The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral, of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans.
Mount Vernon, NY: The Peter Pauper Press, n.y. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth spine with gilt lettering and brown decorated paper over boards. 228pp, (2pp). Very good. Faint edgewear. Item #39966
A tight and attractive later printing (likely 1960s vintage) of this classic, based on this publisher's De Luxe Artists' Editions --this copy with handsome 19th century 3" X 5"steel-engraved portrait of Bacon tipped to front flyleaf.
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