The Works of Francis Bacon.

BACON, Francis; Edited by Basil Montagu.

Item Number: 4312

London: William Pickering, 1825-34..

Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco bound by Bayntun Bindery. 16 volumes in 17 (final vol. bound in two parts). Gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, marbled edges. Edited by Basil Montagu. Illustrated with 2 frontispieces and 5 plates.

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).