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WRIGHT, Thomas (c.1561-1623). The Passions of the Minde in Generall...with a Treatise thereto adioyning of the Clymatericall Yeare, occasioned by the Death of Queen Elizabeth. London: V. Simmes for W. Burre, 1604. 2 parts in one volume, 4° (189 x 141mm). Woodcut title-vignette on title of part 2, first leaf in the same part blank save for signature, folding printed table (short tear in table, a little worming, mostly marginal but occasionally affecting text very slightly, a little waterstaining, corners at beginning and end dogeared). Contemporary limp vellum (lacks ties, a little worn).
FIRST EDITION, second issue (see STC) of the catholic priest Wright's magnum opus, used by Robert Burton in his Anatomy of Melancholy.
FIRST EDITION, second issue (see STC) of the catholic priest Wright's magnum opus, used by Robert Burton in his Anatomy of Melancholy.
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