Brown sir thomas browne (2 Ergebnisse)

SECOND EDITION 1684 (first published 1683), ESTC states: "A reissue, with cancel title page, of the 1683 edition". Published and edited by Thomas Tenison after the author's death, and he has signed "The Publisher to the Reader", divided into 13 tracts. Ex library copy with 2 ink stamps on verso title page and ink shelf number, and one page stamped "reserve" and a pale ink stamp on first pastedown, these are the only library marks. 8vo, approximately 180 x 115 mm, 7 x 4½ inches, engraved portrait frontispiece, pages: [8], 1-215, [7], lacking original front and rear blanks, bound in full contemporary calf, title label on spine rubbed with loss of gilt, blind decoration to covers, marbled endpapers. Binding rubbed with small repairs to upper cover, slight wear to top of spine with slight loss to leather, upper hinge cracked, covers holding firmly, corners slightly worn with slight shelf wear to edges, neat narrow repair to outer edge of title page, neat ink name and date 1752 to top of title page, engraved portrait has tip of top corner missing, tiny rust hole to 1 outer margin, not affecting text, 2 margins have tiny nicks, occasional pale stain and fox spot, 1 small repair to a lower margin and 1 lower corner, not affecting text, a good copy. See: Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Sir Thomas Browne, page 93, No.128; James Harting Bibliotheca Accipitraria, A Catalogue of Books, Ancient and Modern relating to Falconry, page 27, No. 36; John Resler Swift, Bibliotheca Accipitraria II, Falconry published in English 1486-2000, page 64; Schwerdt, Hunting, Hawking, Shooting, Volume 1, page 85; Grolier Club, Catalogue of Original and Early Editions of some of the Poetical and Prose Works of English Writers from Wither to Prior, Volume 1, page 100, No. 109; The Carl Pforzheimer Library English Literature 1475-1700, Volume 1, page 111, No. 109; ESTC R9918. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. A collection of Thomas Browne's writing compiled by his friend Thomas Tenison (later the Archhbishop of Canterbury) after Browne's death in 1682. Tenison was entrusted with some of Browne's papers by his wife (Lady Dorothy) and son (Dr Edward Browne), from which he produced Certain Miscellany Tracts, first published 1682. The manuscript for Christian Morals was also in this collection of papers but wasn't published until 1716. According to the ESTC this 1684 is a 'reissue, with cancel title page, of the 1683 edition.' Includes a portrait frontispiece of Sir Thomas Browne by Peter Vandrebanc and an index at the rear, [viii], 215, [9], A4 B-P8, ESTC No. R9918. Second Edition. Bound in full contemporary speckled calf with blind ruled boards and compartments, four raised bands, speckled edges. Octavo. In good condition with scrapes to leather and a small 1cm hole on the front board, corners and edges rubbed, hinges cracked and some loss of leather at the top and tail of the spine, headbands still present but a little worn at the edges, pages generally very clean with occasional very light foxing and some light marks on p. 178, small binder error with leaf B8 folded prior to trimming, slightly oversized, textblock firm. Peter Vandrebanc (illustrator).…