The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England.

BACON, Francis.

Item Number: 4030

London: W. Baynes & Son, 1824.

Octavo, 10 volumes. Bound in full contemporary calf. Gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. Frontispiece of Francis Bacon in volume one. Armorial bookplates. In very good condition. A very attractively bound set.

I have taken all knowledge to be my province,’ Bacon declared He held to his course, if not ‘beyond the utmost bound of human thought,’ at least to the uttermost edge discernible in his day— and that, too, in every department of intellectual activity. Bacon’s day was, perhaps, the latest moment in history when anything like omniscience was within the limits of human attainment; even in his day, Bacon’s was, perhaps, the only mind that could achieve it" (Winterich, 205-6).