The anatomy of melancholy : what it is, with all the kinds auses, symptomes, prognostickes, & seuerall cures of it, in three partitions, with their severall sections, members, & subsections, philosophically, medicinally, historically opened & 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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The anatomy of melancholy : what it is, with all the kinds auses, symptomes, prognostickes, & seuerall cures of it, in three partitions, with their severall sections, members, & subsections, philosophically, medicinally, historically opened & cut up / By Democritus Junior [i.e. Robert Burton]. With a satyricall preface conducing to the following discourse. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed for Peter Parker ..., 1676.

Physical description

8 unnumbered pages, 46 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 434 pages, 10 unnumbered pages ; 32 cm (folio)

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The eighth edition /

References note

Wing B6184
Madan, F. Burton and the anatomy of melancholy p. 197.
ESTC R10536
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), B6184

Notes

Engraved, illustrated t.p., by C. le Blon
"The argument of the frontispiece" (verses explaining the images on the engraved title), half title verso
Colophon: Printed by R.W. for Peter Parker. R.W. may be Robert White.--cf. Madan
Publishers' advertisements: final leaf. s
Index: p. [435-442]
Errors in pagination: p. 188, 227, 247, 303, 350, 352-3, 394 are numbered 170, 267, 347, 301, 342, 372-3, 294 respectively
Signatures: [A4] B-3R4
Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: P.J. Hilton Note: Binding: Later calf, rebacked. Bookplates of Theod. H. Broadhead (d. 1810. Born Brinckman and assumed the name of Broadhead.--cf. Franks 3772) and Richard Henry Tidswell. Book label of George Harwood. Engravings of James Boswell and Samuel Johnson affixed to front endpaper

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