124 Year Old Book

THE WORLD'S

GREAT CLASSICS

Illustrated with Numerous Photogravures,

Etchings, Colored Plates & Full Page

Portraits of Great Authors

Title-page

ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING

AND

NOVUM ORGANUM

BY

FRANCIS BACON

(LORD VERULAM)

WITH A SPECIAL INTRODUCTION BY

JAMES EDWARD CREIGHTON, Ph.D.

PROFESSOR OF LOGIC AND METAPHYSICS

AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY

REVISED EDITION

THE COLONIAL PRESS

FIFTH AVE, NEW YORK

n.d. [copyright 1900]

DESCRIPTION:

Ex-library, with stamp of COMMONWEALTH CLUB.

Hardcover, beige cloth, top edges gilt, others uncut.

Frontispiece portrait of Francis Bacon, two full-page illustrations, all with tissue guards.

Measures 9 1/2" x 6 1/4" x 1 1/2" thick; pp. xii, 476.

CONDITIONS: VG+

Cover faded, soiled/stained and have some wear, rubbed especially to extremities.

Interior very clean, no foxing/soiling/spotting/marking.

Binding tight.

Overall in very good plus condition.

NOTE:

about Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (1561 – 1626), known as Lord Verulam between 1618 and 1621, an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I,

see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon

Bacon led the advancement of both natural philosophy and the scientific method, and his works remained influential even in the late stages of the Scientific Revolution.

Bacon was educated at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge, where he rigorously followed the medieval curriculum, which was presented largely in Latin.

He was the first recipient of the Queen's counsel designation, conferred in 1597 when Elizabeth I reserved him as her legal advisor.

After the accession of James I in 1603, Bacon was knighted, then created Baron Verulam in 1618 and Viscount St Alban in 1621.

He had no heirs, and so both titles became extinct on his death of pneumonia in 1626 at the age of 65.

He is buried at St Michael's Church, St Albans, Hertfordshire.

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