The twoo bookes of Francis Bacon. : Of the proficience and aduancement of learning, diuine and humane. To the King
Francis Bacon's 1605 treatise on learning, printed in London by Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede for the bookseller Henrie Tomes and dedicated to King James. The pictures are small woodcut decorative initials: one a tall letter T framed by twisting foliage and scrollwork, another a square block of interlaced knotwork with a letter I at its centre, both set in dense black-line relief. A designer might take from them the compact geometric logic of early modern printers' ornament, with its interlacing strapwork and foliate framing that can be adapted for monograms and drop caps.
