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The Anatomy of Melancholy
réf. 1020342552.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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1860réf. 059433London: William Tegg 1860. New Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good. Large Octavo. Facsimile Frontispiece of 1652 Edition. LONDON : 1860. First published in 1621. This edition undated; circa 1860. Hardback. Later rebind in dark-blue strong-grained cloth; gilt lettered spine. No owner name or internal markings. Minor dulling to spine only. VERY GOOD INDEED. xx 747 pages. Index. Bright tight and clean. Over 1.2 kilos; some extra postage needed outside the UK. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping. Lg.8vo. London: William Tegg. SCARCE. William Tegg hardcover
réf. 1020342552.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
réf. 1020720433.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1907réf. 323206London: Chatto & Windus 1907. Hardcover. Fair. 747p. A burgundy-red cloth hardcover book in good condition. Edges rubbed and spine slightly faded. Pale spotty stains on front. Clippings pasted inside covers and owner's lengthy nottes on front and back free endpapers. Scattered pencil marginalia but majority of pages clean and binding tight. 17th-century treatise on clinical depression. The frontispiece is a reproduction of the title page of the third edition of 1628. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1826réf. 109777London: R. Griffin & Company 1826. Hardcover. Very Good. New edition. Very good copy with some foxing throughout. R. Griffin & Company hardcover
réf. 1143969537.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1850réf. 284417Philadelphia: J. W. Moore 1850. Hardcover. Fair. New edition later printing. Three quarter leather with marbled boards. Poor with front board detached but present stamps and owner gift inscription on front fly foxing on tissue to frontispiece cover edges worn. J. W. Moore hardcover
réf. 1437003540.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1838réf. 105956London: B. Blake. 1838. Large octavo full leather binding gilt lettering and decorated rules to spine blindstamped design in panels to spine gilt stamped rule and blindstamped decoration to borders of boards marbled endpapers all edges marbled engraved frontispiece based on the famous frontispiece of 1628 with numerous illustrated panels "drawn and engraved expressly for this edition" by C. Freeman pp viii 743. Rubbed to the head and foot of the spine some rubbing to edges some off-setting to frontispiece from tissue-guard. Small inscription nineteenth century 'Edwin Palmer for H.W. Fisher' to the reverse of the front free endpaper. Very good condition. Robert Burton's seventeenth-century classic was first published in 1621. The work overwent considerable expansions and revisions during the author's lifetime but this edition is taken from its final form. The work is on its surface a quasi-medical text dealing with "melancholia" depression but overall it is an encyclopedic often comic approach to life philosophy and literature. Burton wrote it under the pseudonym Democritus Junior as a reference to the Ancient Greek "laughing philosopher" Democritus. A review of a recent reprint described the work as "Made out of all the books that existed in a 17th-century library it was compiled in order to explain and account for all human emotion and thought." This is a handsomely bound 1838 edition in excellent condition. 16th edition. B. Blake hardcover
réf. 3375123248.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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1836réf. 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
réf. 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
réf. 3375123256.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1855réf. 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
réf. 1164619004.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
réf. 9354211593.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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réf. 1015930506.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1881réf. 030508E. Claxton & Company. Fair. 1881. Cloth. 670 pages beautiful engraved title page brown pebble cloth which has a split along the top edge of the spine about 3 inches probably reparable otherwise sound endpapers splitting along the hinges though they are still sound paper a bit browned but strong and no foxing.; 8vo . E. Claxton & Company hardcover
1989réf. 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
1827réf. 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
1880réf. 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
1827réf. 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
1826réf. 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
