Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 72

Price Realized: $ 240
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
BROWNE, THOMAS, Sir. Sir Thomas Browne's Works. Including His Life and Correspondence. Edited by Simon Wilkin F.L.S. Frontispiece portrait (offsetting onto title), plate, folding manuscript facsimile (foxed), and 3 genealogical tables in Volume 1; 2 plates (partly dampstained) in Volume 4. 4 volumes. 8vo, late 19th-/early 20th-century tan calf gilt with green and brown morocco lettering pieces, spines slightly faded. London: William Pickering, 1836-35

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first wilkin edition. "Wilkin was the first editor to print most of the correspondence and extensive extracts from commonplace books and other manuscripts, including the compositions in Latin"--Keynes 203.