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BROWNE, Thomas (1605-1682). Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, or, a Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes lately found in Norfolk. Together with The Garden of Cyrus. London: Henry Brome, 1658.
2 parts bound in one, 8o (165 x 100 mm). Two title-pages, half-title printed perpendicularly and advertisement leaf bound at end. Two engraved plates and one illustration in text. (Title repaired with a few letters in facsimile, repaired tears on A3-5 slightly affecting text, first plate trimmed within border, some mostly marginal soiling and staining). Modern green hard-grained morocco gilt, edges gilt. Provenance: Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928), English translator, literary historian and critic (bookplate), sold Sotheby's, London, 13 May 1929, lot 5 -- purchased from Blackwell's, Oxford, 10 June 1970.
FIRST EDITION, without the errata slip pasted to O6, found in only a very few copies. Browne's Urne-Buriall, along with his Religio medici (1642) display the author's luxuriant style. Grolier Wither to Prior 108; Keynes Browne 93; Pforzheimer 110; Wing B-5154.
2 parts bound in one, 8o (165 x 100 mm). Two title-pages, half-title printed perpendicularly and advertisement leaf bound at end. Two engraved plates and one illustration in text. (Title repaired with a few letters in facsimile, repaired tears on A3-5 slightly affecting text, first plate trimmed within border, some mostly marginal soiling and staining). Modern green hard-grained morocco gilt, edges gilt. Provenance: Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928), English translator, literary historian and critic (bookplate), sold Sotheby's, London, 13 May 1929, lot 5 -- purchased from Blackwell's, Oxford, 10 June 1970.
FIRST EDITION, without the errata slip pasted to O6, found in only a very few copies. Browne's Urne-Buriall, along with his Religio medici (1642) display the author's luxuriant style. Grolier Wither to Prior 108; Keynes Browne 93; Pforzheimer 110; Wing B-5154.