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1849ABE-1680040946499Philadelphia: J.W. Moore; New York: Wiley & Putnam 1849. Hardcover. Very Good. Tall 8vo quarter calf over blue marbled boards titles stamped in gilt over black leather 670pp. Calfskin shows some abrasions at spine fading and bumping to corners; marbled boards show a few spots of discoloration and rubbing. Pages are wholly age toned at edges and show scattered spotting and foxing with an ownership signature to front endpaper else text is unmarked. Binding square and tight. A one volume edition of Robert Burton's classic of medical literature psychology and satire structured in three partitions. Prints the complete text of the New Edition with a facsimile frontispiece of the Sixth Edition the first complete volume. A lovely nineteenth century fine binding example this being a very handsome copy. Philadelphia: J.W. Moore; New York: Wiley & Putnam hardcover
1883H126London: Chatto and Windus 1883. New Edition . Brown buckram Gilt. Vg. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xviii747 32pp pub. cat. dated October 1886. Facsimile of original frontispiece. Tissue guard of the frontis. foxed affecting the title page some under-lining in neat hand of the first 18 pages and the original binding torn a little wear on edges. A tight clean copy otherwise in original but worn cloth. What It Is with All the Kinds Causes Symptomes Prognostics and Several Cures of It. In Three Partitions <br/> <br/> Chatto and Windus hardcover
18671373483London: William Tegg 1867. New Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xviii 747 pages. In Very Good condition with plastic covering. Spine is brown with gilt lettering. Boards have some rubbing and dirt staining from dirt trapped beneath the plastic. Text block has minor damp staining to the top exterior edge a letter from the Folger Shakespeare library tucked into the plastic cover on the front paste down minor pencil writing on the front end papers and half title page and some foxing throughout. NOTE: Shelved in Room G. 1373483. Special Collections. William Tegg hardcover
1826269269Glasgow: R. Griffin & Co 1826. Hardcover. Very Good. New edition. 8vo. Volume two only of two. Three quarter leather cover with cloth boards. Top edge gilt. Very good. Bookplate inside front cover. Front hinge slightly cracked. Corners lightly rubbed. Leather spine lightly rubbed. R. Griffin & Co hardcover
1836000455London: B. Blake 13 Bell Yard Tmple Bar. 1836. Original half brown calf with original period spine and end papers professionally relaid retaining 90% of original spine. Marbled boards and endsheets. Frontispiece with negligible dampstaining also to flyleaf. Previous owner's name on flyleaf and another owner's stamped name also on same. 744 pages. Overall FAIR PLUS condition. Digital photos upon request. The Anatomy of Melancholy Full title The Anatomy of Melancholy What it is: With all the Kinds Causes Symptomes Prognostickes and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections Members and Subsections. Philosophically Historically Opened and Cut up. is a book written by Robert Burton which was first published 1621. The book is on its surface a medical textbook in which Burton applies his large and varied learning in the Scholastic manner to the subject of melancholia. Each section piles on ancient and mediæval medical authorities from Hippocrates Aristotle and Galen forward and adds to these ancient examples a great deal of Latin poetry. Burton defines his subject this way: Melancholy the subject of our present discourse is either in disposition or in habit. In disposition is that transitory Melancholy which goes and comes upon every small occasion of sorrow need sickness trouble fear grief passion or perturbation of the mind any manner of care discontent or thought which causes anguish dulness heaviness and vexation of spirit any ways opposite to pleasure mirth joy delight causing frowardness in us or a dislike. In which equivocal and improper sense we call him melancholy that is dull sad sour lumpish ill-disposed solitary any way moved or displeased. And from these melancholy dispositions no man living is free no Stoick none so wise none so happy none so patient so generous so godly so divine that can vindicate himself; so well-composed but more or less some time or other he feels the smart of it. Melancholy in this sense is the character of Mortality.This Melancholy of which we are to treat is a habit a serious ailment a settled humour