Pseudodoxia epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths. By Thomas Brown Dr. of physick. The fourth edition. With marginal observations, and a table alphabetical. Whereunto are now added two discourses the one of urn-burial, or sepulchrall urns, lately found in Norfolk. The other of the garden of Cyrus, or network plantations of the antients. Both newly written by the same author.
Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
Category
Books
Date
1658
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3138648
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 118, 135-356, 369-468, [16]; [12], 73, [3] p. : ill. (metal cuts) ; 4to. Running number: 7564. Provenance: eighteenth-century manuscript former shelfmark on front pastedown: T.2.10 [written in the hand of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: eighteenth-century Cambridge-style blind-panelled calf; sewn on five raised bands; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gilt title 'Brown,s [sic] vulgar errors' on brown leather label on spine. Red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682), author