Oct 24, 2019 - Sale 2521

Sale 2521 - Lot 180

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
[BURTON, ROBERT.] The Anatomy of Melancholy . . . Fourth Edition. [10], 78, [6]; 138, 137-218, [4], 219-243, 246-308, 319-574, 573-722, [10] pages, including engraved title and preceding leaf of explanatory verse ("The Argument of the Frontispiece"). Folio, 278x180 mm, early 19th-century calf, rebacked; contents relatively clean apart from marginal dampstaining on opening leaves and marginal foxing and traces of mold on last few index leaves, with paper corrosion in lower outer corner of last leaf. STC 4162. Oxford: Henry Cripps, 1632

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Fourth edition of Burton's study of depression, and first to contain the initial leaf of verse. STC 4162.