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BROWNE (T), Sir.: Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici and Urn-Burial. FIRST APPEARANCE IN TEMPLE CLASSICS , Dent, 1896

Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, with a portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), small neat signature on front free endpaper, free endpapers lightly browned; original series binding of limp blue cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt, gilt top, uncut, pictorial front paste-down, pink silk marker, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean, crisp copy. A lovely copy of one of the earliest volumes in Dent's famous Temple Classics, with owl motif on upper board and Arts & Crafts title. Very scarce. (Book ref. 19300)  £66.00

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