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Opera Francisci Baronis de Vervlamio ... Tomvs primvs: qui continet De dignitate & augmentis scientiarum, libros IX ..

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626, Rawley, William, 1588?-1667 · 1623 · Londini, In officina L. Haviland · 18 pictures

A 1623 London folio collecting Francis Bacon's works, with Rawley's editing, printed for the bookseller L. Haviland and aimed at scholars of science and logic. The four pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters, each an large capital I set among scrolling foliage, with one showing a bird perched in the vines. A designer could borrow the framed capital and the dense acanthus-and-tendril borders as models for ornamental lettering.

Science · Logic

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