![[BURTON, Robert (1577-1640)]. The Anatomy of Melancholy, what it is. With all the kindes, causes, symptomes, prognostickes, and severall cures of it. By Democritus Iunior. Oxford: John Lichfield and James Short for Henry Cripps, 1621.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/1998/NYP/1998_NYP_08922_0345_000(104826).jpg?w=1)
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[BURTON, Robert (1577-1640)]. The Anatomy of Melancholy, what it is. With all the kindes, causes, symptomes, prognostickes, and severall cures of it. By Democritus Iunior. Oxford: John Lichfield and James Short for Henry Cripps, 1621.
Chancery 4o (183 x 141 mm). Collation: a-e8 f4 (title, dedication to the 8th Baron Berkeley, preface, synopsis first partition); A-S8 (first partition, synopsis second partition); T-Z8 Aa-Hh8 (second partition, synopsis third partition); Ii-Zz8 Aaa-Ccc8 (third partition); Ddd4 (Conclusion of the author to the Reader, Errata). Woodcut initials and headpieces, typographical ornaments. (Minor staining.) Contemporary English calf, blind fillets and central arabesque stamp in center of the covers (rebacked, original spine-strip laid down), morocco fall-down-back box.
Provenance: William Wolles (contemporary signature); John Lesse (1765 inscription); Crewe Hall (armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of the classic study on depression. Numerous editions attest its early popularity. Its treatment is encyclopedic, with long digressions, and the book's influence - literary and psychiatric - has never waned. RARE in contemporary binding and fine condition. Grolier/English 18; NLM/Krivatsy 1967; Jordan-Smith 1; PMM 120; STC 4159; Norman 381.
Chancery 4o (183 x 141 mm). Collation: a-e8 f4 (title, dedication to the 8th Baron Berkeley, preface, synopsis first partition); A-S8 (first partition, synopsis second partition); T-Z8 Aa-Hh8 (second partition, synopsis third partition); Ii-Zz8 Aaa-Ccc8 (third partition); Ddd4 (Conclusion of the author to the Reader, Errata). Woodcut initials and headpieces, typographical ornaments. (Minor staining.) Contemporary English calf, blind fillets and central arabesque stamp in center of the covers (rebacked, original spine-strip laid down), morocco fall-down-back box.
Provenance: William Wolles (contemporary signature); John Lesse (1765 inscription); Crewe Hall (armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of the classic study on depression. Numerous editions attest its early popularity. Its treatment is encyclopedic, with long digressions, and the book's influence - literary and psychiatric - has never waned. RARE in contemporary binding and fine condition. Grolier/English 18; NLM/Krivatsy 1967; Jordan-Smith 1; PMM 120; STC 4159; Norman 381.
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