as Aurelianus and others call it not errant but fixed: and as it was long increasing so now being pleasant or painful grown to a habit it will hardly be removed. Over the course of the book Burton draws from nearly every science of his day including psychology physiology astronomy astrology demonology meteorology and theology. In fact much of the book consists of quotations from various authorities and Burton fills the Anatomy with more or less pertinent references to the works of others. The Anatomy of Melancholy is a particularly lengthy book. The first edition printed as a single quarto volume was nearly 900 pages long and subsequent editions only added to that total. The text is partitioned into three major sections plus an introduction each arranged in Burton's sprawling style. characteristically the introduction includes not only an author's note titled "Democritus Junior to the Reader" but also a Latin poem "Democritus Junior to His Book" a warning to "The Reader Who Employs His Leisure Ill" an abstract of the following text and another poem explaining the frontispiece. The following three sections proceed in a similarly exhaustive fashion: the first section focuses on the causes and symptoms of "common" melancholies while the second section deals with cures for melancholy and the third section explores more complex and esoteric melancholies including the melancholy of lovers and all varieties of religious melancholies. The Anatomy concludes with an extensive index which many years later The New York Times Book Review called "a readerly pleasure in itself".; additionally most modern editions of the book are supplemented with many pages of explanatory notes for the reader. Throughout the book Burton's digressive and inclusive style often verging on a stream of consciousness consistently informs and animates the text. Though nominally a medical book the Anatomy is "vitalized by Burton's pervading humour" and is as much a sui generis work of literature as it is a scientific or philosophical text. The Anatomy of Melancholy has been admired by many subsequent writers from Samuel Johnson Charles Lamb and John Keats who professed it to be his favourite book to Stanley Fish Philip Pullman and Jorge Luis Borges who used a quote as an epigraph to his story "The Library of Babel". Despite its age The Anatomy of Melancholy is still considered an enduring if eccentric literary classic by many modern critics. UncleAndy. Seventh Edition. Half Calf Leather. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. B. Blake, 13, Bell Yard, Tmple Bar. Hardcover
1850284417Philadelphia: J. W. Moore 1850. Hardcover. Fair. New edition later printing. Three quarter leather with marbled boards. Poor with front board detached but present stamps and owner gift inscription on front fly foxing on tissue to frontispiece cover edges worn. J. W. Moore hardcover
1826109777London: R. Griffin & Company 1826. Hardcover. Very Good. New edition. Very good copy with some foxing throughout. R. Griffin & Company hardcover
1890190Excellent condition Volume III only-------- Dana Estes hardcover
18265282London: Thomas M'Lean 1826. New Edition. Tree Calf Binding. Measuring approximately 9" x 5.5 with 461 612 numbered pages respectively. <br /> <br /> These volumes are in fair condition. Volume I rear board is detached. Volume II front board is detached. Moderate scuffing to both boards. Interior pages are moderately foxed. <br /> <br /> Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.<br /> <br /> Inventory #N11-22. Thomas M'Lean unknown
183828345London: B. Blake 1838. Very Good. London: B. Blake 1838. Sixteenth Edition. Octavo; contemporary half navy blue calf over marbled boards gilt-tooled spine in six compartments red spine label top edge gilt marbled endpapers; 67431pp.; engraved frontispiece. Boards a bit scuffed with exposure at corners boards discreetly reattached small blemish to rear cover textblock a bit toned with very occasional contemporary pencil marginalia else a Very Good still quite attractive copy.<br /> <br /> First published in 1621 The Anatomy saw five heavily updated editions under the author's hand before his death nearly 20 years later in 1640. This edition printed from the "authorized copy of 1651 with the author's last corrections additions &c. &c. B. Blake unknown
