Shelfmark
Iaa4.5.09
Author
Title
Pseudodoxia epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths. By Thomas Brown Dr. of Physick. The fifth edition. With some marginal observations, and a table alphabetical. Whereunto are now added two discourses the one of Urn-burial, or sepulchrall urns, lately found in Norfolk. The other of the Garden of Cyrus, or network plantations of the antients. Both newly written by the same author.
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths
Publication, distribution, etc.
London, : Printed for the assigns of Edward Dod, 1669.
Physical description
[14], 192, 203-322, 309-414 [18]; [8] 70 p., [3] leaves of plates ; 4to.
Note
Head- and tail-pieces, initials, printed marginal notes.
Note
All printed pages of Pseudodoxia enclosed in a plain rule-border; the other works printed in double columns. 'Hydriotaphia' and 'The garden of Cyrus' have separate title-pages, and a new pagination and register.
Note
Title-page of 'Hydriotaphia': Hydriotaphia, urn-burial; or, a discourse of the sepulchral urns lately found in Norfolk. Together with The garden of Cyrus; or, the quincuncial lozenge, or net-work plantations of the ancients, artificially, naturally, mystically considerd: with sundry observations. / By Thomas Browne, Dr of Physick. -- London, : Printed for Henry Brome, at the Star in Little-Britain, 1669.
Note
Title-page for The garden of Cyrus gives an imprint date of 1668.
Citation/references note
Keynes, Browne, 78
Citation/references note
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), B5164
Citation/references note
ESTC, R19506
Citation/references note
Quarrie, Eton 1440-1990, p. 32.
Citation/references note
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), B5154A (Hydriotaphia)
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Madelene, Lady Agnew (1796-1858), wife of Sir Andrew Agnew, 7th baronet of Lochnaw. The bookplate bears the inscription DCA Agnew, 1858, presumably Lady Agnew's third son, David Carnegie Andrew Agnew.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Henry Babington Smith (1863-1923).
Provenance
Bookplate recording donation to Eton College by David Babington-Smith.
Provenance
Book label of Eton College Library.
Provenance
Ownership inscription on front flyleaf: H Babington Smith, Jan 1911.
Binding
Contemporary mid brown sprinkled calf; blind tooled double fillet frame with ornaments at each corner; rebacked in 20th century red brown leather; gold tooled letters on spine; red sprinkled edges; 19th or 20th century endpapers.
Copy-specific note
Lacks first plate (frontispiece portrait of the author). Two plates are bound in between the table of contents and the main text of Pseudodoxia.
Subject
Common fallacies Early works to 1800.
Subject
Natural history Pre-Linnean works.
Added entry--name
Ekins, Nathaniel publisher.
Added entry--name
Smith, Henry Babington, 1863 - 1923 Former owner.
Added entry--title
Religio Medici.
Added entry--title
Hydriotaphia.
Added entry--title
Garden of Cyrus.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B39356