The Anatomy of Melancholy. What it is, with all the kinds causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & seuerall cures of it. In three partitions, with their severall sections, members & subsections. Philosophically, medicinally, historically, opened & cut up. By Democritus Junior. With a satyricall preface...

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Lot #39The Anatomy of Melancholy. What it is, with all the kinds causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & seuerall cures of it. In three partitions, with their severall sections, members & subsections. Philosophically, medicinally, historically, opened & cut up. By Democritus Junior. With a satyricall preface...

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The Anatomy of Melancholy. What it is, with all the kinds causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & seuerall cures of it. In three partitions, with their severall sections, members & subsections. Philosophically, medicinally, historically, opened & cut up. By Democritus Junior. With a satyricall preface...

Author:

[Burton, Robert]

Place Published:

Oxford

Publisher:

Printed for Henry Cripps

Date Published:

1632

Description:

Engraved title page, illustrated by Le Blond, plus a few woodcut decorations, woodcut initials. (4to), rebound with portion of earlier calf covers decorated with a gilt-stamped coat of arms of Thomas Edwardes, laid down to front and rear board, new endpapers. Fourth Edition.

With the illustrated title page by German engraver Michel Le Blond, featuring 10 illustrations, 9 of which showing figures representing the effects of melancholy. The final illustration is a portrait of the author. Burton (1577-1640) continually changed and augmented his work and prepared six editions of this book before his death. On being asked why he chose such a subject, he replied, "I write of melancholy by being busy to avoid melancholy." STC (2nd ed.), 4162; Madan, I, p. 162.

Condition:

Rubs and nicks to original cover portions; explanatory leaf which faces illustrated title page is heavily worn, and mounted to a later leaf, darkening, and lightly chipped with some finger soiling to title page edges; else very good.

Item#:

221625

Headline:

Anatomy of Melancholy 4th edition 1632
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Sale 457: Fine & Rare Books from Two Private Collections (with additions) (#457) 06/30/2011 1:00 PM PDT Closed Starts Ending 06/30/2011 1:00 PM PDT

Sale 457: Fine & Rare Books from Two Private Collections (with additions) (#457) 06/30/2011 1:00 PM PDT Closed Starts Ending 06/30/2011 1:00 PM PDT

Sale 457: Fine & Rare Books from Two Private Collections (with additions) (#457) 06/30/2011 1:00 PM PDT Closed
Starts Ending 06/30/2011 1:00 PM PDT

Sale 457: Fine & Rare Books from Two Private Collections (with additions) (#457) 06/30/2011 1:00 PM PDT Closed
Starts Ending 06/30/2011 1:00 PM PDT