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The Anatomy of Melancholy. What it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & severall cures of it. In three Partitions, with their severall Sections, members & subsections. Philosophicaly, Medicinally, Historically opened & c by Burton, Robert
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Book desription: Oxford: L. Lichfield for H. Cripps, 1638. Folio, 11 x 7.2 inches. Fifth edition. [¹]3, ¤2, A-K4, A-R4, S6, T-Z4, Aa-Hh4, Ii6, Kk4-Zz4, Aaaa-Eeee4, Ffff2, Gggg-Zzzz4, Aaaaa4. This edition has the charming pictorial engraved title-page by C. Le Blon, which depicts types of melancholy. The edition also contains the "Argument of the frontispiece" leaf, quite often lacking. This copy is bound in later full calf, rebacked. Some very light browning, occasional spotting, but overall a really nice copy with ample margins. . Burton's classic study of depression, The Anatomy of Melancholy, "has been more frequently reprinted than almost any other psychiatric text, appearing in over seventy editions since its original publication. Burton believed depression to be both a physical and spiritual ailment. Prompted by his own bouts with the affliction, he employed his considerable erudition and wit to write what amounts to the first psychiatric encyclopedia, citing nearly 500 medical authors in the course of classifying the myriad causes, forms and symptoms of depression, and describing its various cures. The work is also a literary tour-de-force in the tradition of Renaissance paradoxical literature." (Norman)
- Bookseller: James & Devon Gray Booksellers
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- Book condition: Folio, 11 x 7.2 inches. Fifth edition. [¹]3, ¤2, A-K4, A-R4, S6, T-Z4, Aa-Hh4, Ii6, Kk4-Zz4, Aaaa-Eeee4, Ffff2, Gg
- Publisher: Oxford: L. Lichfield for H. Cripps, 1638
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