Lot 209

Burton, Robert

Printed Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 11 July 2006 at 12:00 BST
£407
Description
The Anatomy of Melancholy. Oxford: for Henry Cripps, 1651, sixth edition, 4to (270 x 178mm.), engraved title by C. le Blon, eighteenth-century calf-backed boards with vellum corners, title just shaved in lower corner, occasional light soiling, rusthole to 3M3 and 4Q1, head of spine rubbed
Footnote
Provenance: twentieth-century inscription on front endpaper
Note: The first posthumous edition and the last edition with Burton's own revisions which he had prepared for the press before his death in 1639.
