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 satyricall preface, conducing to the following discourse.

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Main Author: Burton, Robert, 1577-1640.
Related Names: Cripps, Henry, active 1620-1642, bookseller.
Young, Robert, -1643, printer.
Turner, William, -1643, printer.
Lichfield, Leonard, -1657, printer.
Flesher, Miles, -1664, printer.
Le Blon, Christof, -1665, engraver.
Language(s): English
Published: Oxford : Printed [by Robert Young, Edinburgh, 1635?, by Miles Flesher, London, 1638, and by Leonard Lichfield and William Turner, Oxford] for Henry Cripps, 1638.
Edition: The fift [sic] edition, corrected and augmented by the author.
Subjects: Melancholy.
Dépression.
Mélancolie > Mélancolie / Ouvrages avant 1800.
Depression
Depression, Mental.
Melancholy > Melancholy / Early works to 1800.
Annotations (Provenance)
Early works.
Note: Includes index.
Errata on leaf 5A4 recto.
Numerous errors in pagination.
Illustrated engraved title page, head-pieces, initials; printed marginal notes.
Signatures: [sec.]⁴([sec. 1]+chi1) ²[sec.]² A-K⁴ ²A-R⁴ S⁶ T-2H⁴ 2I⁶ 2K⁴ 2L⁴( -2L1) 2M-4E⁴ 4F² 4G-5A⁴.
Variant: Synopsis of the first partition ( ²[sec.]²) bound in at end of First partition, after leaf K4.
Variant: with an additional letterpress title page dated 1638.
Leaf 2L1, intended to be cancelled, is retained in many copies.
"This edition was printed by R. Young at Edinburgh, L. Litchfield at Oxford, and W. Turner at Oxford, with cancels by M. Flesher at London"--Smith, P.J.- Bib. Burtoniana, p. 88.
Printers' names from STC. For an account of the printing history of this edition see "Oxford Bib. Soc. Proceedings & Papers" I (1922-6), p. 194-7.
Half-title reads: The anatomie of melancholy.
Engraved title page is signed: C: le Blon. fe.
Democritus Junior = Robert Burton.
Physical Description: [14], 78, [6], 97, 96-140, [2], 141-218, [4], 219-262, 261-723, [11] p. ; 29 cm. (fol.)
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