Lot 189
(BURTON, Robert)
THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY; WHAT IT IS, WITH ALL THE KINDES, CAUSES, SYMPTOMES, PROGNOSTICKS AND SEVERALL CURES OF IT
Antiquarian Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 23 September 2000 from 12:00 BST
Description
by Democritus Junior ... 1st edition, with errata leaf Ddd4, two early ownership names to title, some marginal browning and toning with very minor foxing, full mottled calf boards with later rebacked panelled spine, small 8vo, Oxford, John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps 1621. * The dedication is found with and without the Militi de Balneo
* See Illustration
Footnote
References: (S.T.C. 4159, Maden 493; Pforzheimer 119; Grulier, Langland to Wither 30) "The Anatomy of Melancholy has been more fequently reprinted than almost any other psychiatric text appearing in over seventy editions since its original publication" (Norman 381)