The Essayes or Counsels Civill and Morall of Francis Bacon, Lo: Vervlam, Viscount St. Alban. First Published in 1597, Newly written in 1625. And now Edited by Walter Worrall with an Introduction by Oliphant Smeaton.

The Essayes or Counsels Civill and Morall of Francis Bacon, Lo: Vervlam, Viscount St. Alban. First Published in 1597, Newly written in 1625. And now Edited by Walter Worrall with an Introduction by Oliphant Smeaton.

Author: Francis Bacon (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) Worrall, Walter (Ed.)

8vo.(5.25" x 8")1900. Francis Bacon, Worrall, Walter (Ed.). New York, London E.P. Dutton & Co., J.M. Dent & Co. Half brown polished calf with corners, blindstamp rule to all leather edge, over marbled boards. Spine with five gilt decorated raise bands, gilt author/title to gilt rule framed red leather to second compartment, gilt rule frames with fancy gilt floral corners and centered gilt floral device to all other compartments, fancy gilt rule to head and foot of spine. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed, head of spine chipped with some loss. Leather lightly scuffed to covers, bands, and foot of spine. Prior owners names/dates to reverse of first free endpaper, first free flyleaf. Engraved portrait of Bacon as frontispiece, title page in red and black ink. Five additional engraved plates throughout. Red initial caps and footers throughout. Truly a beautiful book.

From Wiki: Essayes: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed (1597) was the first published book by the philosopher, statesman and jurist Francis Bacon. 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 another. While the original edition included 10 essays, a much-enlarged second edition appeared in 1612 with 38. Another, under the title Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, was published in 1625 with 58 essays. Translations into French and Italian appeared during Bacon's lifetime. In Bacon's Essay, "Of Plantations" published in 1625, he relates planting colonies to war. He states that such plantations should be governed by those with a commission or authority to exercise martial law.

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author, and pioneer of the scientific method. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution. Bacon has been called the creator of empiricism. His works established and popularized inductive methodologies for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method, or simply the Scientific Method. His demand for a planned procedure of investigating all things natural marked a new turn in the rhetorical and theoretical framework for science, much of which still surrounds conceptions of proper methodology today.

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