Shelfmark
Iaa4.5.12 (Copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Iaa4.5.14 (Copy 2)
Author
Title
Pseudodoxia epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received tenents and commonly presumed truths, : together with the Religio medici. / By Thomas Brown Knight, M.D.
Varying form of title
Observations upon Religio medici
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Annotations upon Religio medici
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Religio medici
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Enquiries into very many received tenents and commonly presumed truths
Edition
The sixth and last edition, / corrected and enlarged by the author, with many explanations, additions and alterations throughout. Together with many more marginal observations, and a table alphabetical at the end.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London, : Printed by J. R. for Nath. Ekins, [and for Andrew Crook], 1672.
Physical description
[24], 440, [12]; [8], 144 p. : ill. (port. (metal cut)) ; 4to.
Note
Head- and tail- pieces, initials and printed marginalia.
Note
Part 2, "Religio medici", identified as Wing B5176 on UMI microfilm "Early English books, 1641-1700" reel 837.
Note
"Religio medici. The seventh edition, corrected and amended. With annotations upon all the obscure passages therein. Also observations by Sir Kenelm Digby" (Wing B5176) has separate dated title page, pagination, and register, with "London, printed for Andrew Crook, 1672" in imprint. According to Keynes this edition of "Religio medici" was never published separately. "Annotations upon Religio medici" by Thomas Keck and "Observations upon Religio Medici. Occasionally written by Sr. Kenelm Digby, Knight. The fifth edition, corrected and enlarged" by Sir Kenelm Digby (a reprinting of Wing D1441) have separate dated title pages (the former enclosed in a plain rule-border and with ornament) on leaves K2r and Q3r respectively within the continuous pagination and register of "Religio medici".
Note
In addition to the general title-page, there is an almost identical title-page for "Pseudodoxia Epidemica" which follows the general title page. It lacks "Together with the Religio medici" and has imprint in larger type. Keynes says it was often discarded by binders who thought it was a duplicate general title-page.
Note
The engraved portrait of the author on leaf [A]1 verso is signed: 'F.H. Van Houe. sculp.'
Note
Signatures: [A]² *-**⁴ ***² B-Z⁴ Aa-Zz⁴ Aaa-Lll⁴ Mmm²; [A]-T⁴.
Citation/references note
Wing (2nd ed., 1994), B5176
Citation/references note
Wing (2nd ed., 1994), B5165
Citation/references note
Keynes, G. Sir Thomas Browne, no. 79
Citation/references note
Keynes, G. Sir Thomas Browne, no. 10
Citation/references note
ESTC, R22807
Provenance
[Copy 1] Letter enclosed to Mr Cornish, from John Rice Byrne, concerning the donation of Joseph Napier's memoirs to Eton College Library, 23 June[?] [18]97. Both the Napier and this copy of Pseudodoxia were presumably kept in Eton College School Library; Icc4.5.12 bears a School Library shelfmark of P12 BRO 103.
Provenance
[Copy 2] Bookplate recording donation to Eton College by David Babington-Smith.
Provenance
[Copy 2] Book label of Eton College Library.
Provenance
[Copy 2] Ms. ownership inscription and initials: H Babington Smith and HBS
Binding
[Copy 1] Contemporary dark brown sprinkled calf; gold tooled roll border; rebacked with light brown buckram; title written in ink on spine; red sprinkled edges.
Binding
[Copy 2] Contemporary dark brown calf; blind-tooled double fillet border; reback with light brown leather binding; gilt spine title.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 2] Imperfect: wanting general t.p.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 2] Sales catalogue entry for this volume, source unknown.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 2] Ms. note on t.p. verso of Religio medici, signed as "Dr Johnson's Life of T. Browne", in 17th/18th century hand.
Subject
Christian ethics Early works to 1800.
Subject
Religion Early works to 1800.
Subject
Manners and customs Early works to 1800.
Subject
Common fallacies Early works to 1800.
Subject
Christian life Early works to 1800.
Subject
Natural history Pre-Linnean works.
Added entry--name
J. R. printer.
Added entry--name
Crooke, Andrew, ? - d. 1674 publisher.
Added entry--name
Ekins, Nathaniel publisher.
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Digby, Kenelm, 1603 - 1665 Observations upon Religio medici.
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Cornish, Francis Warre, 1839 - 1917 correspondent.
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Smith, Henry Babington, 1863 - 1923 former owner.
Added entry--name
Babington-Smith, David former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B39465