Essays

Item author: Francis Bacon
Item date: 1680
Grant Value: 7 17s 6d
Item cost pre-decimal: 7 17s 6d
Item date acquired: 1936
Item institution: British Library
Town/City: London

3 English bindings of the early restoration period, in the sombre style, blind tooled with black edges; other 2 books were Eikon Basilikon of 1649 and a Bible & Psalter of 1660; illustrated as plate II of AR

Item Provenance
Lieut.Col WE Mosss sale, Sothebys