Urne Buriall and The Garden of Cyrus, illustrated by Paul Nash, London, Cassell, The Curwen Press

Item author: Sir Thomas Browne (1605-82)
Item date: 1932
Grant Value: £2,050
Item cost: £4,101
Item cost pre-decimal: NULL
Item date acquired: 2009
Item institution: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Town/City: Edinburgh

Paul Nash (1889-1946) spent more time and care on his illustrations of Sir Thomas Browne's famous work, first published in 1658, than on any other of his book projects. The present copy, no. 183 of an edition of 215, contains fifteen full-page and seventeen half-page collotype illustrations. Nash also designed its sumptuous binding of brown morocco and ivory vellum inlaid in gold.

Item Provenance
York Modern Books, Stockton on Forest, Yorkshire