TO THE KING THIS EDITION OF THE WORKS OF FRANCIS BACON, WHO SAYS, 'THERE BELONGETH TO KINGS FROM THEIR 'SERVANTS BOTH TRIBUTE OF DUTY AND PRESENTS OF 'AFFECTION,' IS, WITH HIS MAJESTY'S GRACIOUS PERMISSION, MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY HIS MAJESTY'S FAITHFUL SUBJECT AND OBLIGED SERVANT BASIL MONTAGU. PREFACE. THE Advancement of Learning was published in the year 1605. It is entitled THE TVVOO BOOKES OF FRANCIS BACON, Of the proficience and aduancement of Learning, diuine and humane. TO THE KING. AT LONDON, Printed for Henri Tomes, and are to be sould at his shop in Graies Inne Gate in Holborne. 1605. It is a small thin quarto, of 119 pages, somewhat incorrectly printed, the subjects being distinguished by capitals and italics introduced into the text, with a few marginal notes in Latin. The following is an exact specimen : HISTORY IS NATVRALL, CIVILE, ECCLESIASTICALL & LITERARY, whereof the three first I allow as extant, the fourth I note as deficient. For no man hath propounded to himselfe the generall state of learning to bee described and represented from age to age as many haue done the works of nature, & the State ciuile and Ecclesiastical; without which |