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
- Date:
- 1638
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About this work
Also known as
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.
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.
References note
STC (2nd ed.) 4163.
Madan, I, p. 204.
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