The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of Learning, diuine and humane. To the King.

1605

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1605

Author:	Sir Francis Bacon
Title:	The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of Learning, diuine and humane. To the King.
Publication Location:	London
Editor:	Printed for Henrie Tomes, and are to be sould at his shop at Graies Inne Gate in Holborne
Date:	1605
Language:	English
No of scans:	346
Type:	Print

AuthorsSir Francis Bacon
Author Years(1561-1626)
TitleThe Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of Learning, diuine and humane. To the King.
Varying form of TitleAdvancement of Learning
Language(s)eng

Publication LocationLondon
PublisherPrinted for Henrie Tomes, and are to be sould at his shop at Graies Inne Gate in Holborne
Publication Date1605

General NotesTitle-page Attribution: As above
Other Copies: 49
AnnotationNames of ‘Overseers’: ‘Adam Bell, Giles Ray[…], William Clinton’, and of ‘Churchwardens’: ‘Giles Ray[…], John Dodson’ written inside back cover (17th c.)
Citation Source NameSTC (2nd ed) 1164 Dickinson, pp. 124-25

that the Bodmer holds the largest collection of early Shakespeare editions outside the Anglophone world?
that the original price for a bound copy of the First Folio when it was first published in 1623 was about £1?
that Bodmer bought most of his Shakespearean books from the American collector A. S. W. Rosenbach in 1951?
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