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 Junior. With a satyrical preface, conducing to the following discourse.
Robert Burton (1577-1640)
Category
Books
Date
1652
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3139527
Summary
Bibliographic description
[10], 78, [6], 97, 96-140, [4], 141-217, p. 454, [4], p. 216, 220-574 p., 575-577 leaves, [1], 578-723, [11] p. . fol.. Manuscript notes on half-title regarding edition; and on opening ode, [*]3r. Provenance: Pictorial bookplate (6.7x5cm): Ex Libris Rudyard Kipling AD 1894. Pictorial bookplate: Maurice Baring; [with script] "Here goes a ship with a cargo of books to the city of dreams (H. Belloc June 1907)", [Maurice Baring (1874-1945). Inscribed: "Rudyard Kipling (pessimist) but optimus poeta from Maurice Baring optimist but poeta farcissimus June. 3. 1922". Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled calf; double blind fillet borders, with quarter double blind fillet. Rebacked and repaired with calf; gilt spine; gilt lettered spine-label: Burton's Anatomy of melancholy.
Makers and roles
Robert Burton (1577-1640)