Burton, Robert and Michel de Montaigne.

[Burton, Robert.] The Anatomy of Melancholy. What it is, with all the kinds causes, symptomes, prognostickes & severall cures of it...by Democritus Junior. Oxford: for Henry Cripps, 1638, folio, fifth edition, engraved title-page, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, later calf-backed marbled boards, first leaf heavily repaired, occasional small marginal repairs, tape repair to A1 and Rrr2 affecting text, some light marginal dampstaining, upper joint splitting--Montaigne, Michel de. The Essayes or, Morall, Politike, and Militarie Discourses... M. Flesher for Rich[ard] Royston, 1632-1, folio, third edition of Florio's translation, 3 parts in one volume, additional engraved title by Martin Droeshout, two divisional titles, woodcut headpieces and initials, early marginalia on a few pages, engraved portrait tipped in before first leaf, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, first three and last two leaves crudely remargined or repaired, repairs to corners of I gathering, light marginal dampstaining to a few gatherings, wear to extremities (2) sold not subject to return

[Anatomy of Melancholy:] George Burton, Trinity College, Cambridge, near-contemporary ownership inscription (with price paid) on first leaf; William Mayneord of Warwickshire, book-label; Robert John Verney, Lord Willoughby de Broke, armorial bookplate

[Anatomy of Melancholy:] STC 4163; Madan I, p.204; [Essayes:] STC 18043

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a masterpiece of elizabethan translation: Florio's Montaigne influenced Shakespeare, Jonson, Webster and Samuel Daniel.