Lot 206
Burton, Robert
Printed Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 11 July 2006 at 12:00 BST
£1,793
Description
The Anatomy of Melancholy. Oxford: John Lichfield and James Short for Henry Cripps, 1624, 4to (284 x 180mm.), second edition, contemporary calf, arms on sides, title slightly soiled, repaired in inner margin and with upper corner and part of fore-margin renewed, marginal repair to D4, rusthole to M3, BB4, MMM1 and OOO4 affecting a few letters, occasional spotting and soiling, rebacked, edges and corners worn, corners repaired, upper joint splitting, later endpapers
Footnote
Provenance: J.P.R. Lyell, bookplate; twentieth-century inscription on front endpaper
Note: STC 4160;