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Honour and Reputation) in a revised form, with twenty- 

 nine new ones, and the increase of dignity which their 

 author had attained since 1597 is duly recognized on the 

 title-page, where he is called ' Sir Francis Bacon, Knight, 

 the King's Solicitor-General/ Besides his hasty reprint of 

 the same year, Jaggard published two other editions of the 

 Essays in this stage, in 1613 and 1624, but the next 

 authorized edition did not appear till 1625, that printed 

 by J. Haviland for H. Barret, in which nineteen new 

 essays were added, and that Of Honour and Reputation 

 replaced. The title-page to this edition reads, ' The 

 Essay es or Counsels, Ciuill and Morall, of Francis Lo. 

 Verulam, Viscount St. Alban. Newly written," and as 

 representing the author's last revision, it has been taken as 

 the text of all succeeding editions. It is here reprinted, 

 with the spelling modernized, and with the addition of the 

 fragment ' On Fame/ first printed, with other of Bacon's 

 * sleeping' or unpublished works, by W. Rawley, in 1657. 



At least eight other editions of the * Essays ' appeared 

 during the seventeenth century, and although the British 

 Museum possesses no separate edition issued between 1720 

 and 1787, from the latter date their popularity has been 

 steadily increasing. 



Of The Advancement of Learning there is a shorter 

 tale to tell. It was printed for Henry Tomes in 1605, 

 reprinted in 1629 and 1633, and then as far as separate 

 English editions are concerned, suffered neglect for nearly 

 two centuries, its place being taken by the enlarged Latin 

 version, made by Rawley under Bacon's supervision in 

 1623, with the title, De Dignitate et Augmentis Srientiarum^ 

 which was even retranslated into English. In this edition, 

 it is needless to say, the book in its native language, as 



