Francis Bacon Aldis Wright (48 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Nice, compact edition of Bacon's influential late 16th century essays on a variety of topics, plus his 1597 study of virtues and vices, the Coulours of Good and Evil, with notes by Aldis Wright. Tissue guarded frontisportrait. Rubbing and wear to edges, previous owner's name to ffep. Mild spotting wit…

Condition: Good. 1896. Reprinted with Corrections. 388 pages. Half bound brown leather with marbled paper covered boards. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription and stamp to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumpin…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition thus, 8vo, fair to good, published in the Golden Treasury series. Burgundy leather, banded spine, soft bevelled boards with decorative grape-leaf gilt, faded spine and gilt, gilt page edges, abrasions, small losses base of spine, both boards partially detached, bi…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First printing in this format. Large paper edition, one of 500 copies printed on 29th November 1862. Title page and prelims foxed. Contemporary inscription on prelim with chocolate brown endpapers. Original green cloth with Golden Treasury series medallion stamped in gil…

Cloth Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Third Edition. 'Golden Treasury Series'. Green cloth boards with gilt ruled frame and embossed gilt design to front and gilt titling to spine. Pp xxiii, 388 + 2 pages ads; tissue-guarded title page with vignettes. A square, tight, clean copy with just a little spine bump. Contents bright an…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. The Essays are written in a wide range of styles, from the plain and unadorned to the epigrammatic. They cover topics drawn from both public and private life, and in each case the essays cover their topics systematically from a number of different angles, weighing one argument against anoth…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were eit…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 5th Edition. Clarendon Press Series. 5th ed. (1900). 376pp. Original navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind borders to front and rear covers. VG copy, binding square and tight, cloth covers clean and bright, hint of toning to spine, gilt still bright, ink ownership details on f…

Leather. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. Reprint. 1. Binding by Riviere & Son. Half dark brown leather over tan linen boards, spine in six compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in one compartment, a.e.g., marbled endpapers. . Spine and fore-edges are lightly rubbed, former…

Leather. Condition: Very Good Indeed. A very smart full calf binding of Francis Bacon's historic writings. A handsome copy, bound in full brown calf, with intricate gilt tooling and green morocco labels to spine. gilt doublures, marbled endpapers and full gilt text block edges. Within, reproductions of the essays of Francis Baco…

6.25 x 4.25", rebound in 3/4 turquoise leather; cloth, teg, 388pp with Glossary, covers a bit dull and stained, corners worn, hinges loose, first few pp waterstained, pp toned. INSCRIBED IN REAR (on recto of original endpaper) "From the library of my father, Eugene Field." AND SIGNED BY EUGENE FIELD II, who adds the date, Sept 1…

Full Morocco. Condition: Very Good. xxxii, 388 pp. Full calf prize binding with gilt crest to board and raised bands, gilt-decorated compartments and gilt-lettered dark leather label to spine; all edges gilt and marbled endpapers. Fading and rubbing to binding, with one or two small marks to board. There is a misprint in the gil…

[Philosophy] FINELY BOUND, the third edition thus. Small octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.[2] xxxii; 388 [2]. In a later binding of brown full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and gilt and blind decoration to boards, dated August 1930 in pencil to first blank. Top edge gilt, with patterned endpapers. A touch of light spot…

Reprint. Engraving on title-page, title-page printed in red and black Title-page cut a little close with text just shaved at foot, a little damage to sides and spine slightly darkened, a little foxing to end-papers, otherwise a very nice copy; book-label comprising two intertwined letter "S" surmounted by a coronet Full blue mor…