A fine and most attractive set in original calf, presented as a prize at Trinity College Dublin in 1806 to Thomas Fowell Buxton, the abolitionist and social reformer. Buxton was at Trinity from 1803 to 1807; he evidently cared for the set as he presented it to his eldest son, the second Baronet, on 12 December 1836.

A fine and most attractive set in original calf, presented as a prize at Trinity College Dublin in 1806 to Thomas Fowell Buxton, the abolitionist and social reformer. Buxton was at Trinity from 1803 to 1807; he evidently cared for the set as he presented it to his eldest son, the second Baronet, on 12 December 1836.

This is an excellent collection of the scientific and philosophical works of one of the most influential thinkers of the seventeenth century, including Bacon's "Of the Advancement of Learning", "Sylva Sylvarum, or A Natural History in Ten Centuries", Physiological Remains, Medical Remains, Medical Receipts, Works Moral, Theological Works, Works Political, Law Tracts, Maxims of the Law, Writings Historical, Letters, Speeches, Charges, Advices, &c; "Instauratio magna", Opuscula philosophica, Opera civilia et moralia, "De sapientia veterum", Meditationes sacrae, and Epistolae.

"'I have taken all knowledge to be my province,' Bacon declared He held to his course, if not 'beyond the utmost bound of human thought,' at least to the uttermost edge discernible in his day and that, too, in every department of intellectual activity. Bacon's day was, perhaps, the latest moment in history when anything like omniscience was within the limits of human attainment; even in his day, Bacon's was, perhaps, the only mind that could achieve it" (Winterich, 205-6).