The wonderful history of the celebrated Friar Bacon
Subtitle: who studies the magic art, and saves a gentleman from the Devil, to whom he had sold his soul and body : he erects a wonderful brazen head, which was to enable him to secure all England from invasion, it speaks, but loses its virtue by his servant's folly : by his help France is conquered : he makes three wicked thieves, who tried to rob him, dance a hornpipe over hedges into ditches, against their wills : with many curious particulars.
Contributors: McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: Allman's ed.
Publisher: Printed by W. Lewis for T. & J. Allman
Published: 1828
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294.; Bungay, Thomas, fl. 1290.; Philosophers -- England -- Biography.; Scientist -- England -- Biography.; Occultists -- England -- Biography.; Science, Medieval.
Other titles: History of Friar Bacon.
Notes: A chap book probably written towards the end of the 16th cent., on which Robert Greene may have based his play, The honorable history of Frier Bacon and Frier Bongay. Cf. Little, A.G. Roger Bacon essays, 1914, p. 360-365.
Caption title: History of Friar Bacon.
Edition statement from cover.
LC copy has hand-colored ill.