Bacon's Essays and Colours of Good and Evil de Bacon, Sir Francis - 1920

London and New York: [Printed by Cambridge University Press for] Macmillan and Co, 1891. From the "Golden Treasury" series. 210 x 133 mm. (8 1/4 x 5 1/4"). xxiii, [1], 388 pp.Edited with notes and glossarial index by W. Aldis Wright, M. A., Trinity College, Cambridge. HANDSOME NAVY BLUE MOROCCO, GILT, BY RIVIERE AND SON (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers with border composed of five plain rules and incorporating a scalloped corner configuration containing a pentagonal element, raised bands, spine intricately gilt in compartments outlined by plain and stippled rules enclosing an inner frame repeating the cover design, and, at the center, an elaborate fleuron emanating from a floral tool and punctuated by many tiny dots, turn-ins densely gilt, maroon glazed endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Engraved frontispiece in three states and the title page with the same image in a fourth, tissue guard before title page. A Large Paper Copy. ◆Spine just slightly and uniformly sunned toward… Leer más