BURTON, Robert (1577-1640)]. The Anatomy of Melancholy, what it is. With all the kindes, causes, symptomes, prognostickes, and severall cures of it. Oxford: John Lichfield and James Short for Henry Cripps, 1621.
BURTON, Robert (1577-1640)]. The Anatomy of Melancholy, what it is. With all the kindes, causes, symptomes, prognostickes, and severall cures of it. Oxford: John Lichfield and James Short for Henry Cripps, 1621. Chancery 4 o (174 x 129 mm). Woodcut initials and headpieces, typographical ornaments. (Trimmed closely, E2 with tiny rust hole, some minor staining.) 20th-century red morocco gilt, edges gilt, by Riviere and Son. FIRST EDITION of the classic study on depression. Numerous editions attest its early popularity. Its treatment is encyclopedic, with long digressions, and the book's influence - literary and psychiatric - has never waned. "The Anatomy... was one of the most popular books of the seventeenth century. All the learning of the age as well as its humour--and its pedantry--are there. It has something in common with Brant's 'Ship of Fools', Erasmus's 'Praise of Folly', and More's 'Utopia', with Rabelais and Montaigne and like all these it exercised a considerable influence on the thought of the time. Dr Johnson deeply admired it, and Charles Lamb's often and strongly expressed devotion served to rescue the Anatomy from a brief period of oblivion..." ( PMM ). Grolier English 18; Grolier Langland to Wither 30 ; NLM/Krivatsy 1967; Norman 381; Jordan-Smith 1; PMM 120; STC 4159.
BURTON, Robert (1577-1640)]. The Anatomy of Melancholy, what it is. With all the kindes, causes, symptomes, prognostickes, and severall cures of it. Oxford: John Lichfield and James Short for Henry Cripps, 1621.
BURTON, Robert (1577-1640)]. The Anatomy of Melancholy, what it is. With all the kindes, causes, symptomes, prognostickes, and severall cures of it. Oxford: John Lichfield and James Short for Henry Cripps, 1621. Chancery 4 o (174 x 129 mm). Woodcut initials and headpieces, typographical ornaments. (Trimmed closely, E2 with tiny rust hole, some minor staining.) 20th-century red morocco gilt, edges gilt, by Riviere and Son. FIRST EDITION of the classic study on depression. Numerous editions attest its early popularity. Its treatment is encyclopedic, with long digressions, and the book's influence - literary and psychiatric - has never waned. "The Anatomy... was one of the most popular books of the seventeenth century. All the learning of the age as well as its humour--and its pedantry--are there. It has something in common with Brant's 'Ship of Fools', Erasmus's 'Praise of Folly', and More's 'Utopia', with Rabelais and Montaigne and like all these it exercised a considerable influence on the thought of the time. Dr Johnson deeply admired it, and Charles Lamb's often and strongly expressed devotion served to rescue the Anatomy from a brief period of oblivion..." ( PMM ). Grolier English 18; Grolier Langland to Wither 30 ; NLM/Krivatsy 1967; Norman 381; Jordan-Smith 1; PMM 120; STC 4159.
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