Sir Thomas Browne's Religio medici : Letter to a friend, &c. and Christian morals / edited by W.A. Greenhill.
- Thomas Browne
- Date:
- 1901
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Sir Thomas Browne's Religio medici : Letter to a friend, &c. and Christian morals / edited by W.A. Greenhill. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![phical ; in other cases the readings of B are generally (but not always) preferable. (British Museum.) C. 1643. Small 8vo. London, Crookc. No printed title-page, but an engraved frontispiece with the same device, and the following words at the foot of the plate : ‘ A true and full coppy of that which was most imperfectly and surreptitiously printed before under the name 0/Religio Medici. Printedfor Andrew Crooke, 1643.” It contains, when complete: 1. “A Letter sent [from Sir Thomas Browne to Sir Kenelme Digby] upon the Information of Animadversions to come forth, upon the imperfect and surreptitious Copy of Religio Medici; whilst this true one was going to the Presse —2. Sir Kenelme Digby’s answer;—3. a short address from “A. B.,” “To such as have, or shall peruse the Observations upon a former corrupt Copy of this Booke —4. a list of more than thirty Errata (many of which were over- looked or neglected in most of the subsequent editions) ; —5. a preface from Sir Thomas Browne “To the Reader;”—and 6. the text (ending on p. 183) much en- larged, divided into two Parts, each of which is sub- divided into Sections. This is the first authorized edition. {British Museum.) D. 1645. Small 8vo. London, Crooke. A careless reprint of C, with only about one-fourth of the Errata corrected. The text ends on p. 174. This appears to be the second authorized edition. (Bodl. Libr. Oxford.) E. 1645. Small 8vo. London, Crookc. This is apparently the same edition as the preceding, but with various corrections made in some of the sheets c 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24879551_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
