Lot 208
Burton, Robert
Printed Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 11 July 2006 at 12:00 BST
Description
The Anatomy of Melancholy. What it is... the fifth edition. Oxford: Printed for Henry Cripps, 1638, 4to (270 x 170mm.), engraved title by C. le Blon, bound with the rare cancelled leaf LL1, woodcut ornaments and initials, contemporary calf, half-title/Argument of the Frontispiece leaf , *2 and *4 renewed in inner margin, half title with early ownership inscription of Jacobus ?Coven 1650, engraved title trimmed to plate-mark and mounted, marginal paper flaw to *3, some damp-staining and light soiling, primarily to preliminary leaves and F1-G1, a few minor marginal repairs, a few small rust-holes affecting a few letters, neatly rebacked
Footnote
Provenance: Jacobus Coven (?) 1650, inscription on half-title/Argument to the Frontispiece leaf; ; George Finch of Valentines in the County of Essex, armorial bookplate dated 1707; Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford , armorial bookplate; twentieth-century inscription on endpaper
Note: The last edition published during the author's last time, showing further revisions by Burton on the fourth edition. This copy has been bound accidentally with the cancelled leaf LL1 which has been cut, without loss, by the binder.