Contemporary full brown calf. Small paper spine label. Boards
triple ruled in blind. edges speckled red. Boards and joints
rubbed and bumped. Head and tale of the spine chipped. Some
toning and browning throughout, but mainly to preliminary and
final leaves. Leaves A2 and A3 with some chipping along fore-
edge, not affecting text. A bit of marginal worming, not
affecting text. Previous owner's old ink signature on title-page
and some instances of marginalia and text corrections in the
same hand. Overall a very good copy. “Bacon’s major contribution
to the development of science lies in his natural philosophy,
his philosophy of scientific method, and in his projects for the
practical organization of science. During the last years of his
life, he expounded these ideas in a series of works, of which
the Twoo bookes was the first. The only work Bacon ever
published in English, it was later expanded and latinized into
De augmentis scientiarum (1623). In the Twoo bookes, Bacon
concerned himself primarily with the cl