![[BURTON, Robert (1577-1640).] The Anatomy of Melancholy. Oxford: John Lichfield and James Short for Henry Cripps, 1624.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/1995/CKS/1995_CKS_05424_0237_000(103232).jpg?w=1)
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[BURTON, Robert (1577-1640).] The Anatomy of Melancholy. Oxford: John Lichfield and James Short for Henry Cripps, 1624.
2° (285 x185mm). (Rustholes in 2F<->4, 2S<->1, 3Q<->4, 3T<->2, tears in 2R<->1 and 4D<->4.) Contemporary sprinkled calf, 18th-century lettering piece (spine repaired at head at foot, joints split at head and foot). Provenance: Abraham Holland (d.1626, poet and son of Philemon, inscription 'A. Holland ex dono matris'); Nath. Burroughs (inscription, dated August 7th 1649); Richard Gifford (1725-1807, miscellaneous writer, signature); E.Gordon Duff (signature).
SECOND (FIRST FOLIO) EDITION. A fine copy, with an interesting early provenance, of a work which was 'one of the most popular books of the seventeenth century. All the learning of the age as well as its humour - and its pedantry - are there. ...it exercised a considerable influence on the thought of the time.' (Printing and the Mind of Man.). First published in quarto in 1621, this edition is completely revised. STC 4160; Jordan 3.
2° (285 x185mm). (Rustholes in 2F<->4, 2S<->1, 3Q<->4, 3T<->2, tears in 2R<->1 and 4D<->4.) Contemporary sprinkled calf, 18th-century lettering piece (spine repaired at head at foot, joints split at head and foot). Provenance: Abraham Holland (d.1626, poet and son of Philemon, inscription 'A. Holland ex dono matris'); Nath. Burroughs (inscription, dated August 7th 1649); Richard Gifford (1725-1807, miscellaneous writer, signature); E.Gordon Duff (signature).
SECOND (FIRST FOLIO) EDITION. A fine copy, with an interesting early provenance, of a work which was 'one of the most popular books of the seventeenth century. All the learning of the age as well as its humour - and its pedantry - are there. ...it exercised a considerable influence on the thought of the time.' (Printing and the Mind of Man.). First published in quarto in 1621, this edition is completely revised. STC 4160; Jordan 3.