Sir Thomas Browne’s works, including his life and correspondence Edited by Simon Wilkin F.L.S. Volume II
Publisher: William Pickering; Josiah Fletcher
Published: 1835
Place of publication: London; Norwich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 600
Description: <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Second of 4 volumes in 8vo. pp. 538 [2]. Signatures:[pi]4 a-b8 B-Z8 2A-2L8 2M4 2N1. Half morocco. Includes engraved frontispieces. Facsimile folded handwritten last will and testament of Thomas Browne in front. Advertisement for James W. Bell, Son &amp; Co. removed from volume. The item is available in MS 580 in Special Collections (Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">V. 1. Memoirs of Sir Thomas Browne. Domestic correspondence, journals. Miscellaneous correspondence. V. 2. Religio medici. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 1-4. V. 3. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 4-7. The garden of Cyrus. Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. V. 4. Repertorium. A letter to a friend. Christian morals. Certain miscellany tracts. Unpublished papers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Includes, in vol. 4, the first printing of the spurious ‘Fragment on mummies’, maliciously communicated to the editor Simon Wilkin (1790-1862) by the book collector James Crossley (1800-1883), who had himself projected an edition of Browne. Crossley’s Greek gift of his supposed discovery’ was so skillful that it has been extravagantly admired on its own ever since, with Keynes including it in his standard edition, knowingly, and half the laudatory citations on the Internet still assuming that it is genuine.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_1755175" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>