[BURTON, Robert.] The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognosticks, & severall cures of it […] by Democritus Junior […] The Second edition, corrected and augm

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‘All the Learning of the Age as Well as its Humour – and Its Pedantry – Are There’ [BURTON, Robert.] The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognosticks, severall cures of it […] by Democritus Junior […] The Second edition, corrected and augmented by the Author. Oxford: John Lichfield and James Short for Henry Cripps. 1624. Folio. Twentieth-century full brown mottled morocco, boards triple-filleted in blind, raised bands, spine blind-filleted in compartments with central gilt floral ornaments; pp. [4], 64; [4], 188, [4], 189–332, [2], 333–379, 370–557, [7]; a–g4 h6 A–Z4 2A–2Z4 3A–3Z4 4A–4D4; printer’s device of the University of Oxford to title, woodcut initials and headpieces, printed marginalia; paperflaw to f. E4 with resultant closed L-shaped marginal tear at foot (touching text but without loss), occasional spots, light marginal dampstaining to last three quires, small rust mark to f. 3P3 with minute hole touching two characters; occasional early underlining, early manicules to 2 pp., minute later marginal marks in pink ink to first few pp.; occasional spots, and a few small marks in pink ink, else bright and clean; a very good copy. The first folio edition, and second edition overall (first 1621), of one of the most influential and intellectually ambitious works in English literature, at once a medical treatise on melancholy, a philosophical compendium, and a vast literary commonplace book. Robert Burton (1577–1640), scholar of Chr

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