Certaine considerations touching the better pacification and edification of the Church of England: dedicated to his most Excellent Maiestie.

Anonymous. By Francis Bacon.

Printer's name from STC.

Signatures: A-E⁴.

The first leaf is blank.

Running title reads: Certaine considerations touching the Church of England.

Quires A-D are in the same typesetting as the state with imprint lacking Purfoot's initials. Sheet E has only outer forme printed; most copies are completed in MS. No more printed, as the work was suppressed by the Bishop of London. For publication history, see "The Library", June 2009, p. 119-56. Copies reported as complete (STC (1st ed.) 1119) are evidently made up from copies for STC 1119.5 or 1120.

English short title catalogue, S101545

STC (2nd ed.), 1118.5

Gibson, R.W. Bacon, 73

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1979, 1991. 2 microfilm reels: 35 mm (Early English books, 1475-1640; 1505:07; 1980:10).

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1998. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books; Tract supplement ; E1:2(Harl. 5921[167])).

Title page & 14 manuscript pages which complete text Digital image. Wellington, N.Z. : National Library of New Zealand.

Alexander Turnbull Library Rare Book copy. Library copy lacks inner forme of sheet E, text completed in manuscript. Copy specific details available on request from Curator, Rare Books and Fine Printing. Binding: sprinkled calf, blind tooled, title hand-written on spine, pastedowns detached, revealing boards, sewing, and strip of vellum manuscript waste used as lining. Provenance: flyleaf signed William Carswell, lower pastedown signed "Jane ...", "William". Accompanied by slip of the Chaucer Bookshop. Donated by the Denton Family, see MS-Group-1912. Transferred from Manuscripts, 2010. Acc. 401433.

Digital images available: title page & 14 manuscript pages which complete text, Alexander Turnbull Library Rare Book copy. Details available on request from Curator, Rare Books and Fine Printing.

The Alexander Turnbull Library copy is first in a volume of 7 items. Bound together subsequent to publication.