Essays, Civil and Moral and The New Atlantis; Areopagitica and Tractate on Education; Religio Medici
by Francis Bacon, John Milton, Thomas Browne
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Essays, Civil and Moral and The New Atlantis; Areopagitica and Tractate on Education; Religio Medici by Francis Bacon, John Milton, Thomas Browne (The Harvard Classics), Charles W. Eliot (editor). Published by P. F. Collier & Son Company, New York, 1968, 61th edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 332 pages. Harvard Classics: Registered Edition as per half-title; Deluxe Edition as per spine. Green faux leather with gilt decorative borders and colophon front and gilt spine titles; gold endpapers. Contents In mint, unread condition; light rubbing to tail of spine and otherwise fine. Essays, Civil and Moral and The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon; Areopagitica and Tractate on Education, by John Milton; Religio Medici by Sir Thomas Browne. Volume 3 of the Harvard Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot.
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- Back Lane Books (Member of IOBA) (CA)
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- Title
- Essays, Civil and Moral and The New Atlantis; Areopagitica and Tractate on Education; Religio Medici
- Author
- Francis Bacon, John Milton, Thomas Browne
- Book Condition
- Used
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- Hardcover
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- ART, HISTORY AND POLITICS, ART; LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY;
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- Tail
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- Fine
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