Sir Thomas Browne’s works, including his life and correspondence Edited by Simon Wilkin F.L.S. Volume IV

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Fourth of 4 volumes in 8vo. pp. 546, [2]. Signatures: [a]5 b4 B-Z8 2A-2G8 2H-2R4 2S2. Half morocco. Includes engraved frontispieces. 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 Unpublished papers. Includes, in this volume, 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. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.