- 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)
