Burton, Robert. The anatomy of melancholy. : What it is, with all the kinds causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & seuerall cures of it. In three partitions, with their severall sections, members & subsections, philosophically, medicinally, historically, opened & cut up. By Democritus Junior. With a satyrical preface, conducing to the following discourse

Madan, F. Oxford books: 2164
Folger bibliographic ID: 150243
ESTC number: R27822
Wing number: B6182
Folger call number: B6182 copy 1
Folger holdings ID: 134508

Edition

The sixth edition, corrected and augmented by the author

Bibliographic format

folio

General notes

Title is engraved and signed "C Le Blon fe." First leaf bears half-title, "The anatomie of melancholy.", on recto and "The argument of the frontispiece" on the verso Colophon on final leaf: "Printed by R. W. for Henry Cripps of Oxford, and are to be sold by Andrew Crook in Pauls Church-yard, and by Henry Cripps and Lodowick Lloyd in Popes-head ally. 1651." Democritus Junior = Robert Burton

Item information about Folger B6182 copy 1

cs17. Gathering P is duplicated. Provenance: inscribed on h.t.: "John: Dipple"; pencilled notation on back free endpaper: "From E. Parsons & Sons"

Extended title: The anatomy of melancholy. : What it is, with all the kinds causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & seuerall cures of it. In three partitions, with their severall sections, members & subsections, philosophically, medicinally, historically, opened & cut up. By Democritus Junior. With a satyrical preface, conducing to the following discourse

Melancholy Medicine Psychology

author: Burton, Robert, 1577-1640
former owner: Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934