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.
Robert Burton (1577-1640)
Category
Books
Date
1638
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3222891
Summary
Bibliographic description
The fift edition, corrected and augmented by the author.. [10], 78, [6]; 97, 96-140, [2], 141-218, [4], 219-262, 261-723, [11] p., plate. fol. Leaf 2L1 is present. Preliminary Leaves of the synopsis of the first partition torn with slight loss of text and remounted. Occasional manuscript marginalia in seventeenth-century hand. With a small leaf of lined paper laid in, headed (in ink in the hand of RW Ketton-Cremer) “Anatomy of Melancholy. 5th edition.” Followed by a list of page numbers and headings, e.g. “434 original source of Keats’ ‘Lamia’”. Provenance: inscribed R.W. Ketton-Cremer [i.e. Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)]; under this “This book belonged to my great-grandfather John Bayly, and was given to me by his daughter Anna Bayly shortly before her death in 1927. R.W.K.C." Manuscript on endpaper in seventeenth-century script: “And art thou junior. Brave Democritus!/ Profound, well-read, discreet, Ingenious,/My Praises doe disgrais; they Golden pen/ My wit’s too weake, turn backe and read agen/ Samuell Bengoe”. Various examples of penmanship, including “George Peppin his booke”; George Peppin ejus liber”; "John Byam pretium 12d 1650”; “E libris Johannis Gardner Empt e Johanni Pippin 1681 preti 6s:8d.” Binding: seventeenth-century full calf, rebacked and with lining papers replaced, sewn onto five bands; double blind fillets on boards; spine label: Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy. Red-stained edges. Bookshoe.
Makers and roles
Robert Burton (1577-1640) Jacob Christoff Le Blon (1667 - 1741)