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Burton, Robert, 1577-1640 [Democritus Junior]. THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY: WHAT IT IS, WITH ALL THE KINDS CAUSES, SYMPTOMES, PROGNOSTICKES, & SEVERALL CURES OF IT...
London Printed for Peter Parker 1676 Eighth edition Minor scratches on the cover, quite a clean and lovely copy. With the bookplate of Mary Bryant Sprague
Folio. [viii], 434p, [x, index, ads] A-Z4, Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Rrr4. With half-title and engraved title-page. Bound by Zaehnsdorf, with their special logo on the rear pastedown, in full brown crushed morocco with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., gilt spine titles and fancy floral gilt panel ornaments, triple rules around the covers, double rules on the board edges, fancy dentelles
Wing B6184; Prorzheimer 119 for the 1621 first edition; Grolier. English 18. "Burton had read much, and all that he had read, or nearly all, was refined and incorporated in the Anatomy. If it were objected that some of the matter was irrelevant, the reply would be that the anatomy of melancholy, like the study of jurisprudence, demands a knowledge of all things, human and divine... The Anatomy, as its publishing history shows, was one of the most popular books of the seventeenth century. All the learning of the age as well as its humour--and its pedantry--are there. It has something in common with Brandt's 'Ship of Fools', Erasmus's 'Praise of Folly', and More's Utopia, with Rabelais and Montaigne and like all these it exercised a considerable influence on the thought of the time. Dr Johnson deeply admired it, and Charles Lamb's often and strongly expressed devotion served to rescue the Anatomy from a brief period of oblivion; its admirers will continue to read and re-read it." (Printing and the Mind of Man, 120).
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Burton, Robert (Democritus Junior). THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY: WHAT IT IS, WITH ALL THE KINDS, CAUSES, SYMPTOMES, PROGNOSTICS, AND SEVERAL CURES OF IT
Boston William Veazie 1859 "A New Edition" Spines just very slightly faded, about fine
Three volumes. vi, [7]-500p; [1]-467p; [1]-514p. Engraved frontispiece duplicates that of the first edition, but in reduced 8vo size. Bound in quarter scarlet morocco with marbled sides, endpapers, and text block edges, the spines with black leather titles labels gilt and with rather fancy gilt ornamentation
"The Anatomy, as its publishing history shows, was one of the most popular books of the seventeenth century. All the learning of the age as well as its humor-and its pedantry-are there. It... exercised a considerable influence on the thought of the time. Dr. Johnson deeply admired it, and Charles Lamb's often and strongly expressed devotion served to rescue the Anatomy from a brief period of oblivion; its admirers will continue to read and re-read it." Printing and the Mind of Man 120.
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