| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owne... | Percy Wall | Francis Bacon | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Ordered Fletcher (at four o'clock this afternoo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Francis Bacon | "apophthegms" | Manuscript: Unknown, Copied by William Fletcher (reader's valet). |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Ordered Fletcher (at four o'clock this afternoo... | William Fletcher | Francis Bacon | "apophthegms" | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Francis Bacon | "apophthegms" | Manuscript: Unknown, Copied by William Fletcher (reader's valet). |
| 1900-1945 | 'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabela... | William Holt | Francis Bacon | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | William Blake, in copy of Francis Bacon, Essays: "'Villain! Did Christ seek the Praise of the Rulers?'" | William Blake | Francis Bacon | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | William Blake, in copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Works (1798) vol I: " '... I read Burkes Treatise [on the Sublime and B... | William Blake | Francis Bacon | The Advancement of Learning | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the "history of Florence"... | Sarah Scott | Francis Lord Bacon | essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Bacons essay on the idea of compleat garden divided into every month of the year [...] What beautiful essays the... | John Clare | Francis Bacon | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he... | Sir John Hammerton | Francis Bacon | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And in the garden reading "Faber fortunae" with great pleasure. So home to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | Francis Bacon | Faber Fortunae sive Doctrina de ambitu vitae | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Up and to my office; and then walked to Woolwich, reading Bacon's "faber Fortune", which the oftener I read the more ... | Samuel Pepys | Francis Bacon | Faber Fortune | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so after dinner, by water home, all the way going and coming reading "Faber fortunae", which I can never read too... | Samuel Pepys | Francis Bacon | Faber Fortunae | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read thro' that clear & candid but cold hearted narration of David Hume - and now seven of Toby Smollet[t]'s e... | Thomas Carlyle | Francis Bacon | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dipped into Bacon's "Essays"; so pregnant with just, original, and striking observations on every topic which is touc... | Thomas Green | Francis Bacon | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Lord Bacon's Letters, edited by Birch. It is grievous to see this great man, who appears from various passa... | Thomas Green | Francis Bacon | Letters, speeches, charges, advices, &c. of Francis Bacon | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Consider what Lord Bacon says: 'Sense sends over to Imagination before Reason have judged...See Advancement of Learni... | William Blake | Francis Bacon | Advancement of Learning, Part 2, P.47 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [italics]'S. Livy p.532 - Cumis, (adeo minimis etiam rebum prava religio inserit Deos) mures in aede Jovis aurum rosis... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Francis Bacon | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Bacon & Newton would prescribe ways of making the world heavier to me, & Pitt would prescribe distress for a Medical ... | William Blake | Francis Bacon | | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Francis Bacon | Novum Organum | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence to walk all alone in the fields behind Grays Inne, making an end of reading over my dear "Faber Fortunae" of m... | Samuel Pepys | Francis Bacon | Faber Fortunae | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so to Deptford to enquire after a little business there; and thence by water back again, all the way coming and g... | Samuel Pepys | Francis Bacon | Faber Fortunae | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so away home by water, with more and more pleasure every time, I reading over my Lord Bacon's "Faber Fortunae".' | Samuel Pepys | Francis Bacon | Faber Fortunae | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Francis] Bacon | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home to dinner, and to discourse with my brother upon his translation of my Lord Bacon's "Faber Fortunae" which I ... | John Pepys | Francis Bacon | Faber Fortunae | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer & Virgil - And Bacon's Natural Hist. & Apothegms.' | Mary Shelley | Francis Bacon | Sylva Sylvarum: or a Naturall Historie. In ten centuries. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer & Virgil - And Bacon's Natural Hist. & Apothegms.' | Mary Shelley | Francis Bacon | Apopthegmes New and Old | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Johnson] told me that Bacon was a favourite authour with him; but he had never read his works till he was compili... | Samuel Johnson | Francis Bacon | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710):
Notes on memory from Francis Bacon's Of the proficience and a... | Edward Pordage | Francis Bacon | Of the proficience and advancement of learning | Print: Book |