Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 182

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
[BURTON, ROBERT.] The Anatomy of Melancholy . . . By Democritus Junior [pseud.] . . . Eighth Edition [sic]. [8], 46, [6], 434, [10] pages, including leaf of bookseller's ads at end. Folio, 311x196 mm, contemporary calf, rebacked, endpapers renewed; contents toned or browned, margins trimmed without text loss, scattered rust spots, dampstaining in gutter of dedication leaf, hole through a few letters on M1. Bookplate of Trinity College, Cambridge, on title verso and duplicate stamp dated 1859 on last page; bookplate of J. E. B. Mayor and another unidentified ("Halcyon / Lake Almanor / Burns") on front endpapers. London: (R. W. for) Peter Parker, 1676

Additional Details

Later edition of Burton's 1621 study of depression. Garrison-Morton 4918.1 (1621 original edition); Wing B6184 (this edition).