The essays
Subtitle: or, Counsels, civil and moral: and, The wisdom of the ancients
By: by Francis Bacon ; with a biographical notice by A. Spiers ; preface by A Montagu ; and notes by different writers
Contributors: Spiers, A. (Alexander), 1807-1869; Montagu, Basil, 1770-1851
Edition: 3d ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1859
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: English essays -- Early modern, 1500-1700.
Other titles: Bacon's essays; Wisdom of the ancients.; Counsels, civil and moral.
Notes: Book, cloth.

Bacon engraving.

"Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by Little, Brown and Company"--T.p. verso.

Holograph: Jason Niles, Vicksburg, Miss., Nov. 13th 1868.