refers to the portrait engraved by Martin Droeshout, issued with _Death's Duell_, in 1632. The whole verse seems to be an apology for the lack of a portrait in this volume. Donne was abundantly figured afterward. The _Poems_, printed in 1635, and again in 1639, contained his portrait at the age of eighteen, engraved by Marshall; Merian engraved him at the age of forty-two, for the _Sermons_ of 1640; and Lombart produced the beautiful head for the _Letters_ of 1651. Quarto. COLLATION: _Title, one leaf; A-Z, Aa-Zz, and Aaa-Fff3, in fours_. SIR THOMAS BROWNE (1605-1682) 26. Religio, | Medici. | Printed for Andrew Crooke. 1642. Will: Marſhall. ſcu. This is thought to be the earlier of two anonymous editions published in the same year, and without the author's sanction, as we learn from the third edition published in the following year, entitled _A true and full coppy of that which was moſt | imperfectly and Surreptitiously printed before | under the name of: Religio Medici._ In the preface Browne says over his signature: "... I have at preſent repreſented into the world a ful and intended copy of that Peece which was moſt imperfectly and surreptitiouſly publiſhed before." He repeats the complaint of surreptitious publication in a letter to Sir Kenelm Digby, in which he begs the latter to delay the publication of his "Animadversions upon ... the Religio Medici" which "the liberty of these times committed to the Press." The chief points of difference between the two surreptitious editions have been pointed out by Mr. W. A. Greenhill in his facsimile edition of the book, printed in 1883. The form of some of the capital letters is occasionally different; the issue which he calls A, and to which our copy belongs, has pp. 190, the other, B, 159; A has 25 lines to a page--B, 26; and the lines in A are shorter than those in B. After comparing these with the authorized version, Mr. Greenhill says: "It will appear from the above collection of various readings that the alterations made by the Author in the authorized edition consisted chiefly in the correction of positive blunders, made (as we know from an examination of the existing MSS.) quite as often by the copyist as by the printer. But he also took the opportunity of modifying various positive and strongly worded propositions by the substitution of less dogmatic expressions, or the insertion of the qualifying words, _I think_, _as some will have it, in some sense, upon some grounds_, and the like." "Upon the whole," Mr. Greenhill thinks Browne "had good reason to complain bitterly that the book was published, not only without his knowledge and consent, but also in a "depraved and 'imperfect' form."