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BACON, Francis (1561–1626). –– MONTAGU, Basil (1770–1851), editor. The Works… London: William Pickering, 1825–34. 16 volumes, 8vo. Engraved portrait frontispieces, plates, folding chart (pale foxing and offsetting to text). Contemporary tree calf framed in gilt re–backed in modern calf, all with original gilt spine labels laid down (except for Vol. I and II), all edge marbled, marbled endpapers, stamp signed by R. Riviere (minor rubbing to extremities, labels chipped). Presentation inscription in Vol. I to Honorable Richard W. Thompson (Member of Indiana’s House of Representatives and 27th U.S. Secretary of the Navy) from the Whigs of Hartford, Conn. (dated 1848). The New Edition is considered to be the most desirable edition of Bacon’s works.