Simon Wilkin - Sir Thomas Browne's Works, Including His Life and Correspondence - 1836

Complete set in 4 volumes of the 1836 Pickering edition of the complete works of Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682), an English physician and writer among the most refined stylists of Baroque prose, author of Religio Medici, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Hydriotaphia and The Garden of Cyrus. This edition, edited by Simon Wilkin, is regarded as the standard nineteenth‑century edition and includes, in addition to the works, the author’s biography and personal correspondence.

Contents of the volumes:

• Vol. I: Biographical memoirs, domestic correspondence, and miscellany
• Vol. II: Religio Medici; Pseudodoxia Epidemica (books 1–4)
• Vol. III: Pseudodoxia Epidemica (books 4–7); The Garden of Cyrus; Hydriotaphia; Brampton Urns
• Vol. IV: Repertory; A Letter to a Friend; Christian Morals; Miscellany Tracts; carte inedite