Object details
Object number
3.T.6
Creator(s)
Title
The Essaies of Sir Francis Bacon
Date
1612
Medium
Printed ink on paper
Language
English
Publication Place
London
Binding Description
Tooled, with uncut edges (English, 19th century)
Description
1 vol., ([9], 241 pages) ; 15 cm. (8×)
Dimensions
15.1 x 11.4 x 1.7 cm (5 15/16 x 4 1/2 x 11/16 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Marked (on binding): coat of arms of James I
Inscribed: autograph notes of James I
Provenance
Collection 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).
Commentary
Isabella 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.
Bibliography
Sotheby, 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.
Gallery
Long Gallery
Case
Mary Queen Of Scots Case
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