Essaies
Subtitle: religious meditations : places of perswasion and disswasion : seene and allowed
Series: Early English books online
Publisher: Printed [by William Jaggard] for Iohn Iaggard
Published: 1612
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Conduct of life; Early works to 1800
Work titles: Essays
Notes: Signatures: A-O⁸ (A1 blank except for signature; G8 blank).

Dedication signed: Francis Bacon.

Ornamental band (cupids with hands resting on royal arms in center) at head of title.

Printer suggested by STC (2nd ed.).

Second issue of the 1612 Jaggard ed., with [G7-8] uncancelled and with H1 repeating the text contained on [G7]. For details of this ed. cf. Pforzheimer cat., no. 28.

"Religious meditations"= a translation into English from Latin of "Meditationes sacrae".

"Of the colours of good and euill" [i.e. Places of perswasion and disswasion] has separate dated title page; register is continuous.

Divided into two parts, the first a reprint of Jaggard's 1606 ed., the second containing the 29 additional essays first published in J. Beale's 1612 edition (STC 1141).

STC (2nd ed.) 1141.5
Table of contents: title: Essaies. Of studie. ; Of discourse. ; Of ceremonies, and respects. ; Of followers and friends. ; Of sutors. ; Of expence. ; Of regiment of health. ; Of honor and reputation. ; Of faction. ; Of negociating.; title: Meditationes sacrae. Of the workes of God and man. ; Of the miracles of our Sauiour. ; Of the innocency of the doue, and wisedome of the serpent. ; Of the exhalation of charity. ; Of the moderation of cares. ; Of earthly hope. ; Of hypocrites. ; Of imposters. ; Of the seuerall kinds of imposture. ; Of atheisme. ; Of heresies. ; Of the Church and Scriptures.; title: Of the colours of good and euill.; title: [Second part of Essaies]. 1 Of religion. ; 2. Of death. ; 3.Of goodnesse, and goodnesse of nature. ; 4. Of cunning. ; 5. Of marriage and single life. ; 6. Of parents and children. ; 7. Of nobility. ; 8. Of great place. ; 9. Of empire. ; 10. Of counsell. ; 11. Of dispatch. ; 12. Of loue. ; 13. Of friendship. ; 14. Of atheisme. ; 15. Of superstition. ; 16. Wisedome for a mans selfe. ; 17. Of seeming wise. ; 18. Of riches. ; 19. Of ambition. ; 20. Of young men and age. ; 21. Of beauty. ; 22. Of deformity. ; 23. Of nature in man. ; 24. Of custome and education. ; 25. Of fortune. ; 26. Of praise. ; 27. Of Iudicature. ; 28. Of vaine-glory. ; 29. Of the greatnesse of kingdomes.