The anatomy of melancholy : what it is, with all the kinds auses, symptomes, prognostickes, & seuerall cures of it, in three partitions, with their severall sections, members, & subsections, philosophically, medicinally, historically opened & cut up / By Democritus Junior [i.e. Robert Burton]. With a satyricall preface conducing to the following discourse.

  • Burton, Robert, 1577-1640.
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The anatomy of melancholy : what it is, with all the kinds auses, symptomes, prognostickes, & seuerall cures of it, in three partitions, with their severall sections, members, & subsections, philosophically, medicinally, historically opened & cut up / By Democritus Junior [i.e. Robert Burton]. With a satyricall preface conducing to the following discourse. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed for Peter Parker ..., 1676.

Physical description

8 unnumbered pages, 46 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 434 pages, 10 unnumbered pages ; 32 cm (folio)

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The eighth edition /

Notes

Engraved, illustrated t.p., by C. le Blon
"The argument of the frontispiece" (verses explaining the images on the engraved title), half title verso
Colophon: Printed by R.W. for Peter Parker. R.W. may be Robert White.--cf. Madan
Publishers' advertisements: final leaf. s
Index: p. [435-442]
Errors in pagination: p. 188, 227, 247, 303, 350, 352-3, 394 are numbered 170, 267, 347, 301, 342, 372-3, 294 respectively
Signatures: [A4] B-3R4
Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: P.J. Hilton Note: Binding: Later calf, rebacked. Bookplates of Theod. H. Broadhead (d. 1810. Born Brinckman and assumed the name of Broadhead.--cf. Franks 3772) and Richard Henry Tidswell. Book label of George Harwood. Engravings of James Boswell and Samuel Johnson affixed to front endpaper

References note

Wing B6184
Madan, F. Burton and the anatomy of melancholy p. 197.
ESTC R10536
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), B6184

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