Lewis (Clive Staples, 1898-1963). British Author and Theologian. Religio Medici and Other Essays by Sir Thomas Browne, [The Books of the Verulam Club], Chapman & Hall, [1910?], portrait frontispiece, [231] pp., occasional marginal pencil lines in an unidentified hand throughout, and one pencil note 'Antinomies Page 41' to rear endpaper verso, seemingly in Lewis's hand, small brown spot to lower outer corners of pp. 60-63, dated ownership signature of 'C.S. Lewis [April 1919]' in brown ink to front free endpaper, partly uncut, original boards with gilt motif to upper cover and printed paper label to spine, rubbed and partly browned, spine darkened and missing uppermost compartment, 8vo (Qty: 1) The numbered ink footnote on p. 29, written in C.S. Lewis’s small and exceptionally neat hand, is a quote from St Augustine’s Confessions: ‘Et eunt homines mirari alta montium et ingentes fluctus maris et latissimos lapsus fluminum et oceani ambitum et gynos siderum et relinquunt se ipsos nec mirantur. (Augustin.Conf.X.viii.15). Cf Davies Nosce Teipsum. Introd.p.49.’ Saint Augustine wrote his autobiographical work, Confessions, between CE 397 and 400. The Loeb Classics translates this phrase as: ‘People go off to marvel at the height of mountains and the great waves of the sea and the broad courses of rivers, and the flow of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars: but they neglect themselves.’ Sir John Davies (1569-1626) was an English poet, lawyer and politician. His most famous poem, Nosce Teipsum (Know thyself), was published in 1599. The pencil marks and notes are also believed to be in Lewis’s hand, though the notes at the end of Religio Medici, ‘Read the second time Oct. 26th 1924’ (p. 136) and Hydriotaphia, ‘Oct 26th 1824 2nd time. Feb 26th 1926 3rd time’ (p. 198) are less typical of his hand. The final pencil note, ‘Antimonies p. 41’ on the rear endpaper verso is more clearly in Lewis’s hand with the exaggerated upstroke of the letter 'p'. The Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College, Illinois, has a marked-up 3-volume Works edition of Thomas Browne, edited by Charles Sayle, Edinburgh: J. Grant 1927 (PR3327.A16 S3 1927), and it is probable that Lewis let this earlier edition go after he acquired the newer and more complete edition. Lewis was a life-long fan of Thomas Browne and considered his writings among the 'great triumphs' of English prose. It is not surprising to therefore see so many marginal pencil marks.
Lewis (Clive Staples, 1898-1963). British Author and Theologian. Religio Medici and Other Essays by Sir Thomas Browne, [The Books of the Verulam Club], Chapman & Hall, [1910?], portrait frontispiece, [231] pp., occasional marginal pencil lines in an unidentified hand throughout, and one pencil note 'Antinomies Page 41' to rear endpaper verso, seemingly in Lewis's hand, small brown spot to lower outer corners of pp. 60-63, dated ownership signature of 'C.S. Lewis [April 1919]' in brown ink to front free endpaper, partly uncut, original boards with gilt motif to upper cover and printed paper label to spine, rubbed and partly browned, spine darkened and missing uppermost compartment, 8vo (Qty: 1) The numbered ink footnote on p. 29, written in C.S. Lewis’s small and exceptionally neat hand, is a quote from St Augustine’s Confessions: ‘Et eunt homines mirari alta montium et ingentes fluctus maris et latissimos lapsus fluminum et oceani ambitum et gynos siderum et relinquunt se ipsos nec mirantur. (Augustin.Conf.X.viii.15). Cf Davies Nosce Teipsum. Introd.p.49.’ Saint Augustine wrote his autobiographical work, Confessions, between CE 397 and 400. The Loeb Classics translates this phrase as: ‘People go off to marvel at the height of mountains and the great waves of the sea and the broad courses of rivers, and the flow of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars: but they neglect themselves.’ Sir John Davies (1569-1626) was an English poet, lawyer and politician. His most famous poem, Nosce Teipsum (Know thyself), was published in 1599. The pencil marks and notes are also believed to be in Lewis’s hand, though the notes at the end of Religio Medici, ‘Read the second time Oct. 26th 1924’ (p. 136) and Hydriotaphia, ‘Oct 26th 1824 2nd time. Feb 26th 1926 3rd time’ (p. 198) are less typical of his hand. The final pencil note, ‘Antimonies p. 41’ on the rear endpaper verso is more clearly in Lewis’s hand with the exaggerated upstroke of the letter 'p'. The Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College, Illinois, has a marked-up 3-volume Works edition of Thomas Browne, edited by Charles Sayle, Edinburgh: J. Grant 1927 (PR3327.A16 S3 1927), and it is probable that Lewis let this earlier edition go after he acquired the newer and more complete edition. Lewis was a life-long fan of Thomas Browne and considered his writings among the 'great triumphs' of English prose. It is not surprising to therefore see so many marginal pencil marks.
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