BURTON, Robert (1577-1640). The Anatomy of Melancholy. What it is, with all the kinds causes symptomes, prognostickes & severall cures of it, Oxford: by John Lichfield for Henry Cripps, 1632. Small 2° (275 x 176mm.) Engraved title, woodcut head- and tailpiece, ornamental initials. (Light stain on title, occasional light soiling and unobtrusive marginal waterstaining). Contemporary sprinkled calf. (Front joints broken, head of spine worn, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Tho. Cornwall (1635) and Robert Cornwall (14 May 1655), inscription on front endpaper. Fourth edition. STC 4162.

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BURTON, Robert (1577-1640). The Anatomy of Melancholy. What it is, with all the kinds causes symptomes, prognostickes & severall cures of it, Oxford: by John Lichfield for Henry Cripps, 1632. Small 2° (275 x 176mm.) Engraved title, woodcut head- and tailpiece, ornamental initials. (Light stain on title, occasional light soiling and unobtrusive marginal waterstaining). Contemporary sprinkled calf. (Front joints broken, head of spine worn, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Tho. Cornwall (1635) and Robert Cornwall (14 May 1655), inscription on front endpaper. Fourth edition. STC 4162.

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