1896 - Bacon ESSAYS - Leather PRIZE BINDING Relfe Bros.

AND

COLOURS OF GOOD AND EVIL

WITH

NOTES AND GLOSSARIAL INDEX

BY

W. ALDIS WRIGHT M.A.

TRINITY COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE

PRIZE BINDING

OF

ST. JOHN'S TRAINING COLLEGE, BATTERSEA

"Abeunt Studia in Mores"

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London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd. 1896.

"Golden Treasury" series, later printing.

16mo: approx. 6¼ x 4 inches (15.5 x 10 cm).

[7], (viii-xxxi), 388 pages. Complete with half title.

 

Bound by Relfe Brothers, Ltd. of London in full blue Morocco with their binder's mark on front flyleaf. Gilt-tooled borders and dentelles to front and rear covers, with crest stamped in gilt on front. Five raised bands in six compartments with gilt rules and fleur-de-lis; red Morocco spine label with title in gilt. All edges marbled with marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt, with fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Engraved portrait of Francis Bacon on title page.

In good antiquarian condition. Some rubbing, spotting to the covers, with minor wear to the extremities. Faint tidemark to upper corner of preliminaries (possibly from the marbling to the fore edges). Binding is strong, with no loose or missing pages; text is unmarked and clean. Bookplate on front pastedown from St. John's Training College presenting this book to "C. Senior", and signed by the Principal, "H. Wesly Deaks"(?).

A very nice copy of Bacon's Essays, in a finely-bound Prize Binding.

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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626), son of Nicholas Bacon by his second wife Anne (Cooke) Bacon, was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific revolution. Indeed, his dedication may have brought him into a rare historical group of scientists who were killed by their own experiments.

His works established and popularized an inductive methodology for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method or simply, the scientific method. His demand for a planned procedure of investigating all things natural marked a new turn in the rhetorical and theoretical framework for science, much of which still surrounds conceptions of proper methodology today.

Bacon was knighted in 1603, created Baron Verulam in 1618, and Viscount St Alban in 1621; as he died without heirs both peerages became extinct upon his death.

-From Wikipedia.

One of the first teacher training colleges, St John’s college was established in 1840 at Battersea, and was taken over by the National Society in 1843. It was a residential college, and to meet the fees of £25 per year, students from poor backgrounds had to compete for a Queen’s Scholarship.
 

The recollections of a former Battersea student, a few years earlier than this recipient, paints a vivid picture of the life there:

“The word Battersea always brings up to my mind the clanging of a big bell, awakening one from pleasant warm dreams to the chilling darkness of a winter’s morning, with the black fog floating above the river, and the interior…..feebly lit up by bluish-green gas jets which fluttered and sang a doleful song. It meant hurriedly dressing in the cold, ready to get down to one’s place in the assistant master’s room or in the big theatre, ready for the Principal or Vice-Principal…to begin his lecture…The recollections of one’s training days at Battersea, and of the masters, are of arduous times veined with a great deal that was sunshiny and happy.”

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