Advancement of Learning (Oxford, 1640)

Title-page: Francis Bacon, Of the advancement and proficience of learning, tr. Gilbert Wats, Oxford, 1640

Dimensions: height 248 mm; width 149 mm.

Description: title on sheet held between two obelisks marked 'Oxonium' and 'Cantabrigia', with ship below; two globes in the sky from which extend clasping hands; owls holding torches beside plinths of obelisks.. Marshall sculpsit.'

Source: British Museum number: 1868,0808.3225.  Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0