Versions of Essays include: Essays (1597) (The first edition, containing 10 essays) Essays (1612) (The second edition, containing 38 essays) Essays (1625) (The third edition, containing 59 essays) Essays edited by Henry Morely published by Hurst & Company (New York 1883) IA Essays in The Works of Francis Bacon, edited by Basil Montagu (R. Worthington, New York 1884) (transcription project) Essays edited by Joseph Devey, M.A. Published by John B. Alden (New York 1883) (external scan) Published by The Rogers Co. (Philadelphia cir. 1900) IA Bacon's Essays edited by Alfred S. West (Cambridge 1908) (transcription project) The Essays of Francis Bacon edited by Mary Augusta Scott (New York 1908) (transcription project) Essays, civil and moral in The Harvard Classics Vol. 3 edited by Charles W. Eliot (New York 1909)