Very different in character, the three lots briefly described here were not among the very highest priced lots in a Forum (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) sale of May 24 – but all brought record bids.
A Francis Bacon collection included The Charge… touching Duells… of 1614. Bacon saw duels as a threat to authority and against the will of God. This work concerns a case, involving antagonists called Priest and Wright, that he brought before the Star Chamber – to see if it could “…doe any good to tame and reclaime that evil which seems unbridled”.