1895404244London : John C Nimmo 1895. 1st edition. Hardcover. Finely bound in modern gilt-blocked green buckram. Tanning to pages light foxing. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; xviii 23 cm. Notes; The titlepage is facsimile of that of the sixth edition Lond. 1652. Subjects; Anatomy of melancholy. Junior Democritus. Melancholy ; Early works to 1800. Melancholy. Depression. London : John C Nimmo hardcover
185476552London: William Tegg and Co 1854. Near Fine condition. Marbled endpapers. Very attractive item. No date circa 1854. William Tegg and Co unknown
1891C208297London: Chatto & Windus 1891. Hardcover Hardcover. Good. Original maroon cloth with damp-staining to boards and affecting edges of prelims up to frontis tight copy with contents very good. Chatto & Windus, hardcover
18899031333New York: A.C. Armstrong and Son 1889. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with labels affixed to spines. Volume one has frontispiece of original edition tipped in. Neat signature of previous owner on flyleafs of all volumes. Minor wear to extremities of all volumes minor chipping to heads of two spines and noticeable chipping to head of third 1/4 x 1/2 inch. Each volume 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches. 1481 total pages. <br/><br/> A.C. Armstrong and Son hardcover
1849023035J. W. Moore. Rebound in gilt lettered black cloth with reinforced inside hinges. With neat light pencil underlining and pencil annotations commentary on text. Frontis engraving and engraved first title page frontispiece of the original edition with some foxing.A New Edition to which is prefixed an account of the author. Robert Burton's classic work on Melancholy. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1849. J. W. Moore hardcover
1855000654Philadelphia: J W Moore 1855. 7th Edition . Half Leather. Very Good/N/A. Marble boards with Calf spine and corners. Bands to spine with red leather title label.Hinges a bit worn and corners bumped and scuffed a bit but overall this is a very good exterior for this book. Previous owner's stamp "Private library of S.E. Neikirk". The end papers are foxed as is the frontispiece of the original edition. The text and adverts for medical books in the back are clean tight and bright. <br/> <br/> J W Moore hardcover
1845207705London: Tegg 1845. Hardcover. Fair with wear to the edges and corners. Crack in the leather along the spine. Crack between the front end pages. Majority clean body pages and solid binding. A dark brown leatherbound book with gilt text on a red plate on the spine. Color marbled end pages. Red textblocks. 748 pages; black-and-white frontispiece. Tegg hardcover
1849330532London: William Tegg 1849. hardcover. Engraved frontispiece and reproduction of the original 1652 allegorical frontispiece. xx 748 pages. Thick 8vo attractively bound in full gilt-tamped brown polished calf professionaly re-backed in similar leather with black spine label. London: William Tegg & Co. 1849. A new edition. Near Fine.<br/> <br/> In Three Partitions. With Their Several Sections Numbers & Subsections Philosophically Medically Historically Opened & Cut Up. With a Satirical Preface Conducing to the Following Discourse.<br/> <br/> William Tegg unknown
1838105956London: B. Blake. 1838. Large octavo full leather binding gilt lettering and decorated rules to spine blindstamped design in panels to spine gilt stamped rule and blindstamped decoration to borders of boards marbled endpapers all edges marbled engraved frontispiece based on the famous frontispiece of 1628 with numerous illustrated panels "drawn and engraved expressly for this edition" by C. Freeman pp viii 743. Rubbed to the head and foot of the spine some rubbing to edges some off-setting to frontispiece from tissue-guard. Small inscription nineteenth century 'Edwin Palmer for H.W. Fisher' to the reverse of the front free endpaper. Very good condition. Robert Burton's seventeenth-century classic was first published in 1621. The work overwent considerable expansions and revisions during the author's lifetime but this edition is taken from its final form. The work is on its surface a quasi-medical text dealing with "melancholia" depression but overall it is an encyclopedic often comic approach to life philosophy and literature. Burton wrote it under the pseudonym Democritus Junior as a reference to the Ancient Greek "laughing philosopher" Democritus. A review of a recent reprint described the work as "Made out of all the books that existed in a 17th-century library it was compiled in order to explain and account for all human emotion and thought." This is a handsomely bound 1838 edition in excellent condition. 16th edition. B. Blake hardcover
