Browne, Sir Thomas

Estimate

1,500 - 2,500 USD

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Description

Browne, Sir Thomas
A true and full coppy of that which was most imperfectly and Surreptitiously printed before under the name of Religio Medici. London: for Andrew Cooke, 1643
ink, paper, leather

8vo (5 1/2 x 3 1/2 ins.; 140 x 92 mm). Engraved illustrated title-page; tiny hole repaired in outer margin of one leaf, with the blank leaf M8. Contemporary calf, gilt-ruled spine with red morocco labels; upper joint weak, lower joint rubbed. Cloth case.

Provenance

acquisition: Bent Juel-Jensen, 2007

Literature

Wing B5169; ESTC R20850; Keynes 3

Catalogue Note

First authorized edition, containing many changes to the text from the 1642 edition.