Religio medici: to which is added, hydriotaphia, or urn-burial, a Discourse on Sepulchral Urns.
London.
Joseph Rickerby, 1838.
8vo.
266pp. With half-title. Contemporary gilt-tooled black half-morocco, blue cloth boards, T.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked, with light surface wear to joints and edges, upper joint starting. Inked gift inscription addressed to 'Philip Bourke Marston: from R. Garret. Christmas, 1873' and separate ownership inscription of C. Daniels, 1909 to half-title. Leaves lightly browned.
The first literary work of English Polymath Sir Thomas Browne (1605 – 1682), first officially published in 1643, of which the original title translates to 'The Religion of a Physician', accompanied by his 1658 treatise on the discovery of numerous 'sepulchrall urns', or Anglo-Saxon pots, in Norfolk, and additional discourse on archaic and contemporary funeral rites.
This copy belonged to English poet Philip Bourke Marston (1850 – 1887), whose three collections of poetry, Songtide (1871), All in All (1873) and Wind Voices (1883), were largely inspired by the great losses he experienced in his life: the deaths of his sisters, Eleanor and Cicely, writer and poet Edith Nesbit, to whom he was betrothed, and the Scottish journalist James Thomson, of whom he was a close kindred spirit.
£ 125.00
Antiquates Ref: 34468
This copy belonged to English poet Philip Bourke Marston (1850 – 1887), whose three collections of poetry, Songtide (1871), All in All (1873) and Wind Voices (1883), were largely inspired by the great losses he experienced in his life: the deaths of his sisters, Eleanor and Cicely, writer and poet Edith Nesbit, to whom he was betrothed, and the Scottish journalist James Thomson, of whom he was a close kindred spirit.
