Mar 08, 2007 - Sale 2107

Sale 2107 - Lot 79

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
BURTON, ROBERT. The Anatomy of Melancholy. [10], 78, [6], 723 [i.e. 737], [11] pages, including engraved title and preceding leaf of explanatory text. Folio, contemporary calf, rebacked, endpapers renewed; initial leaf soiled, with stains and early ink scrawls, modern owner's stamp on title, early notes in ink in some upper margins. London: Hen: Crip[p]s & Lodo: Lloyd, 1652

Additional Details

Sixth edition, the last to contain additions by Burton, prepared posthumously from his notes; second issue, with 1652 London instead of 1651 Oxford imprint. Wing B6182 (this edition).