Download or read book The Essayes Or Counsels, Civill and Morall written by Francis Bacon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of Francis Bacon's (1561-1626) The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, a re-issue of the first critical edition since the nineteenth century, uses modern editorial standards to establish an authoritative, unmodernized text. The textual apparatus includes a comprehensive, chronological record of the substantive readings of all these manuscripts and editions, so that for the first time the evolution of Bacon's texts may be studied conveniently in detail.