8vo. pp. viii, 287, [i]. Extra-illustrated with 50 plates, mostly portraits including portraits of Francis Bacon himself, and contemporary monarchs, statesmen and clergy (Queen Elizabeth and James I, Raleigh, Burleigh, Buckingham, Essex, Whitgift) men of letters (Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Selden) and later commentators, from Newton to Descartes. The additional plates are mostly eighteenth and early nineteenth century, but some are earlier and one or two are as late as the 1870s. Brown morocco by Bayntun, gilt, c. 1900, upper joint slightly cracked at foot.