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First Issue in this fine and very handsomely printed fin du siècle fine press edition of 1910, here presented in an unusually fine and handsome binding. Title-page printed in red and black, elaborately engraved additional allegorical title page, and with a number of sepia printed Illustrated head and tail pieces mounted onto the pages. 8vo, very handsomely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in full crimson crushed and polished morocco, the spine with raised bands separating the compartments, two compartments lettered in gilt, the others with gilt ruled panels and gilt floral tooling, the covers with double gilt fillet rules at the borders surrounding an inner border of a single gilt fillet ruled panel and floral corner pieces, the turnovers with gilt fillet border enclosing a fine roll tooled inner gilt border, top edge gilt, marbled endleaves. vii, [1], 71 pp. A fine copy of this important work, handsomely printed and beautifully bound.

Edizione: a scarce edition of bacon's essays by any account and this copy very handsomely bound by sangorski and sutcliffe in a binding of full crushed crimson morocco. the text is printed most beautifully on a fine, heavy van gelder zonen paper<br> bacon's genius as a phrase-maker appears to great advantage in the essays. the phrase "hostages to fortune" appears in the essay "of marriage" – its earliest known usage. there are a number of essays included here: of friendship, of gardens, of love, of truth, of great place, of nobility, of anger and of praise