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The two bookes of Sr. Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of learning, divine and hvmane ..

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626, Derby, Edward Smith Stanley, Earl of, 1775-1851 (bookplate), Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of, 1799-1869 (bookplate), Proudfoot (binder) · 1629 · London, Printed [by N. Okes] for W. Washington · 6 pictures

A 1629 London edition of Francis Bacon's philosophical treatise on learning, printed by N. Okes for W. Washington and held in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, with bookplates of the Earls of Derby. The pictures are the book's printer's ornaments: woodcut strapwork bands of foliage, birds and vases, plus square and tall initial-letter blocks with acanthus leaves and stylised flowers, which a designer could adapt as border strips or decorative capitals.

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