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The anatomy of melancholy : vvhat it is, vvith all the kindes, causes, symptomes, prognosticks, and seuerall cures of it : in three maine partitions, with their seuerall sections, members, and subsections

Title
The anatomy of melancholy : vvhat it is, vvith all the kindes, causes, symptomes, prognosticks, and seuerall cures of it : in three maine partitions, with their seuerall sections, members, and subsections / philosophically, medicinally, historically, opened and cut up by Democritus Iunior ; with a satyricall preface, conducing to the following discourse.
Author
Burton, Robert, 1577-1640.
Publication
At Oxford : Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, ao. Dom. 1624.

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[4], 64, [4], 557 [i.e. 573], [7] p.; 30 cm. (fol.)
Subjects
Note
  • Signatures: a-g⁴ h⁶ A-4D⁴.
  • Paging irregular. Four unnumbered pages follow p. 188, 2 follow p. 232; nos. 391-400 repeated.
  • Printer's device on t.p.; type flower headpieces; ornamental initials.
  • "Tobacco, diuine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes farre beyond all their panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a soueraigne remedy to all diseases"--P. 309.
  • Errata: p. 64 (2nd group).
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (in side notes) and index.
Indexed In (note)
  • Brunet
  • Grässe
  • STC (2nd ed.)
  • Madan
  • Smith, P.J. Bib. Burtoniana
Call Number
Arents 94-438
OCLC
NYPG94-B39721
Author
Burton, Robert, 1577-1640.
Title
The anatomy of melancholy : vvhat it is, vvith all the kindes, causes, symptomes, prognosticks, and seuerall cures of it : in three maine partitions, with their seuerall sections, members, and subsections / philosophically, medicinally, historically, opened and cut up by Democritus Iunior ; with a satyricall preface, conducing to the following discourse.
Imprint
At Oxford : Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, ao. Dom. 1624.
Edition
The second edition / corrected and augmented by the author.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (in side notes) and index.
Indexed In:
Brunet, I, col. 1415
Grässe, I, p. 579
STC (2nd ed.) 4160
Madan 521
Smith, P.J. Bib. Burtoniana, p. 81, no. 2
Local Note
Provenance: William Blomfield (autograph on t.p. in a contemporary hand; partly obliterated inscription on p. [1] (1st group)).
Latin ms. inscription (5 lines, the last a quotation from Catullus) in an early hand on recto of back flyleaf.
Binding: Contemporary mottled calf, with a gilt lozenge ornament and blind-impressed initials T E and traces of clasps.
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Local Subject
Blomfield, William Provenance.
Research Call Number
Arents 94-438
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