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The Anatomy of Melancholy: What It Is. With All the Kindes Causes Symptomes Prognosticks and Severall Cures of It. In Three Maine Partitions with Their Severall Sections Members and Subsections. Philosophically Medicinally Historically Opened and Cut Up

1624Best.-Nr. 140948955Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short for Henry Cripps 1624. Second Edition. Very Good. Second edition and first folio edition. iv 64 4 188 4 189-332 2 333-379 370-382 389-391 385 387-557 7 pp. Two pages misnumbered; pagination eccentricities as issued with no break to text. Printed on laid paper. Divided into three sections flanked by 41 page preface "Democritus Junior to the Reader" and 7 page index. Each section preceded by synopsis chart. Garrison-Morton 4918.1 PMM 120 Osler 4622. Small folio bound in contemporary full mottled calf rebacked with original spine laid down red leather title label to spine all edges stained red. Very Good with scuffing and cracks to leather and trivial worming; edgestain rubbed and boards exposed at corners title label slightly chipped. Contents lightly toned and rippled with faint irregular waterstaining throughout and darker staining to first 8 leaves. Antique engraved bookplate to front pastedown ownership signature dated 1846 to front free endpaper old bookseller inscriptions in ink to back pastedown. Occasional ink stains and very occasional marginalia in pencil and ink. Chipping to title page and several interior pages 3 inch tear to p.1 The Synopsis of the Second Partition and 2-1/4 inch tear to p. 499. Two tiny wormholes to pp. 479-7. Binding strong. Robert Burton 1577-1640 went to Oxford in 1593 and never left possibly due to his bouts of depression. He wrote on the subject of melancholy to relieve his own mind of its burden and over the years put together the first psychiatric encyclopedia in the English language. Burton's satirical and discursive Anatomy analyses the causes symptoms and cures of melancholy bolstered by a wide range of quotations and is a literary as well as medical classic. First published in 1621 the book was reprinted with revisions three times during Burton's lifetime and numerous times since. It was a favorite of Dr. Johnson another sufferer of depression who told Boswell that this was "the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.". Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps unknown

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