A Letter to a Friend upon the occasion of the Death of his Intimate Friend. Edited with a postscript by Geoffrey Keynes.
Browne, Thomas.
Published by David R. Godine, Boston. Printed at the University Press, Oxford., 1971
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7 1/2 inches x 11 in., 41 pp. + colophon page. Printed on paper made under the supervision of The Hale Paper Company, with the special Sir Thomas Browne, medical watermark, designed by Bram De Does; and bound by Robert Burlen & Son, Boston. Black leather spine and sides, with gilt-lettered titling on the spine, tan paper over boards with the Sir Thomas Browne device, embossed on the front cover, marbled endpapers, top-edge stained red-brown; with a tan and brown paper-covered slipcase. Seller Inventory # ABE-855368401
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Title: A Letter to a Friend upon the occasion of ...
Publisher: David R. Godine, Boston. Printed at the University Press, Oxford.
Publication Date: 1971
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
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A letter to a friend upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend; edited with a postscript by Geoffrey Keynes Kt
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David R. Godine, Boston, 1971
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Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
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Black calf-backed boards in matching slip-case, gilt lettering on spine and marbled end-papers. An excellent copy. Limited edition, number 7 of 750 copies printed at the University Press, Oxford, by Vivian Ridler. Written about a young man who died of tuberculosis while under his care, A letter to a friend "is essentially a clinical report, including the patient's medical history, the signs and symptoms of his illness, and the pathological evidences of disease found after his death" (postscript). The editor of this edition speculates that the young man was translator Robert Loveday, and that the recipient was Browne's friend, Sir John Pettus, a wealthy royalist. It was first published in a folio pamphlet in 1690. Seller Inventory # 12056
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