Religio medici. The fourth edition, corrected and amended. With Annotations never before published, upon all the obscure passages therein.

London : Printed by E. Cotes for Andrew Crook at the Green-Dragon in Pauls Church-yard, 1656.

18 unnumbered pages, 297 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 15 cm)

Keynes, G. Sir Thomas Browne, 6

Wing (2nd ed., 1994), B5172

ESTC R22776

"To the reader" signed: Tho. Browne.

With an additional title page (A1v), engraved, "A true and full coppy of that which was most imperfectly and surreptitiously printed before vnder the name: of Religio medici", with "Printed for Andrew Crooke 1645" in imprint. Keynes says that some copies have date altered to 1656.

"Annotations upon Religio medici" by Thomas Keck has separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous.

The author of the Annotations is stated by Wilkin, to have been Thomas Keck. Cf. The works of Sir Thomas Browne. Edited by Simon Wilkin. London, v. 2 (1899) p. 297-8.

With two final advertisement leaves.

Copy 1. Date on additional title page altered to 1656. Autograph of Samuel Salter on additional title page, and biographical note on Browne in same hand on recto.

Copy 2. Manuscript inscriptions on flyleaf: 'Liber Johannis Townsend ex Ablâ Magd. Oxon A.Xi. 1700'; 'Mr Jos. Lambeth [?] at Wattingfield near Kendall'; 'C. Cannon [?] St. John's Coll: Cambridge 1815'. And on lower endpaper: 'Sr Andrew Breton the Scotch Pirate 1703'; 'Andrew Hackett'; 'E. libris Caroli Cannon [?] e Collegio Sanctis Johannis Cantabrigiae 1816'. Booklabel 'Sum Caroli Whibley'.