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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
The Essaies of Sir Francis Bacon
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

The Essaies of Sir Francis Bacon

author (London, 1561 - 1626, London)
printer (active London, 1612 - 1643)
Date1612
Place MadeLondon, Greater London, England, Europe
MediumPrinted ink on paper
Dimensions15.1 x 11.4 x 1.7 cm (5 15/16 x 4 1/2 x 11/16 in.)
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number3.T.6
eMuseum ID721748
EmbARK ObjectID13333
TMS Source ID2300
Last Updated8/9/24
Description1 vol., ([9], 241 pages) ; 15 cm. (8×)
Status
Not on view
Web CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
BibliographyNotesSotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. Catalogue of the Choice Library of the late Edward Cheney, Esq. (London, 25-29 June 1886), lot 124.
Isabella Stewart Gardner. A Choice of Books from the Library of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Fenway Court (Boston, 1906), p. 6.
Isabella Stewart Gardner. A Choice of Manuscripts and Bookbindings from the Library of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Fenway Court (Boston, 1922), p. 64.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston: 1935), p. 250.
MarksNotesMarked (on binding): coat of arms of James I
Inscribed: autograph notes of James I

ProvenanceNotesCollection of James I, king of of England and Ireland (1566-1625).
Collection of the art collector and watercolorist Edward Cheney (1803-1884).
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the auctioneers Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London for £15 on 22 July 1886, lot 124, through the bookseller Bernard Quaritch (1819-1899), London and the scholar and critic Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908).