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Thank you for this useful information, Sarah, especially the good images. Re Sarah Lindenbaum’s post on the Mary Thornton copy of Bacon’s essays: Source: Offered for sale by FAMILY ALBUM in March 2020. Felton of Sutton Coldfield, a suburb of Birmingham, but whether Thornton also lived in the region is unclear. Someone traced Bacon’s outline on the verso of the frontispiece, shutting the book when the ink was still wet, and another (perhaps the same owner) noted the origins of the content of the book and the price that they paid for it on the title page. Like most female book owners featured on this website, Mary Thornton’s identity is a mystery, and it isn’t clear which other marks in the book may be hers. This together with the “Ex Dono” suggests that the book was Mary’s, gifted to her by Baugh. This 1664 edition of Bacon’s book is inscribed on the front paste-down in a rather florid italic hand: “Ex Dono Mary Thornton Rich.o Baugh.” “Mary Thornton” is echoed above in a plainer italic hand. Katherine Blount, for instance, owned a 1673 copy of the Essays that remains untraced, and at least two copies reported to the ESTC belonged to women. As a consequence, pre-nineteenth century copies frequently appear for sale, and not uncommonly does one find a woman’s ownership inscription within. An early inscription on the title page reads: “taken out of his partin of scienc 2d: 2ii–“Francis Bacon’s Essays was one of the polymath’s most popular works, reprinted in over fifty separate English-language editions from 1597 to 1800.
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