Opera omnia, quatuor voluminibus comprehensa
Subtitle: hactenus edita, ad autographorum maxime fidem, emendatur; nonnulla etiam, ex MSS codicibus deprompta, nunc primum prodeunt.
Contributors: Blackbourne, John, 1683-1741; Rawley, William, 1588?-1667; Derby, James Stanley, Earl of, 1664-1735 (association); Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of, 1799-1869 (bookplate)
Publisher: Impensis R. Gosling
Published: 1730
Place of publication: Londini
Language: lat
Subjects: Bacon, Francis, -- 1561-1626.
Notes: Edited by J. Blackbourne.

Vol. 2 has imprint: Londini, Impensis R. Gosling et prostant venales apud T. Osborne; v. 3: London, J. and J. Knapton [etc.]; v. 4: London, R. Gosling and are to be sold by T. Osborne.

Includes 1 p. of advertisement at end of v. 4.

Gibson 248.

RBSC copy: "Names of subscribers" (v. 1, prelim. p. [5-8]) wanting.  Armorial binding with the crest of the Earl of Derby [James Stanley, 10th Earl?] stamped in gold on spine.  With the bookplate of the Earl of Derby (Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl?).
Table of contents: value: v. 1.  The life of Francis Bacon, by Dr. Rawley.  Collections relating to the life of the author.  Letters.  Instaurationis magnae, pars 1-2.-  v. 2.  Instaurationis magnae, pars 3-5.  Opera civilia et moralia. Epistolae.  Philosophical work: Of the advancement of learning. Miscellany.-  v. 3.  Other philosophical works.  Works moral.  Writings historical.  Works political.-  v. 4.  Law tracts.  Speeches, charges, advices, etc.  Theological works.  Letters.