The anatomy of melancholy.. What it is … Philosophically, medicinally, historically opened & cut up by Democritus Junior.
Robert Burton (1577-1640)
Category
Books
Date
1628
Materials
Place of origin
Oxford
Collection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 3197197
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 77, [7]; 79, 78-208, [4], 209-374, [2], 375-584, 583-646, [12] p.. fol. Provenance:Label of ‘H. Lakin-Smith’. – Sale catalogue notice [Lot 114]. Purchased by Henry Hoare for presentation to Alda Hoare ‘On our 32nd Wedding Day Oct. 4th 1920 (Not melancholy but happy years’ –our 32nd in red). – Plate of Alda Hoare. – Attached p. 2 of an ALs ‘from our cousin (and descendant of the author writing after Oxford in 1920): (refers to visit to Weymouth). – Also inserted two leaves (one loose) setting out the ‘argument of the frontispiece’ – Some markings in the text Binding: Sprinkled calf, blind-tooled. – Boards cracked
Makers and roles
Robert Burton (1577-1640) Jacob Christoff Le Blon (1667 - 1741)