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1813Best.-Nr. 001110London: J Walker; R. Lea; J. Cuthell et al. 1813. Hardcover. See Description. Eleventh edition 1813 printing. 8vo. 2 volumes. Volume I pp. xxiv 121 1 461 1. Volume II pp. 2 612. Bound in full modern tan calf after period style with spine gilt in 6 compartments. Interior pages are generally very clean with occasional faint foxing. Robert Burton's psychiatric study "Anatomy of Melancholy" first printed in London 1621 is a learned work on various types of melancholia. The author cites numerous authorities and includes much curious lore about customs treatments secrets of nature psychology witchcraft dreams sickness demons ghosts and apparitions. Burton himself may have suffered from melancholia/depression. The 8th edition of Burton's book appeared in 1676. Authors such as Milton Johnson and Sterne found inspiration with Burton. Nevertheless in the 18th century the book fell into obscurity with no editions being issued. Interest in Burton's work increased during the Romantic Period and in 1800 J. Cundee published a 9th edition with corrections and with an account of the author's life. Other editions with further corrections and notes came out during the 19th century. Burton's work is now considered a classic of English literature. The first printing of the 11th edition by Vernor Hood & Sharpe appeared in 1806. This J. Walker; R. Lea; J. Cuthell printing of the 11th edition appeared in 1813. Wellcome II 278 citing the first volume for this edition or see copy at the Wellcome Collection online. J Walker; R. Lea; J. Cuthell [et al.] hardcover
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1836Best.-Nr. 000455London: B. Blake 13 Bell Yard Tmple Bar. 1836. Original half brown calf with original period spine and end papers professionally relaid retaining 90% of original spine. Marbled boards and endsheets. Frontispiece with negligible dampstaining also to flyleaf. Previous owner's name on flyleaf and another owner's stamped name also on same. 744 pages. Overall FAIR PLUS condition. Digital photos upon request. The Anatomy of Melancholy Full title The Anatomy of Melancholy What it is: With all the Kinds Causes Symptomes Prognostickes and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections Members and Subsections. Philosophically Historically Opened and Cut up. is a book written by Robert Burton which was first published 1621. The book is on its surface a medical textbook in which Burton applies his large and varied learning in the Scholastic manner to the subject of melancholia. Each section piles on ancient and mediæval medical authorities from Hippocrates Aristotle and Galen forward and adds to these ancient examples a great deal of Latin poetry. Burton defines his subject this way: Melancholy the subject of our present discourse is either in disposition or in habit. In disposition is that transitory Melancholy which goes and comes upon every small occasion of sorrow need sickness trouble fear grief passion or perturbation of the mind any manner of care discontent or thought which causes anguish dulness heaviness and vexation of spirit any ways opposite to pleasure mirth joy delight causing frowardness in us or a dislike. In which equivocal and improper sense we call him melancholy that is dull sad sour lumpish ill-disposed solitary any way moved or displeased. And from these melancholy dispositions no man living is free no Stoick none so wise none so happy none so patient so generous so godly so divine that can vindicate himself; so well-composed but more or less some time or other he feels the smart of it. Melancholy in this sense is the character of Mortality.This Melancholy of which we are to treat is a habit a serious ailment a settled humour as Aurelianus and others call it not errant but fixed: and as it was long increasing so now being pleasant or painful grown to a habit it will hardly be removed. Over the course of the book Burton draws from nearly every science of his day including psychology physiology astronomy astrology demonology meteorology and theology. In fact much of the book consists of quotations from various authorities and Burton fills the Anatomy with more or less pertinent references to the works of others. The Anatomy of Melancholy is a particularly lengthy book. The first edition printed as a single quarto volume was nearly 900 pages long and subsequent editions only added to that total. The text is partitioned into three major sections plus an introduction each arranged in Burton's sprawling style. characteristically the introduction includes not only an author's note titled "Democritus Junior to the Reader" but also a Latin poem "Democritus Junior to His Book" a warning to "The Reader Who Employs His Leisure Ill" an abstract of the following text and another poem explaining the frontispiece. The following three sections proceed in a similarly exhaustive fashion: the first section focuses on the causes and symptoms of "common" melancholies while the second section deals with cures for melancholy and the third section explores more complex and esoteric melancholies including the melancholy of lovers and all varieties of religious melancholies. The Anatomy concludes with an extensive index which many years later The New York Times Book Review called "a readerly pleasure in itself".; additionally most modern editions of the book are supplemented with many pages of explanatory notes for the reader. Throughout the book Burton's digressive and inclusive style often verging on a stream of consciousness consistently informs and animates the text. Though nominally a medical book the Anatomy is "vitalized by Burton's pervading humour" and is as much a sui generis work of literature as it is a scientific or philosophical text. The Anatomy of Melancholy has been admired by many subsequent writers from Samuel Johnson Charles Lamb and John Keats who professed it to be his favourite book to Stanley Fish Philip Pullman and Jorge Luis Borges who used a quote as an epigraph to his story "The Library of Babel". Despite its age The Anatomy of Melancholy is still considered an enduring if eccentric literary classic by many modern critics. UncleAndy. Seventh Edition. Half Calf Leather. