Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes lately found in Norfolk. Together with the Garden of Cyrus, or the Quincunciall, Lozenge, or Net-work Plantations of the Ancients, Artificially, Naturally, Mystically Considered. With Sundry Observations. 1st edition, printed for Hen. Brome, 1658, etched frontispiece of urns, and one etched illustration on letterpress, lacking second etched plate, separate title to The Garden of Cyrus, and three additional leaves at end all present (The Stationer to the Reader, Books Printed..., and Dr. Brown's Garden of Cyrus, the latter printed perpendicularly), first few gatherings with some toning and spotting, gatherings B, C, and K with waterstaining to lower blank corners, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Richard Adams, upper hinge split, all edges gilt, 19th century red morocco, gilt decorated spine with extremities rubbed (and slight loss at head), corners rubbed, 8vo Keynes 93. Pforzheimer 110. Wing B5154. (1)
Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes lately found in Norfolk. Together with the Garden of Cyrus, or the Quincunciall, Lozenge, or Net-work Plantations of the Ancients, Artificially, Naturally, Mystically Considered. With Sundry Observations. 1st edition, printed for Hen. Brome, 1658, etched frontispiece of urns, and one etched illustration on letterpress, lacking second etched plate, separate title to The Garden of Cyrus, and three additional leaves at end all present (The Stationer to the Reader, Books Printed..., and Dr. Brown's Garden of Cyrus, the latter printed perpendicularly), first few gatherings with some toning and spotting, gatherings B, C, and K with waterstaining to lower blank corners, marbled endpapers, bookplate of Richard Adams, upper hinge split, all edges gilt, 19th century red morocco, gilt decorated spine with extremities rubbed (and slight loss at head), corners rubbed, 8vo Keynes 93. Pforzheimer 110. Wing B5154. (1)
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