Author: Geoffrey Keynes
Title: A Bibliography of Sir Thomas Browne
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1924. First edition. Cloth. A smart bibliography of the library of Sir Thomas Browne, illustrated with facsimiles. About the library of Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682), an English author. His library covered the classics, history, philology, cartography, medicine, cosmography, ornithology, mineralogy, zoology, mathematics and geometry amongst many other things. His works were auctioned off in 1711, and the catalogue produced an important record of the distribution of books in the seventeenth centuries.Written by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), a British author, surgeon and bibliophile. He was a scholar of William Blake and William Harvey, and was passionate about the science of bibliography. He also produced biographies of the likes of John Evelyn, Jane Austen and Siegfried Sassoon, and an autobiography the year before his death. Keyne's personal library consisted of some four thousand works. A limited edition, with this being No. 451 of 500 copies.Illustrated with five plates, as well as reproductions of various title pages.A handsome copy of this bibliography. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally generally smart, with just some slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .

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