[BURTON, Robert]. The Anatomy of Melancholy. What it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & severall cures of it. In three partitions... By Democritus Junior... Oxford: Printed for Henry Cripps (by John Lichfield) 1632.
Fourth edition, “corrected and augmented by the Author”, folio, (viii), 78, (6), 218, (4), 219-722, (9 Index, 1) pp. Engraved title page with the explanatory leaf “The Argument of the Frontispiece” opposite, outer edge of the engraved title trimmed with very slight loss to the images, some occasional light marks and browning. Recently and finely rebound in period style full calf, ornamental gilt panel and central ornament to covers, gilt rules to edges, gilt spine with a red label. £3,500
“...the most frequently reprinted psychiatric text. It may properly be called the first psychiatric cyclopaedia for nearly one thousand authors are cited, about half of them medical...” (Hunter & MacAlpine pp 94-9, including an illustration of the title page of this edition).
“...if ever a single book deserved to be called the work of a lifetime, it is this. Burton had read much, and all that he had read, or nearly all, was refined and incorporated in the ‘Anatomy’... All the learning of the age as well as its humour - and its pedantry - are there...” (Printing and the Mind of Man 120).
STC 4162. First published eleven years earlier in 1621. This edition not in Wellcome.
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