Sir Thomas Browne's Religio medici : Letter to a friend, &c. and Christian morals / edited by W.A. Greenhill.

  • Thomas Browne
Date:
1901
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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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    2. 1644. 12mo. [Paris.] J The usual frontispiece-title, and the words, “Juxta Exemp. Lug. Batavor.” It contains 244 pp. of text (some of those at the end of the volume being num- bered wrongly), and 3 pp. of “ Anacephalseosis : ” the French verses in Pt. ii. § 4 are omitted. This is pro- bably the edition mentioned by Merryweather in a letter to Sir T. B. (vol. iii. p. 486, ed. Bohn), as follows:— “When I came to Paris the next year after [1644?], I found it printed again, in which edition both the Epistles were left out, and a Preface by some papist put in their place, in which, making use of and wresting some pas- sages in your book, he endeavoured to show that nothing but custom and education kept you from their Church.” The volume is probably scarce, as Gardiner appears never to have seen it. [British Museum.) 3. 1644. 12mo. Lugd. Bat., Hack. A reprint of No. 1, the text ending on p. 235. This is probably the edition mentioned by Merryweather, as fol- lows :—“ I see Hackius, the Leyden printer, hath made a new impression, ... as is easily observable by the differ- ence of the pages, and the omission of the Errata, which were noted in the first, though the title-page be the same in both.” This edition also is probably scarce, as it is not noticed by Wilkin or Gardiner.1 (Lotidon Medical Society.) 4. 1650. 12mo. Ludg. Bat., Hack. A reprint of No. 3, with the usual frontispiece-title ; the text ending on p. 235. (Univ. Libr., Camb.) 1 Wilkin thought that No. 4 was the edition mentioned by Merryweather in his letter to Sir Thomas Browne ; but if so, there must be some mistake in the date of the letter, viz, Oct. 1, 1649.”
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