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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE The first edition of the Essays, published in 1597, contained the following ten: L, xxxn, Lii, Xlviii, Xlix, xxvin, xxx, Lv, Li, and Xlvii. The volume was dedicated to Bacon's brother Anthony. Between 1607 and 1612 was transcribed the draft known as Harleian Ms. 5106 (never published), now in the British Museum. This contained twenty-four more essays and was dedicated to Henry, Prince of Wales, who died November 3, 1612. The second edition appeared in 1612. Omitting Lv, it contained, in addition to the remaining nine, the following twenty-nine: xxvn, xxni, xiv, xiu, Xliii, xxvi, xxxvi, XXXIV, XXV, XLIV, XLII, VIII, VII, XI, XIX, XX, XVI, XVII, Liii, xxxviii, xxxix, Xl, Ti (all of which, with some variations, occur in Harl. Ms. 5106); in, xxn, x, Lvi, Liv, xxix. Prince Henry having died, this volume was dedicated to Bacon's brother-in-law, Sir John Constable. The third edition, 1625, contained nineteen new essays: I, IV, V, VI, IX, XII, XVIII, XXI, XXIV, XXXI, XXXIII, xxxv, xxxvn, Xli, Xlv, Xlvi, Lvn, Lviii. Essay xv, which occurs in Harl. Ms. 5106, was now first published, and Essay Lv was restored. The Latin translation, though practically complete in 1625, was not published until 1638. It was edited by the Rev. William Rawley, Bacon's chaplain. Two Essays, Lii and Liii, were omitted. Numerous additions and variations were made, some of which, as helping to explain Bacon's meaning, are indicated in the Notes. The best of recent editions are those of Whately (1856), Wright (3d edition 1865), Abbott (7th edition 1886; the text is poor), and Reynolds (Oxford 1890, for intensive study indispensable). Edward Arber published in 1871 a valuable Harmony of the Essays. The standard edition of Bacon's complete works is that o...
