Accession number
PML 37728
Creator
Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682.
Published
London : Printed for Hen. Brome, 1658.
Notes
First ed.--(Keynes no. 93).
On O6[superscript]a-b The Stationer to the Reader.
On the last leaf (O7[superscript]a-b) Books Printed for Hen. Broome at the Gun in Ivy-Lane.
Pagination begins on B1 with page 1 and ends on O5 verso with 202 wrongly numbered 102.
Signatures" A-O⁸ - 112 leaves. Imperfect: the last leaf (08) wanting containing longitudianl label for Garden of Cyrus.
Sir Thomas Browne's reflections "on death, oblivion and immortality are for solemnity and grandeur unsurpassed in English literature" - DNB. VII, 68.
The Garden of Cyrvs ... Printed in the Year, 1658 has separate t.p.
There are two Dedicatory Epistles both dated Norwich, May 1: the first (for the first part of the book) is addressed to Thomas Le Gros of Crostwick; the second to Nicholas Bacon (grandson of Sir Nicholas Bacon) of Gillingham.
On O6[superscript]a-b The Stationer to the Reader.
On the last leaf (O7[superscript]a-b) Books Printed for Hen. Broome at the Gun in Ivy-Lane.
Pagination begins on B1 with page 1 and ends on O5 verso with 202 wrongly numbered 102.
Signatures" A-O⁸ - 112 leaves. Imperfect: the last leaf (08) wanting containing longitudianl label for Garden of Cyrus.
Sir Thomas Browne's reflections "on death, oblivion and immortality are for solemnity and grandeur unsurpassed in English literature" - DNB. VII, 68.
The Garden of Cyrvs ... Printed in the Year, 1658 has separate t.p.
There are two Dedicatory Epistles both dated Norwich, May 1: the first (for the first part of the book) is addressed to Thomas Le Gros of Crostwick; the second to Nicholas Bacon (grandson of Sir Nicholas Bacon) of Gillingham.
Description
8 prelim. leaves, 202 p., 2 leaves, 2 plates : diagram
Inscriptions/Markings
On fly-leaf: Godfrey, Bossevile, fr. ls. 6d. 1679.
Provenance
Godfrey Bosseville.
Binding
Old calf.
Classification
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Department