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Bacon, Francis (1561-1626) Sylva Sylvarum: or, a Natural Historie in Ten Centuries.
London: Printed by John Haviland for William Lee, to be sold by John Williams, 1635.
Small folio, added engraved title and full-page author portrait frontispiece present, typographical general title, and divisional title for New Atlantis; bound in contemporary full reversed leather with gilt stamp of a burning brazier (a lattice-patterned vertical grate with flames escaping at the top and a log below) on front board, a family emblem of Edward Phelipps (1613-1679), with a later ownership inscription of a William Phelipps on ffep; ex libris Grolierite John Camp Williams (1859-1929) with his gilt-tooled morocco book label pasted inside the front board; extensive contemporary marginal notes in several sections; the binding amateurishly rebacked, some worming to inner gutter and some blank margins along the bottom edge, 11 x 7 1/4 in.
Several sections of the text are heavily annotated by a contemporary reader with interest in a number of topics, mostly related to food. Evidence of marginalia shows that the annotator made it through the whole text, writing in English and Latin, and correcting typographical errors along the way. The largest section of notes explains the process of clarifying alcoholic beverages with egg whites, and occupies the bottom blank margin of thirteen pages.
