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Resuscitatio; or, Bringing into publick light severall pieces, of the works, civil, historical, philosophical, & theological, hitherto sleeping, of the Right Honourable Francis Bacon. According to the best corrected coppies. Together, with his Lordships life

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626, Rawley, William, 1588?-1667 · 1657 · London, Printed by S. Griffin, for W. Lee · 36 pictures

A 1657 London folio of Francis Bacon's collected civil, historical, philosophical and theological writings, edited by William Rawley and printed by S. Griffin for W. Lee for a scholarly readership. The pictures are small horizontal woodcut head-pieces and tailpieces of interlaced scrollwork, with foliage, masks, and paired animals set in symmetrical bands a designer could adapt as border strips.

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626

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