Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts

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Lot 126
  • 126

Burton, Robert

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Burton, Robert
  • The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is. With all the Kindes, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. Oxford: by Iohn Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1621.
  • ink, paper, leather
4to (7 3/8 x 5 3/8 ins.; 190 x 137 mm). With the scarce errata leaf at the end. Woodcut initial and headpiece; small hole to X3 losing two or three letters. Contemporary calf with single gilt rule and central device to covers, spine gilt with raised bands and red morocco label (possibly slightly later); some minor rubbing to gilt on upper cover, ties lacking, small piece supplied at spine head with another supplied at bottom of upper joint, short splits to calf over joints at spine head with one cord barely exposed. Old cloth case.

Provenance

Edward Hubert Litchfield (bookplate; Parke-Bernet Galleries, 3 December 1951, lot 143). acquisition: John Fleming

Literature

STC 4159; ESTC122275; Church 210; Grolier/English 18; Grolier/Langland to Wither 30; Pforzheimer 119; PMM 120

Catalogue Note

First Edition, a true rarity in a contemporary binding and with the errata leaf present.