1868-1901 The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron Veralum

Description

Illustrated, Leather Binding

A beautifully bound collection of the works of the founder of empiricism, who led Elizabethan era advancements in natural philosophy and the scientific method.

Alongside Bacon's literary, philosophical, and professional works, this set includes seven volumes devoted to the life, letters and correspondences of Bacon.

Uniformly bound in half morocco.

A mixed edition set, complete in fourteen volumes. Present here are:

Volume I: Philosophical Works, Vol. I (1889), illustrated with a portrait frontispiece.

Volume II: Philosophical Works, Vol. II (1887), illustrated with a frontispiece.

Volume II: Philosophical Works, Vol. III (1887), illustrated with a facsimile frontispiece.

Volume IV: Translations of the Philosophical Works, Vol. I (1901)

Volume V: Translations of the Philosophical Works, Vol. II (1889)

Volume VI: Literary and Professional Works, Vol. I (1890), illustrated with a portrait frontispiece.

Volume VII: Literary and Professional Works, Vol. II (1892)

Volume VIII: The Letters and the Life, Vol. I (1890)

Volume IX: The Letters and the Life, Vol. II (1890)

Volume X: The Letters and the Life, Vol. III (1868), illustrated with a portrait frontispiece.

Volume XI: The Letters and the Life, Vol. IV (1868)

Volume XII: The Letters and the Life, Vol. V (1869)

Volume XIII: The Letters and the Life, Vol. VI (1872)

Volume XIV: The Letters and the Life, Vol. VII (1874)

Despite the variety of publication dates among these volumes, each volume bears the date 1889 in gilt to the back strip tail.

With the illustrated bookplate of American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie to each front pastedown. Carnegie, born in Stevenson's native Scotland, emigrated to America as a child, and was instrumental in the expansion of the American steel industry, becoming one of the richest Americans in history, and a leading philanthropist in the United States, Great Britain, and the British Empire. During the last eighteen years of his life, he gave away ninety percent of his fortune to charitable causes.