Iaa4.5.03
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.
London, : Printed for Tho. Basset, Ric. Chiswell, Tho. Sawbridge, Charles Mearn, and Charles Brome., MDCLXXXVI. [1686]
[20], 316, [26], 102, [8], 52, [6], 68, 99-103, [5] p. : ill., port. ; fol.
With indexes.
Text continuous despite pagination.
Signatures: pi² A⁴ (a)⁴ B-4D⁴ 4E².
Engraved full-page illustration within text, depicting 4 urns (3L4v).
Title page vignettes; head-pieces and initials; printed marginalia.
With engraved frontispiece portrait of the author (leaf pi1), signed "R. White sculpsit".
Title page printed in red and black, enclosed within double line border.
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.
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.
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), B5150
ESTC, R19807
Keynes, Bibliography of Thomas Browne, 201
Quarrie, Eton 1440-1990, p. 32.
Ownership inscription on t.p.: John Leslie.
Ownership inscription on t.p.: Charles Caulfield. June 1755.
Contemporary sprinkled calf; blind tooled triple fillet frames; corners and spine reinforced with damaged deep red leather; marbled edges.
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.
Scott, Robert, ? - d. 1710? printer.
White, Robert, 1645 - 1703 engraver.
Brome, Charles, fl. 1687 - 1711 publisher.
Mearne, Charles publisher.
Sawbridge, Thomas publisher.
Chiswell, Richard publisher.
Bassett, Thomas (Bookseller), publisher.
Smith, Henry Babington, 1863 - 1923 former owner.
England London.
B39235