Bacon (Sir Francis) The Two Bookes...of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Humane, third edition, title with woodcut ornament, ink-stamp of H.G. Doggett to front free endpaper, ownership inscription of James Marshall to head of A2 & final f. verso, title slightly chipped at edges but no text loss, E1 small paper-flaw affecting couple letters, 2O3&4 margins trimmed, the odd spot or stain, lightly browned, contemporary calf, rebacked preserving later backstrip, corners repaired, covers rubbed and worn at extremities, upper cover detached, later endpapers, [Gibson 83; STC 1166], small 4to, Oxford, I.L. for Thomas Higgins, 1633.

⁂ First published in 1605.