The Essays, or Councils, civil and moral

Item author: Francis Bacon
Item date: 1701
Grant Value: 1000
Item cost: Not recorded
Item date acquired: 1992
Item institution: Thomas Plume's Library
Town/City: Maldon
County: Essex

Bought together with Slingsby Bethel: The Interest of Princes and States, 1680, Cotton: Burlesque upon Burlesque, 1675; Guicciardini: Historie, 1618; Antonio Neri: The Art of Glass, 1662 and Arthur Wilsons The History of Great Britain 1653. All these books were known to have been in Dr Plumes library originally when it was established at St Peters Church Maldon in 1704 for the use of the town. Illustrated at p.24 of AR