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[BURTON, ROBERT.] The Anatomy of Melancholy. [4], 64, [4], 188, [4], 189-332, [2], 333-379, 370-557, [7] pages. Folio, 269x180 mm, modern 1/2 calf; marginal soiling and dampstaining throughout with traces of mold, paper corrosion in blank lower outer corners, scattered minor marginal tears, title restored and mounted with partial loss of imprint, next leaf mounted, lower outer corner of the 2 leaves after that restored with slight text loss, hole in outer margin of h5 affecting sidenote on recto, wormtrail in middle of volume entering text. Oxford: John Lichfield and James Short for Henry Cripps, 1624
Second edition of Burton's exhaustive 1621 study of depression, one of the most popular psychiatric texts ever published. Garrison-Morton 4918.1; Hunter & Macalpine, pages 94-99; Krivatsy 1967; Norman 381; Pforzheimer 119; Printing and the Mind of Man 120 (all citing the original edition); STC 4160 (this edition).
