Lot 102

Burton, Robert

Books, Maps, Photographs & Manuscripts
Auction: 12 July 2005 at 13:00 BST
£419
Description
The Anatomy of Melancholy... the Seventh edition. London: H. Cripps, 1660, folio, engraved title by Le Blon (cut close and mounted), nineteenth century panelled calf, neatly rebacked, lacks advertisement leaf at end, some waterstaining, mainly affecting the first eight leaves and a few leaves at the end, occasional light dust-soiling, burnhole in H3 repaired with slight loss of text
Footnote
Provenance: H.A. Barnes, Farnworth, 1881, bookplate
Note: A good copy of the only book which Dr. Johnson said got him out of his bed two hours sooner than he intended to rise.
Wing B6183
