( Sir Francis) The Tvvoo Bookes of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Humane, first edition , woodcut decorative initials, lacks the final blank, and, as almost always, the two errata ff., 2 ink smudges and early ink inscription to title, occasional spotting, lightly browned, closely trimmed at head, occasionally just touching a headline, contemporary panelled calf, sympathetically rebacked and repaired, [Gibson 81; Pforzheimer 36; STC 1164], small 4to, For Henrie Tomes , 1605. The first two books of the Advancement of Learning , Bacon's first philosophical work and the only one he published in English.