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 by Democritus Junior [i.e. Robert Burton] - with a satyricall preface, conducing to the following discourse.

  • Burton, Robert, 1577-1640.
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Ao. Dom. 1624
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At Oxford : For Henry Cripps, Ao. Dom. 1624 (Oxford : Printed by John Lichfield and James Short)

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2 leaves, 64 pages, 2 leaves, pages 1-188, 2 leaves, pages 189-332, 1 leaf, pages 333-557, that is, 567 pages, 3 leaves ; 30 cm(folio in 4s).

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The 2nd edition /

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First folio edition.
Errors in pagination: p. 370-79 repeated; p. 371 (first) numbered 372; p. 383 numbered 389; p. 457 numbered 455.
Copy 1 Supplier: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books Note: Binding: Early calf, rebacked. Paper repairs to t.p and initial blank leaf. Provenance: From the Library of Dr John Webster of Clitheroe. His favourite signature - Johannes Hyphantes - discernible at the bottom of t.p.

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Includes bibliographical references (in side notes) and index.

References note

Arents, 222, Part V 1620-1632
Brunet, I, col. 1415
Grässe, I, p. 579
Madan 521
STC (2nd ed.) 4160
Smith, P.J. Bib. Burtoniana, p. 81, no. 2
ESTC S122247
Madan, I, p.120
STC (2nd ed.), 4160

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