INVENTORY #117693
The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St Alban, and Lord High Chancellor or England
BACON, Francis
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Vol. IV Containing: I. Proposition for compiling and Amendment of our Laws; II. Offer of a Digest of the Laws; III> Elements: Or Maxims and Use of the Common Law; IV. Cases and Treason; V. Four Arguments in Law, Never before printed viz. 1. Impeachment of Waste. 2. Lowe's Case of Tenures. 3. Revocation of Uses. 4. Jurisdiction of the Marches; VI. Draft of an Act; VII. Ordinances in Chancery; VIII. Reading on the Statue of uses. IX. Resuscitatio: Or, Treatises , &c. relating to the Union. X. Charges; XI. Speeches; XII: Observations on Libel, &c.; XIII: Report of Lopez's Treason; XIV: His Apology concerning the Earl of Essex; XV. Of the Plantations in Ireland; XVI. Advice about Sutton's Estate; XVII. Theological Works; XVIII. Remains in Quarto; XIX. Letters in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth; XX. Treasons of Robert Earl of Essex; XXI. Letters in the Reign of King James; XXII. Letters concerning the Sollicitorship.
Publication Info
- Publisher: R. Gosling; Thos. Osborne
- Edition: n/a
- Date Published: 1730
- Place Published: London
- ISBN: n/a
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- Condition: Good
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: No
- Jacket Condition: n/a
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Vol. 4 only. [4], 707, [29]p. 42 cm full leather folio. Includes frontispiece etching of Bacon's sculptural tomb. From our "As Is" shelf. Ex-library with small label on front pastedown endpaper. Boards held to book with binding tape. Leather significantly worn with tears, soiling, and bumping along edges and extremes. Pages clean.