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Bacon (Sir Francis) The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, with initial but not final blank, 2ff. Table bound after dedication, with contemporary ink inscription to title and later ones to front endpaper, browned, engraved bookplate of Rt.Hon. Henry Hobhouse, old calf, gilt, rubbed, rebacked with gilt spine and preserving red morocco label, portions of old manuscripts on vellum used as binder's waste, [Gibson 15; Pforzheimer 31; STC 1149], small 4to, printed by John Haviland, and are sold by R. Allot 1629. ⁂ The second edition with all fifty-eight essays but the first edition also to include 'Of the Colours of Good and Evill'.