Shelfmark
Lrr.5.03
Additional shelfmark
[Another copy:] Lrr.4.05 [Provenance:] Bookplate of John Carter. [Binding:] 20th century dark blue buckram binding with gilt lettering on spine, and original grey paper wrappers bound with text.
Author
Title
The iniquity of oblivion foil'd : or, A discourse of certain copies, lately found, of "Urne buriall" and "The garden of Cyrus" by Thomas Browne D. of Physick; which (the first edition being imperfectly printed) the author corrected with his own hand; the whole palaeographically, textually, bibliophilically considered. With sundry observations / by a gentleman, lately scholar of King Henry the Sixth's foundations of Eton College, & King's College at Cambridge.
Varying form of title
The colophon
Publication, distribution, etc.
Campden, Gloucestershire : Reprinted from "The colophon" for the author, and to be had of no booksellers, MCMXXXII [1932 i.e. 1933].
Physical description
[12]p : ill., facsim. ; 27cm.
Note
Printed by The Alcuin Press.
Note
Printed in red and black.
Note
Original grey paper wrappers.
Note
ECL copy: One of 50 copies.
Note
Ms. corrections in John Carter's hand on title-page and p. [7].
Provenance
Bookplate of Eton College Library with ms previous shelfmarks and ms. inscription: "Given by the author, May 1933".
Provenance
Ms. inscription: "The Eton College Library, with the author's duty, John Carter, 1933".
Subject
Browne, Thomas, 1605 - 1682 Sir, Criticism and interpretation.
Genre/Form
Essays
Added entry--name
Carter, John, 1748 - 1817 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England Gloucestershire Campden.
Identifier
B25344