The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon
1927. This Impression. 228 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Some marginalia and underlining. Heavy pen inscriptions to front endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is very heavily dulled but remains brighter on front. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces.