Novum Organum

No book-club question arises for a 1620 folio. The material later-state tells are the issue points above: a copy whose colophon omits Norton and whose e4 carries the errata is the second issue, however it is described. Bacon's Essayes should not be confused with this work or with each other across editions: the first is "Essayes. Religious Meditations. Places of perswasion and disswasion. Seene and allowed.", London, printed for Humfrey Hooper at the Blacke Beare in Chauncery Lane, 1597, with the colophon "Printed at London by Iohn Windet for Humfrey Hooper", containing ten essays (Gibson 1). The 1612 edition enlarges the text to 38 essays and the 1625 to 58; these are distinct editions rather than printings, and the 1612 and 1625 are routinely offered as though interchangeable with the 1597. Later Latin and English editions of Novum Organum carry their own imprints and dates.