Bacon (Sir Francis) The Tvvoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and advancement of Learning, divine and humane, first edition, variant b (with 'maniable' and 'through' and 'lights' in italic), large woodcut initials, lacking blank 3H2 and final 2 errata ff. (as often), title repaired without loss of text, trimmed at head, affecting headlines, repair to upper corner of last f. some staining and spotting, antique style calf, [Gibson 81; STC 1164; Pforzheimer 36; Grolier / Horblit 8a; Norman 97], small 4to, Printed [by Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, and are to be sould at his shop at Graies Inne gate in Holborne, 1605.