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Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682)

The garden of Cyrus, or the Quincunciall lozenge,
or net-work plantations of the ancients, artificially,
naturally, mystically considered. [London, Printed
for H. Brome, 1658] (With his: Hydriotaphia, urne
buriall. London, H. Brome, 1658) (N.Y. Pub. Lib.;
Bib. Nat. Paris)

Of philosophical and literary rather than
practical interest. Is to be found in an infinite 
number and variety of editions, some of
the earliest of which were published as follows:

-----  [2d ed.] (With his: Hydriotaphia. London,
N. Ekins, 1658; appended to his: Pseudodoxia epidemica.
3d ed. London, N. Ekins, 1658) (N.Y. Pub. Lib.; Bib.
Nat. Paris)

-----  [3d ed.] (With his: Hydriotaphia. 3d ed.
London, H. Brome, 1658; appended to 4th ed. of his:
Vulgar errors)

-----  [4th ed.] (With his: Hydriotaphia. 4th ed.
London, Dod, 1669; appended to 5th ed. of his: Vulgar
errors)

This is said to be the last ed. pub. during
the author’s lifetime. Data on 16th and 17th
century eds. found in Greenhill, W. A. "Sir
Thomas Browne's Hydriotaphia and the garden
of Cyrus" (London, Macmillan & co., 1911)
(Lib. Cong.; N.Y. Pub. Lib., etc.)

Translated into French; see Cat. Bib. Nat.
20:236; into Dutch; see Wageningen, Bull.
Cat. IV (1930), no.11, item 23376 ("De
lusthof van Cyrus, of De vyf-regelige ruyt,
of nets-wyze boom-plantinge der aalouden",
1700?)

-----  See also Sieveking, Albert Forbes. Sir
William Temple upon the gardens of Epicurus. London, 
1908.
        