New York: Printed for Dodd, Mead & Comp'y, 1904. 12mo. Full chocolate brown calf, raised bands, gilt label, t.e.g.. Small bookplate. extremities rubbed, but a very good copy. One of sixty copies printed on Imperial Japan paper, in addition to 940 copies on regular paper.
Boston: Joseph Greenleaf, 1807. xv,[3],270pp. Contemporary calf, ornate gilt spine, gilt- tooling on edges of binding. Spine lightly chipped. Attractive and very good, with the ownership signature of Samuel Putnam Waldo on the front free endpaper. First American edition and the first work by Bacon to be published separately in.....
London: Exculum typis Edwardi Griffini .... 1638. [14],176,179-386,[16],475,[1]pp. (with occasional misnumbering as per Gibson). Large quarto. Contemporary gilt armorial calf, rebacked and recornered to style at some point in the 20th century, with the original label (chipped) laid down. Lacks the portrait frontis, marginal repairs and discolorations to title leaf.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909. [2],xii,[2],631,[3]pp. Quarto. Gilt burgundy cloth, t.e.g. Many facsimiles. Footnotes. Appendices. Index. First edition, trade issue. Slightly shaken, cloth somewhat rubbed and lightly marked, but a good copy.
Lyon & Paris: H. Pélgaud Fils et Roblot, 1870. Two volumes. Handsome half calf and marbled boards, original wrappers bound in. New edition (first published, posthumously, in 1836). Spines a trace darkened, else very good or better.
Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library / UCLA, 1962. Printed wrappers. First edition. With the author's dated signature on the title. Spine sunned, otherwise very good.
