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GRAHAME, Simion (ca 1570-1614). The Anatomy of Humors. Edinburgh: Printed by Thomas Finlason, 1609.
Small 4o (174 x 132 mm). Woodcut head-piece on title-page, woodcut borders throughout. (Title-page lightly browned, D1 with fore-margin cropped, a few borders shaved slightly.) 19th-century russia gilt, edges gilt (minor wear to spine ends); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: Charles Tennant (bookplate) -- inserted leaf at beginning containing notes on the author by a previous owner -- Henry Cunliffe (bookplate) -- sold Sotheby's London, 1 July 1968, lot 17 -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 18 September 1968.
FIRST EDITION, containing prose and verse on the humors of man which may have been the inspiration for Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy (1621). Probably born in Edinburgh, Grahame "led a licentious life as a traveller, soldier, and courtier" (DNB), before repenting and assuming the habit of St. Francis. EXCEEDINGLY RARE: only one other copy has appeared at auction since this copy sold in 1968 for £580. A facsimile was printed in 1830 for the Bannatyne Club. Aldis 412; STC 12168.
Small 4o (174 x 132 mm). Woodcut head-piece on title-page, woodcut borders throughout. (Title-page lightly browned, D1 with fore-margin cropped, a few borders shaved slightly.) 19th-century russia gilt, edges gilt (minor wear to spine ends); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: Charles Tennant (bookplate) -- inserted leaf at beginning containing notes on the author by a previous owner -- Henry Cunliffe (bookplate) -- sold Sotheby's London, 1 July 1968, lot 17 -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 18 September 1968.
FIRST EDITION, containing prose and verse on the humors of man which may have been the inspiration for Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy (1621). Probably born in Edinburgh, Grahame "led a licentious life as a traveller, soldier, and courtier" (DNB), before repenting and assuming the habit of St. Francis. EXCEEDINGLY RARE: only one other copy has appeared at auction since this copy sold in 1968 for £580. A facsimile was printed in 1830 for the Bannatyne Club. Aldis 412; STC 12168.