Pseudodoxia epidemica: . or, enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths.
Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
Category
Books
Date
1646
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 3009619
Summary
Bibliographic description
[20],386,[2]p. . fol... Not indigenous. Loosely inserted: clippings from dealer's catalogues, unrelated to provenance. Provenance: Seventeenth-century inscriptions on flyleaves: "Rxx", a line of Latin, an illegible signature (crossed out), and the title "Brownes vulgar errors". Small ink note on p. 386: M.C.[?] On rear endpaper: "Ye tragedy of N[-] [?] and his army". Affixed to stub of printer's waste: a gathering of 4 leaves, with manuscript index in seventeenth-century hand on first leaf. Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Inscribed on flyleaf in Norris's hand: "H. [i.e. Hodgson's] 6/7 39 Lot 219 Đ2:10 1st edn. + licence leaf & final blank leaf. Waterstained.". Binding: Seventeenth-century full calf over boards; blind fillets and quarter-fillets; sewn on five raised bands; fragment of earlier printed sheet used as printer's waste.
Makers and roles
Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)