Francis Bacon

The Essays, or Councils, Civil and Moral, of Sir Francis Bacon, with a Table of the Colours of Good and Evil and a Discourse of the Wisdom of the Ancients

Publisher Marketing: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Bodleian Library (Oxford)N009113The 'Table of colours' has separate pagination; 'The wisdom of the ancients, ' which is translated by Sir Arthur Gorges, has separate pagination and titlepage; register is continuous. With four final advertisement leaves.London: printed by E. Holt for Timothy Childe, 1701. [8],167, [9],21, [11],17-98, [2],99-114, [8]p.; 8 Contributor Bio:  Bacon, Francis Francis Bacon was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1909. He emerged as one of the leading painters of the 20th century during the 40s and 50s. Bacon expanded the possibilities of figurative art with a bold, expressionistic style at a time when abstraction was the dominant mode. He was also one of the first artists to depict overtly homosexual themes. He stands as a towering figure in 20th-century art, having established a huge influence on younger generations of painters. He died in 1992.