Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 491

SIR THOMAS BROWNE (1605-1682) The works. Faber & Gwyer; New York: William Edwin Rudge 1928-1931 18.9 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 485

This latest and most complete edition of the writings of Browne is an excellent example of the scholarly achievements of Sir Goeffrey Keynes (see No. 2325). The last definitive edition of Browne had been edited by Simon Wilkin (1790-1862) and was published at London in 1836. Since that time only one incomplete edition of Browne's works had appeared and Keynes felt that the increase in Browne's reputation and stature as a writer deserved the most complete modern edition possible. Keynes gave Wilkin ample credit for his contributions and noted that the majority of the new material he was adding was in the volumes devoted to miscellaneous writings and letters. Keynes also commented that Browne wrote little Latin prose and that those writings were not included in this edition. Each volume in the set includes a frontispiece of which three are portraits of Browne, two feature different views of his skull, and one is of Browne and his wife, Dame Dorothy.

See Related Record(s): 2325

Cited references: Waller 1541

Gift of John Martin, M.D.