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BACON, FRANCIS, Sir. Of the Advancement and Proficiencie of Learning. [38], 60, [14], 352, 351-477, [21] pages, including engraved frontispiece portrait and pictorial title by William Marshall. Folio, 268x177 mm, contemporary calf, rebacked retaining original backstrip, endpapers renewed, top of spine chipped, covers detached, with edges worn through; early owner's notes on verso of portrait and title, repaired clean tear in I3 Oxford: Leon Lichfield for Rob. Young & Ed. Forrest, 1640
first edition in english translated from the 1623 enlarged Latin version of his 1605 treatise on learning and the organization of human knowledge; first state of the colophon leaf, dated 1639. Gibson 141a; Hofer, Baroque Book Illustration 6; STC 1167.