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. B. Blake, 13, Bell Yard, Tmple Bar. Hardcover
Best.-Nr. blb05698Good. Two Volumes of the Original Two Volume Set - Conditions the same for both unless noted: Leather quarter-bound to spine and corners over marbled paper on boards. Gilt lettering and tooling to spine. Books are tight square and free of major flaws or markings although edges and corners are worn with age and use text block edges are browned and gilt to spine is moderately faded. Interior is clean with only minor spotting throughout. Volume I has a gift inscription on ffep - A.R. Thurlow from L.F.B. in hope that his ___ may be hereby improved Oct 19th 1900. On its surface the book is presented as a medical textbook in which Burton applies his vast and varied learning in the scholastic manner to the subject of melancholia which includes although it is not limited to what is now termed clinical depression. Although presented as a medical text The Anatomy of Melancholy is as much a sui generis unique work of literature as it is a scientific or philosophical text and Burton addresses far more than his stated subject. In fact the Anatomy uses melancholy as the lens through which all human emotion and thought may be scrutinized and virtually the entire contents of a 17th-century library are marshalled into service of this goal. It is encyclopedic in its range and reference. hardcover
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1855Best.-Nr. 000654Philadelphia: J W Moore 1855. 7th Edition . Half Leather. Very Good/N/A. Marble boards with Calf spine and corners. Bands to spine with red leather title label.Hinges a bit worn and corners bumped and scuffed a bit but overall this is a very good exterior for this book. Previous owner's stamp "Private library of S.E. Neikirk". The end papers are foxed as is the frontispiece of the original edition. The text and adverts for medical books in the back are clean tight and bright. J W Moore hardcover
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1989Best.-Nr. 053691Oxford University Clarendon Press 1989. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Large Octavo. OXFORD : 1989. Printed in the UK by A. Rowe Printers. Hardback. Edited by Thomas C. Faulkner Nicolas K. Kiessling Rhonda L. Blair ; with an introduction by J.B. Bamborough. Volume 1. Original dark-blue cloth; gilt lettered spine. No owner name or internal markings. Minor wear only. VERY GOOD. lxii 675 pages. Index. Heavy volume; extra postage needed outside the UK. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. 8vo. Rosley Books for Antiquarian books CHS Cumberland Everyman GKC Inklings Keswick Literature MacDonald Rarities Theology and History. . SCARCE. Oxford University Clarendon Press hardcover
1932Best.-Nr. 054302London: J.M. Dent & Co Aldine House 1932. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good Plus. 8vo. Facsimile Frontispiece of 1652 Edition. LONDON : 1932. 3 volumes; hardback. Complete. Introduction by Holbrook Jackson. Original black ribbed-cloth; gilt lettered and decorated spines to upper half. Patterned end-papers. Facsimile of orig. Frontispiece of 1652 Edition. Neat owner name to each vol. No internal markings. Bright tight and clean. Minor use only. A lovely set. Nos. 886 887 888 of Burton's classic Anatomy of Melancholy; this edition based on the 6th 1651-52 and includes all the Latin quotations together with translations made specially for this edition spelling and punctuation modernised new glossary; introduction by Holbrook Jackson. Bright tight and clean. Minor wear only. VERY GOOD INDEED. xix 523 v 312 v 547 pages. Index. Sm.8vo. 3 vols; extra postage needed on orders outside the UK. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. Rosley Books for Antiquarian books CHS Cumberland Everyman GKC Inklings Keswick Literature MacDonald Rarities Theology and History. . Dent Everyman Library No. 886 887 888. J.M. Dent & Co, Aldine House hardcover
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1827Best.-Nr. 18286Longman Rees Orme etc. 1827. Book. Very Good. Hard Covers. The Thirteenth Edition corrected. Half calf. Marbled endpapers. Gilt title on spine. Light wear to corners and to spine ends. Hinges are sound. Two Volumes. Bookplate in each volume. Longman, Rees, Orme, etc. Hardcover
