quarter vellum by Gray Parrot with a suite of four unicorn woodengravings enclosed and the etching of Browne in a chemise and in
1984 · Williamsburg
by Browne, Thomas
Williamsburg: Cheloniidae Press, 1984. quarter vellum by Gray Parrot with a suite of four unicorn woodengravings enclosed and the etching of Browne in a chemise and inserted in a quarter vellum tray-case. Cheloniidae Press. tall 8vo. quarter vellum by Gray Parrot with a suite of four unicorn woodengravings enclosed and the etching of Browne in a chemise and inserted in a quarter vellum tray-case. 56 pages. Limited to 210 copies of which this is one of 60 copies of the signed and numbered deluxe edition. This deluxe edition is printed on an obsolete Whatman paper and contains a frontispiece etching of Sir Thomas Browne not in the regular edition and is inserted in the special tray-case. First published as Chapter XXIII of PSEUDODOXIA EPIDEMICAin 1646. Illustrated with sixteen woodengravings by Alan James Robinson and with an introduction by Jan van Dorsten, head of the Sir Thomas Browne Institute in Leiden, Netherlands who comments on Browne's life, work and thought. Printed by Harold P. McGrath at the Hampshire Typothetae.
(Inventory #: 40438)