RELIGIO MEDICI & OTHER ESSAYS BY SIR THOMAS BROWNE 1910 ARTS & CRAFTS FINE BINDING

[BROWNE, THOMAS]. Religio Medici and other Essays. London: Chapman and Hall, n.d. [ca. 1910].

First edition thus. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (190 x 130 mm.), pp. [vi], 231. Exquisitely bound in Arts and Crafts style binding of full crushed morocco. Spine with five raised bands, the compartments ruled, tooled and lettered in gilt. Boards, edges and turn-ins similarly gilt ruled and tooled. All page edges gilt. Half-title present. Portrait frontispiece of author. Printed by Ballantyne and Company. Contains: Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia: Urn Burial, A Letter to a Friend, & On Dreams. Condition: Binding tight and secure, rubbing to spine ends with minor losses, the covers otherwise nicely preserved. Contents fresh and clean with some light browning and foxing to endpapers. Without previous ownership markings.