Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 13

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
Burton, Robert (1577-1640)
The Anatomy of Melancholy. What it is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, & Severall Cures of it.

Oxford: Printed for Henry Cripps, 1632.



Fourth edition, folio, engraved title page with the Argument of the Frontispiece bound opposite; bound in later full calf, joints cracked, spine flaking heavily and falling apart, armorial stamp with royal motto topped with a crown on topmost spine panel; ex libris Robert H. Menzies with his bookplate inside front board; two text leaves with blank corners torn away, no loss to text; 11 x 7 in.

STC 4162; ESTC S122249.