables present (in Volumes I & IV). Frontispiece portrait of Bacon is also present. Quite a fine, and very heavy set that was especially well-preserved internally. A potential ‘frontispiece’ to any serious library. (The image of the author we included on our website is NOT in the book.)

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban KC, 1561-1626, was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific revolution. He is credited as founder of systematic scientific thinking for the English-speaking world and, with Descartes in France, stands as one of the most important scientific thinkers before Newton. "His pronouncement 'I have taken all knowledge to be my province' is the motto of his work.... Bacon made no contributions to science itself, but his insistence on making science experimental and factual, rather than speculative and philosophical, had powerful consequences."

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Inventory Number: 72150

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