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The works of the learned Sr Thomas Brown, Kt., Doctor of Physick, late of Norwich. Containing I. Enquiries into vulgar and common errors. II. Religio medici: With annotations and observations upon it. III. Hydriotaphia; or, Vrn-Burial: Together with The garden of Cyrus. IV. Certain miscellany tracts. With alphabetical tables

Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682 · 1686 · London, Printed for Tho. Basset, Ric. Chiswell, Tho. Sawbridge, Charles Mearn, and Charles Brome · 54 pictures

A 1686 London edition of the collected works of Sir Thomas Browne, a physician of Norwich, printed for several booksellers and containing his essays on vulgar errors, Religio medici, Hydriotaphia and The garden of Cyrus. The pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters and a printer's head-piece, with bold black leafy scrollwork, fleurons and foliage, offering a designer ready models for ornamental capitals and borders in a seventeenth-century manner.

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