The
wonderful history of the celebrated Friar Bacon
who studies the magic art, and saves a gentleman from the Devil, to whom he had sold his soul and body : he erects a wonderful brazen head, which was to enable him to secure all England from invasion, it speaks, but loses its virtue by his servant's folly : by his help France is conquered : he makes three wicked thieves, who tried to rob him, dance a hornpipe over hedges into ditches, against their wills : with many curious particulars
History of Friar Bacon
History of Friar Bacon
Friar Bacon (Long version)
McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress)
text
biography
enk
monographic
London
Printed by W. Lewis for T. & J. Allman
1829
Allman's ed.
eng
28 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : 1 ill. ; 19 cm.
A chap book probably written towards the end of the 16th cent., on which Robert Greene may have based his play, The honorable history of Frier Bacon and Frier Bongay. Cf. Little, A.G. Roger Bacon essays, 1914, p. 360-365.
Edition statement from cover.
LC copy has hand-colored ill. DLC
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Source: Gift of John J. and Hanna M. McManus and Morris N. and Chesley V. Young, Oct. 12, 1955. DLC
Bacon, Roger,
1214?-1294
Bungay, Thomas,
active 1290
Philosophers
England
Biography
Scientists
England
Biography
Occultists
England
Biography
Science, Medieval
B765.B24 F75 1829
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