May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 195

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
Burton, Robert (1577-1640)
The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it is.

Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short for Henry Cripps, 1624.

Second edition, first folio edition, bound in full contemporary speckled English calf, front board detached, newer gilt-tooled title to spine, large portion of pastedown torn away, lacking vertical half of front flyleaf, old signature crossed out on title, some scattered marginalia, 11 3/4 x 7 1/4 in.

STC 4160; ESTC S122247; Heirs of Hippocrates 406; Garrison-Morton Norman 4818:1; Osler 4621.