Oct 17, 2011 - Sale 2256

Sale 2256 - Lot 219

Price Realized: $ 2,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
BURTON, ROBERT. The Anatomy of Melancholy. [4], 54, 51-72, [8], 194, 193-642, 645-783 pages; lacks last 4 leaves (The Conclusion of the Author and errata). 4to, 173x137 mm, 19th-century sheep gilt, quite worn, covers detached; marginal dampstaining through first half of volume, scattered stains elsewhere, worming and few rust holes in blank outer margins, title heavily soiled, with inscriptions on recto and verso and blank upper margin restored. Oxford: John Lichfield and James for Henry Cripps, 1621

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first edition of Burton's exhaustive treatise on 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; STC 4159.