Michael Kiernan is Associate Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University, and editor of Frances Bacon: Essays (OUP/Harvard, 1985)–to be reissued as Volume XV of OFB, 1999.

The OFB includes a great deal of new information concerning the history of the transmission of Bacon's texts, thanks to the progress made in Bacon scholarship ... I cannot imagine a scholar who would not give preference to the convenience and complexity of the new Bacon volumes.