Religio Medici

The unauthorized Crooke 1642 (London) is the first appearance in print and precedes the authorized text — the census claim is correct, though incomplete, since there are two 1642 editions whose order is contested (above). Browne's authorized edition followed in 1643, again from Crooke, titled "Religio Medici. A true and full coppy of that which was most imperfectly and surreptitiously printed before under the name of Religio Medici"; it adds several leaves of prefatory matter and several hundred minor textual changes, and reuses or copies Marshall's plate. That Browne retained Crooke as publisher of the authorized version suggests tacit acceptance of the piracy. The 1643 is the first authorized edition, not a "first thus" reprint, and a serious collection holds the 1642 and 1643 as a pair. Sir Kenelm Digby's Observations upon Religio Medici (1643), which prompted Browne's authorized text, is a separate work commonly collected alongside. The work was reprinted about eight times in Browne's lifetime and translated into Latin, French, German, Dutch and Italian.