Francis Bacon - The Essays-The Wisdom of the Ancients-New Atlantis - Spine title: Essays Civil and Moral - Edition in the series "The People's Library" - With dedications to the Duke of Buckingham & Queen Elizabeth (by Sir Arthur Gorges) - London/Paris/New York/Toronto/Melbourne, Cassell and Company Ltd., 1907 - 1st edition in this format - 332p. - Hardcover: linen binding with straight spine, front cover with a stamped seal, spine with decorative gold print - 11.70x18.70cm - Good copy: sporadic foxing spots in the text block, endpapers with strong age discolouration (text block clean), signs of wear and use. the cover, reading fold spine/front cover slightly torn at the spine head, endpapers worn through (the linen binding mesh is intact).

•      Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was the lord chancellor of England (1618–21). A lawyer, statesman, philosopher, and master of the English tongue, he is remembered in literary terms for the sharp worldly wisdom of a few dozen essays; by students of constitutional history for his power as a speaker in Parliament and in famous trials and as James I's lord chancellor; and intellectually as a man who claimed all knowledge as his province and, after a magisterial survey, urgently advocated new ways by which man might establish a legitimate command over nature for the relief of his estate. (Source: Britannica)
•      Sir Arthur Gorges (c. 1569–1625) was an English sea captain, poet, translator and courtier from Somerset. (Source: Wikipedia)

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