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BRIGHT, TIMOTHY. A Treatise of Melancholy.Containing the Causes thereof, and Reasons of the Strange Effects it worketh in our Minds and Bodies. [20] (of [24]), 347, [1] (of [3]) pages; lacking initial and final blanks, and †2 (first leaf of table of contents). 8vo, 140x87 mm, 19th-century blue straight-grain morocco, spine ends rubbed; margins trimmed, entering some headlines, rust hole in I7 affecting a few letters. London: William Stansby, 1613
Third edition of a 1586 treatise on depression, the first work on mental illness by English physician, a key influence on Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and likely also on Shakespeare's Hamlet. Garrison-Morton 4918; Hunter & Macalpine, page 36; Norman 343 (all citing the original edition). STC 3749 (this edition).
