(Burton, Robert)

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

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Description

The Anatomy of Melancholy, What It Is, With all the Kindes, Causes, Symptoms, Prognostickes, and Severall Cures of It. In Three Maine Partitions with their severall Sections, Members, and Subsections. Oxford: John Lichfield and James short for Henry Crippes, 1621
paper, ink, leather

Small 4to (7 x 5 1/4 in.; 177 x 133 mm). Three woodcut initials, typographic headpieces; title-page soiled, some leaves with marginal staining, some headlines closely trimmed, p. 759 misnumbered 459, lacks errata leaf at end. Later diced calf gilt, marbled endpapers; backstrip laid down, some wear.

Provenance

Harriett Pullman Schermerhorn (with Carolands bookplate; Parke Bernet, 2 April 1957, lot 70)

Literature

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

Catalogue Note

First edition. "All the learning of the age as well as its humour—and pedantry—are there" (PMM). The four subsequent lifetime editions of The Anatomy of Melancholy omitted "The Conculsion of the author to the Reader," which contains the only appearance of Burton's name in the first edition; the title-page credits the work to "Democritis junior."