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We recently purchased a large collection of Easton Press books to be listed in the coming weeks. Stay tuned for the chance to pick up some collectible titles. This title is featured in the Easton Press series, The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written . Published in 1980, bound in handsome Brown leather, and with a beautiful frontispiece illustration by Richard Sparks, this edition would be a worthy addendum to your collectible books library. Specifics of this series from the Easton Press website: Fully and tightly bound in genuine leather. 22kt gold accents deeply inlaid on the "hubbed" spine. Heavy duty binding boards... . Superbly printed on acid-neutral paper... . Sewn pages – not just glued like ordinary books. ...moiré endpages and a satin-ribbon page marker. Gilded page ends. ******************************************************************************************************************* "Francis Bacon (1561-1626), scientist, lawyer, and statesman, occupies a unique position in English letters. His most widely read work, the Essays, still ranks high among the masterpieces produced during one of the greatest periods of English prose. These richly condensed utterances on human life show, in the matter of conduct, something of the same stress on the pragmatic that Bacon brought to his scientific writing. Together, these great essays are a rich collection of shrewd observations about human passions and pursuits, old age, religion, death, friendship, and even the proper ordering of buildings and gardens." ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban PC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626), known as Lord Verulam between 1618 and 1621, was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I. Bacon led the advancement of both natural philosophy and the scientific method, and his works remained influential even in the late stages of the Scientific Revolution. Bacon has been called the father of empiricism. He argued for the possibility of scientific knowledge based only upon inductive reasoning and careful observation of events in nature. . . . Bacon was a patron of libraries and developed a system for cataloguing books under three categories – history, poetry, and philosophy – which could further be divided into specific subjects and subheadings. . . . He was the first recipient of the Queen's counsel designation, conferred in 1597 when Elizabeth I reserved him as her legal advisor. After the accession of James I in 1603, Bacon was knighted, then created Baron Verulam in 1618 and Viscount St Alban in 1621. . . . The above text derives from, respectively, Prometheus publishing (via Google Books) and Wikipedia. [Bacon, Francis. The Essays. USA: Prometheus Publishing, 1995]