1886, Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici: Urn Burial.. Edited John A Symonds, HB

Description: Fully titled and subtitled, Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici: Urn Burial, Christian Morals, and Other Essays. Edited, with an Introduction by John Addington Symonds. First Thus, published in 1886 by Walter Scott, as part of "The Camelot Classics" series. Overall in VERY GOOD CONDITION. Clean blue cloth boards boards, some rubbing of paste-down title on spine. Boards with light edge and corner wear, corners lightly bumped. A previous owner inked name and date (Dec 24, 1894) on first free endpaper. There are a few previous owner light ink underlines or paragraph highlights; there were also a few pencil markings that I have erased them. There are very few and they are unobtrusive. There are 262 solidly bound pages with a laid-in errata sheet before 6 pages of publisher ads. An overview of the book from an online listing: "..one of Browne's most celebrated and enduring writings... The Oxford Companion describes "Religio Medici" as "a confession of Christian faith (qualified by an eclectic and generally skeptical attitude), and a collection of opinions on a vast number of subjects more or less connected with religion, expressed with a wealth of fancy and wide erudition." Readers have always been fascinated by the book's style, by the mind that both style and contents reveal, and by the author's combination of detachment from the world and curiosity about its smallest physical objects. Browne says in his preface that the book was written for his "private exercise and satisfaction," but he was not repelled by its unauthorized publication in 1642, nor did he discourage its republication a year later. It is accompanied here by other pieces, including "Hydriotaphia: Urn Burial," one of the first archaeological monographs in English. On the author Sir Thomas Browne from Wikipedia: "Sir Thomas Browne (/braʊn/; 19 October 1605 – 19 October 1682) was an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric. His writings display a deep curiosity towards the natural world, influenced by the Scientific Revolution of Baconian enquiry and are permeated by references to Classical and Biblical sources as well as the idiosyncrasies of his own personality. Although often described as suffused with melancholia, Browne's writings are also characterised by wit and subtle humour, while his literary style is varied, according to genre, resulting in a rich, unique prose which ranges from rough notebook observations to polished Baroque eloquence." B136

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