OSLER PRESENTATION COPY.


BROWNE, THOMAS. 1605-1682. Browne's Religio Medici and Digby's Observations. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909. 8vo (195 x 130 mm). Publisher's blue cloth, typed letter signed laid-in. Offsetting to front free endpaper, small abrasion where letter was previously attached, paper of gutter at half-title torn.WITH: Typed Letter Signed ("Wm Osler") presenting the book, 1 p, 4to, December 13, 1909, single fold, toned at fold.Provenance: Frank Taylor Fulton (1867-1961) physician (bookplate).PRESENTATION COPY FROM WILLIAM OSLER WITH TYPED LETTER SIGNED to Frank Taylor Fulton, a former student of Osler's at Johns Hopkins. The letter, printed on his Regius Professor letterhead, reads: "Dear Fulton, I am sending you for Christmas a reprint of the authorized edition of the 'Religio' which they have published at the Press. You will be interested also to know that it is printed with, perhaps, the oldest font of type in use in England, that designed by Bishop Fell about 1660. Sincerely yours, Wm Osler." This edition was printed from copies of the books lent by Osler from his library.