The  essays, or councils, civil and moral, of Sir Francis Bacon ...
Subtitle: With A table of the colours of good and evil.  And a discourse of The wisdom of the ancients.  To this ed. is added, The character of Queen Elizabeth, never before printed in English.
Contributors: Gorges, Arthur, Sir, 1557?-1625.; Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Kenyon, George (bookplate)
Publisher: A. Swalle and T. Childe
Published: 1696
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
Work titles: Essays.
Notes: Includes advertisements.

"The wisdom of the ancients ...  Done into English by Sir Arthur Gorges ..." has special t.p.

Numbers 115-116 (9th group) omitted in paging.

Gibson 27b.

Wing B292B.

RBSC copy 2: Some pages worm eaten affecting text.  With the armorial bookplate of George Kenyon of Peel, Esqr. [Franks 17041].