Excerpt from Catalogue of the Very Choice Collection of Books Forming the Private Library of a Gentleman of This City: Which Will Be Sold by Auction by Leonard and Company, at Their Library Salesroom on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, the 18th, 19th and 20th January, 1870 The best edition of Bacon's Works, it being a reprint of the best London edition, with corrections and some additions by the senior editor, Mr. Sped ding. The Indexes are also much more copious. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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