The anatomy of melancholy : What it is, with all the kinds causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & seuerall cures of it. In three partitions, with their severall sections, members & subsections. Philosophically, medicinally, historically, opened & cut up. By. Democritus Iunior. With a satyricall preface, conducing to the following discourse.

  • Burton, Robert, 1577-1640
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1638
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Anatomie of melancholy.

Publication/Creation

Oxford : Printed [by Robert Young, Edinburgh, 1635?, by Miles Flesher, London, 1638, and by Leonard Lichfield and William Turner, Oxford] for Henry Cripps, 1638.

Physical description

10 unnumbered pages, 78 pages, 6 unnumbered pages; 97, 96-140 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 141-218 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 219-262, 261-723 pages, 11 unnumbered pages

Edition

The fift edition, corrected and augmented by the author.

References note

STC (2nd ed.) 4163.
Madan, I, p. 204.

Notes

Democritus Junior = Robert Burton.
The title page is engraved and signed: C: le Blon. fe:.
Printers' names from STC. For an account of the printing history of this edition see "Oxford Bib. Soc. Proceedings & Papers" I (1922-6), p. 194-7.
Half-title reads: The anatomie of melancholy.
The actual text begins new pagination and register.
Includes index.
2L1, intended to be canceled, is retained in many copies.
Variant: with an additional letterpress title page dated 1638.
Reproduction of the original in Cambridge University Library.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 634:1) s1999 miun s

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