Shelfmark
Iaa4.5.02 (Copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Iaa4.5.03 (Copy 2)
Additional shelfmark
Ge.3.10 (Copy 3)
Author
Title
The works of the learned Sr Thomas Brown, Kt. Doctor of Physick, late of Norwich. : Containing I. Enquiries into vulgar and common errors. II. Religio medici: with annotations and observations upon it. III. Hydriotaphia; or, Urn-Burial: together with The garden of Cyrus. IV. Certain miscellany tracts. With alphabetical tables.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London, : Printed for Tho. Basset, Ric. Chiswell, Tho. Sawbridge, Charles Mearn, and Charles Brome., MDCLXXXVI. [1686]
Physical description
[20], 316, [26], 102, [8], 52, [6], 68, 99-103, [5] p. : ill., port. ; fol.
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With indexes.
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Text continuous despite pagination.
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Signatures: pi² A⁴ (a)⁴ B-4D⁴ 4E².
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Engraved full-page illustration within text, depicting 4 urns (3L4v).
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Title page vignettes; head-pieces and initials; printed marginalia.
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With engraved frontispiece portrait of the author (leaf pi1), signed "R. White sculpsit".
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Title page printed in red and black, enclosed within double line border.
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First collected edition; each part has separate title page and pagination. "Pseudodoxia epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received tenents and commonly presumed truths" with own t.p.on A1, dated 1686; "Religio medici. The eighth edition ..." with own t.p. dated 1685 on 2U1; "Observations upon Religio medici. Occasionally written by Sir Kenelm Digby" with t.p. dated 1686, and imprint "... for Robert Scott, Thomas Basset, Richard Chiswell, and the executor of John Wright", pagination and signatures continuous; "Hydriotaphia, Urn-burial, or, A discourse of the sepulchral urns lately found in Norfolk. Together with the Garden of Cyprus ...", with t.p. date 1686, own pagination, continuous signatures; "Certain miscellany tracts", with t.p. dated 1686, own pagination, continuous signatures.
Formatted contents note
Contents: I. Enquiries into vulgar and common errors. -- II. Religio Medici : with annotations and observations upon it. -- III. Hydriotaphia : or, Urn burial : together with The Garden of Cyrus. -- IV. Certain miscellany tracts.
Citation/references note
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), B5150
Citation/references note
ESTC, R19807
Citation/references note
Keynes, Bibliography of Thomas Browne, 201
Citation/references note
Quarrie, Eton 1440-1990, p. 32.
Provenance
Copy 1: Bookplate recording donation to Eton College by David Babington-Smith.
Provenance
Copy 1: Book label of Eton College Library.
Provenance
Copy 1: Donation inscription on front flyleaf: Ad amatum, amandum, et amabilem A.P. Stewart ex amicitia Edward Jenkins. Xmas 1867. Almost certainly refers to the physician Alexander Patrick Stewart (1813-1883) and John Edward Jenkins (1838-1910), co-authors of 'The medical and legal aspects of sanitary reform' (London, 1867).
Provenance
Copy 1: Ownership inscription on front flyleaf: H.Babington Smith. Jan. 18th 1890.
Provenance
Copy 2: Ownership inscription on t.p.: John Leslie.
Provenance
Copy 2: Ownership inscription on t.p.: Charles Caulfield. June 1755.
Provenance
Copy 3: Armorial bookplate of Edward Waddington inside front cover, recording donation to Eton College in 1731. Armorial bookplate of Eton College.
Binding
Copy 1: 19th century red-brown morocco; blind tooling on boards, spine and turn-ins, including central panel with lozenge pattern and fleurons; gold tooling on board edges; red stained edges; blue and red marbled endpapers; bound by Zaehnsdorf (binder's stamp).
Binding
Copy 2: Contemporary sprinkled calf; blind tooled triple fillet frames; corners and spine reinforced with damaged deep red leather; marbled edges.
Binding
Copy 3: Contemporary sheep with later reback; boards have three blind-tooled concentric frames, with sprinkling; board edges tooled in gold; text block edges sprinkled red and brown.
Copy-specific note
Copy 1: Occasional marking in pencil, especially in contents lists.
Copy-specific note
Copy 2: Pencil drawings on endpapers [in a juvenile hand?]; t.p. annotated in ink to give page references for contents; Pseudodoxia, book I, ch. VIII hasannotated bibliographical references in margins.
Copy-specific note
Copy 3: Imperfect: contains "Religio medici" and "Annotations upon Religio medici" only (leaves 2U1-3K6).
Copy-specific note
Copy 3: The lower part of leaf 3K6v has been damaged and replaced in ms.
Copy-specific note
Copy 3: Previous shelfmark: Ee.4.03.
Added entry--name
Scott, Robert, ? - d. 1710? printer.
Added entry--name
White, Robert, 1645 - 1703 engraver.
Added entry--name
Brome, Charles, fl. 1687 - 1711 publisher.
Added entry--name
Mearne, Charles publisher.
Added entry--name
Sawbridge, Thomas publisher.
Added entry--name
Chiswell, Richard publisher.
Added entry--name
Bassett, Thomas (Bookseller), publisher.
Added entry--name
Smith, Henry Babington, 1863 - 1923 former owner.
Added entry--name
Stewart, Alexander Patrick, 1813 - 1883 former owner.
Added entry--name
Jenkins, Edward, 1838 - 1910 former owner.
Added entry--name
Waddington, Edward, 1670 or 71 - 1731 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B39232