1880Best.-Nr. 4373New York: A. C. Armstrong and Son. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1880. Hardcover. With a satirical preface . A New Edition corrected and enriched by translations of the numerous classical exrtacts. Set complete in three volumes uniformly bound with matching leather spines and corners spines with gilt-lettered brown and blue labels and gilt decorations all page edges marbled marbled endpapers Volume I with reproduction of engraved frontipiece from Sixth Edition. Heavy extra for international postage.; 5-1/4" x 7-1/2"; 500467514 pp; A nicely preserved set with but minor faults. All volumes have small rubbed areas and light edgewear Volume III only with 1" sunned area across top of front board. Hinges are without wear. A few pages with minor corner wear; no ownership inscriptions clean and unmarked pages. . A. C. Armstrong and Son hardcover
1804Best.-Nr. 27875London: Vernor and Hood Etc. Fair with no dust jacket. 1804. Tenth Edition. Cloth. The hinges are tight on both volumes but the cloth no so much. The spine on volue 1 is loose on one edge and the top of the spine on volume 2 is chipped. Both are rubbed at the corners and along the spine. Contents are very good to fine. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 46160110 pages . Vernor and Hood, Etc. hardcover
1864Best.-Nr. 004153William Veazie Boston; Hurd and Houghton New York 1864. A New Edition . Hardcover. Good -/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. The Anatomy of Melancholy what it is with all the kinds causes symptoms prognostics and several cures of it. In Three Partitions with their several sections members and subsections philosophically medically historically opened and cut up. By Democritus Junior with a satirical preface conduing to the following discourse." Books are maroon hardcover with wear corners are bumped spines are faded to brown with gilt lettering. Volume 1 has a split spine on the first page although all pages are tight. A good set of copies for reading. William Veazie, Boston; Hurd and Houghton, New York hardcover
1827Best.-Nr. 0011701London: Longman Rees Orme and Co. 1827. Thirteenth and Extended Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavos; 401 612 pages later three-quarter speckled calf extra-gilt spines cloth marbled endpapers rehinged and with repairs to tips of spines covers incompletely but firmly attached. Bound by Riviere & Son for H. Sotheran London. This edition has prefixed An Account Of The Author. "The first psychiatric encyclopedia citing nearly 500 medical authors and also a literary tour de force. Burton was prompted to write this book because of his own bouts with depression. It is one of the most popular psychiatric books ever written appearing in over 70 editions since its original publication. It was one of Sir William Osler's favourite books." - Garrison-Morton 4918.1. "Burton had read much and all that he had read . was incorporated in the Anatomy. . if ever a single book deserved to be called the work of a lifetime it is this. . All the learning of the age as well as its humour - and its pedantry - are there. It has something in common with Brant's 'Ship of Fools' Erasmus's 'Praise of Folly' and More's 'Utopia' with Rabelais and Montaigne and like these it exercised a considerable influence on the thought of the time." - PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 118. Note: the first six editions each had corrections or additions by the author. Longman, Rees, Orme, and Co. hardcover
1826Best.-Nr. 269269Glasgow: R. Griffin & Co 1826. Hardcover. Very Good. New edition. 8vo. Volume two only of two. Three quarter leather cover with cloth boards. Top edge gilt. Very good. Bookplate inside front cover. Front hinge slightly cracked. Corners lightly rubbed. Leather spine lightly rubbed. R. Griffin & Co hardcover
1890Best.-Nr. 190Excellent condition Volume III only-------- Dana Estes hardcover
1857Best.-Nr. D4633London: William Tegg 1857. Hardcover. Very Good. Half calf and marbled paper over boards lavishly gilt-stamped compartmented spine gilt-stamped lettering in red leather spine label endpapers and all edges marbled. With a reproduction of the frontispiece to the original edition. Moderate scuffing on boards spine tips and along edges of boards; corners lightly bumped. A worn but pretty copy with bright gilt. Internally clean. William Tegg hardcover
1855Best.-Nr. 18671'Seventh edition'. Good hardcover no DJ. Half calf leather with spot pattern marbled paper over boards; raised bands on spine; spot pattern marbled end papers. Cover marbled papers partially rubbed through to boards; rubbed at fore corners to boards; spine title panel lacking; all textblock edges blue stained apparently by owner; slight blue tinge dye tinge on covers; spine leather intact and supple - no cracking at joints; tightly bound; free end papers lacking; cloth reinforced at front and rear end paper hinges; foxing on several prelim and terminal leaves; light clean interior with occasional light foxing; supple leaves. With all three partitions - complete in one volume. Large 8vo 670 pp; index. See OCLC #682392487. Philadelphia: J.W. Moore hardcover
1986Best.-Nr. 009209Classics of Medicine Library 1986. Hardcover. Very Good. Book shows very light wear/ spine tight pages clean/ leather boards show minor edge wearWe ship most books within 24 hoursCustomer satisfaction guaranteedOver 22 years of experience in the book selling community Classics of Medicine Library hardcover
1652Best.-Nr. 045029London: Crips and Lodo 1652. The front and back covers are detached from book. Spine is still attached. Cover is well worn splitting and chipped. Pages are tight browning with a few old pen markings. Owner's name tag in front. Contains 723 pages with table in back. Text is still legible. Overall in good condition considering the age of this book. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Crips and Lodo Hardcover
