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The Advancement of Learning
by Francis Bacon; William Aldis Wright (ed.)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good /No Jacket
- Seller
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Oxford: Oxford University Press. Clarendon Press Series. 5th ed. (1900). 376pp. Original navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind borders to front and rear covers. VG copy, binding square and tight, cloth covers clean and bright, hint of toning to spine, gilt still bright, ink ownership details on ffep, pencil notes on rfep, otherwise internally excellent, no dust jacket . Very Good. Hardcover. 5th Edition. 1900.
Synopsis
Francis Bacon was born in London in 1561. A powerful member of Parliament and lord chancellor under King James I, he was among the first of the English philosophers. He died in 1626. Stephen Jay Gould is the Alexander Agassiz professor of zoology and professor of geology at Harvard and the Vincent Astor visiting professor of biology at New York University. Recent books include Full House, Dinosaur in a Haystack, and Questioning the Millennium. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and New York City.
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- Bookseller
- Object Relations, IOBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023913
- Title
- The Advancement of Learning
- Author
- Francis Bacon; William Aldis Wright (ed.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 5th Edition
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1900
- Pages
- 376
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy;
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- RFEP
- The portion of the endpaper which is left loose after binding. The first loose page upon opening a book from the rear. It may be...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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