A decorative woodcut headpiece consisting of four panels. Each panel contains a crowned royal emblem: the Tudor Rose (England), the Thistle (Scotland), the Fleur-de-lis (France), and the Harp (Ireland). The panels are surrounded by scrolling floral and leaf motifs.

TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCE

CHARLES,

BY THE GRACE OF GOD,

An ornamental woodcut initial 'T' in a square frame. The letter is superimposed over a scene depicting a scholar or author seated at a desk with an open book. The frame is bordered with a pattern of small circles.The whole body of the Natural History, whether planned or written by the late Lord Viscount St. Alban Francis Bacon, was dedicated to your Majesty in his book On the Winds original Latin: De Ventis about four years ago, when your Majesty was Prince. Therefore, there was no need for a new dedication for this Work, but only, in all humbleness, to let your Majesty know that it is yours. It is true that if that Lord had lived, your Majesty would, before long, have been invoked for the protection of another History—one involving not Nature's Kingdom, as in this work,