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BACON (FRANCIS): Opera Omnia, Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Hactenus Edita, ad Autographorum maxime fidem, emendantur; Nonnulla etiam, ex MSS Codicibus deprompta, nunc primum prodeunt.
Londini: Impensis R. Gosling..., 1730. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. 4 volumes. Folio, pp. [x], 224 [225 - 232 Index], 394 [395 - 432 Index]; [iv], 568 [569 - 596 index], including two folding leaves (pp. 555 - 556 and 567 - 568); [vi], 586 [587 - 632 Index]; [ii], 707 [708 - 735 Index, 736 adverts], including half-title with engraved vignettes in volume 1, engraved frontispiece in each volume, contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine; binding a little dried, joints cracked (but holding), tops and bases of spines chipped, most labels missing. There is a different imprint for each volume, but Gosling appears as publisher in all of them. The edition was prepared by John Blackbourne, who prefaces his editorial work with "Collections relating to the Life of our Noble Author: Together with an Account of this Present Edition" I, 16 - 224. Blackbourne (1683 - 1741) worked as press corrector for Bowyer, and Nichols in his Literary Anecdotes regarded him as one of the most accurate ever to work in such a capacity. Blackbourne's account of his textual work certainly gives evidence of scrupulous concern for the text. He is buried in Islington churchyard, some 400 yards from Cloudesley Square. Gibson 248.
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