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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

1628347Oxford England: Henry Cripps 1628. 3rd Edition. Contemporary sheep with rebacked modern calf. Very Good. Christof Le Blon. One of the most popular books of the 17th century and one of the most celebrated books of all time. The book is ostensibly a medical treatise about depression but it is really a genre-defying tour-de-force. It branches into many diverse categories including self-help psychology philosophy history astronomy geography humor and various aspects of literature. Burton wrote it under the pseudonym Democritus Junior as a reference to the Ancient Greek "laughing philosopher" Democritus. Condition: Very Good. Textually complete including colophon leaf without errata leaf as is common. Contemporary sheep spine rebacked with modern calf. BOOK INFO The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton Published in 1626 in Oxford by Henry Cripps. Third edition corrected and augmented by the author originally published only a few years earlier in 1621. In contemporary sheep covered boards with single fillet in blind paneling. Modern rebacked calf spine with raised bands separating compartments ruled in blind a gilt-lettered red morocco spine label in compartment two. Endpapers refreshed circa early 1800s. Small folio 11" x 7 6/8". Collated: viii 77 7 208 but really 210 4 209-374 but really 373 2 375-646 10 Table of Contents and Colophon leaf. This is the first edition to feature the famous engraved title page with 11 separate vignette rectangular panels including the portrait of Robert Burton Democritus Jr. Numerous engraved woodcut initials and chapter head-and-tail pieces along with some vignette headers. Commentary in Latin along gutter and fore-edge margins. CONDITION REPORT Very good for nearly a 400-year-old folio. Spine rebacked in modern calf recornered in matching calf. Refreshed endpapers. Exterior and binding: Very firm hinges and joints tight pages sharp corners. Worn boards but in quite lovely condition overall given its sheep and the age of the binding. Light rubbing to edges. Spine is colorful and supple. Interior: Most of the pages are gently toned with occasional sections of darker toning or browning/oxidization. First dozen leaves with ink spills mostly along the margins with some drips on title page. Infrequent spots of foxing. The occasional smudge a few bent corners. Large water dampening stains in pages 197-208 and 219-250. A few other areas with some smaller and lighter water dampening. Professional tear repairs at foot of title and dedication pages on blank versos. Tear at bottom of 73-74 k1 Tear within header-piece leaf following page 77 of preface slight loss to corner off 455-456 Mmm 4 bottom of 625-626 or Llll2 with some slight loss none affecting text. Provenance and numerous areas of antiquarian writing: 1. John Harper signs his name with a date of 1748 on the title page dedication page and colophon. 2. J.B. Pooley neatly signs his name with a date of 1835 on FFEP and includes a famous quote from Dr. Samuel Johnson: The only book that ever took one out of bed two hours sooner than I wished to rise 3. Vignette bookplate of James S. Burra noted 19th century bibliophile and collector who had an impressive library of important books and manuscripts on front pastedown and his signature in pencil on FFEP. Burra interacts with the text throughout in pencil but lightly - underlining or marking passages along the margin sometimes writing a word or two of commentary. He also has notes in pencil on rear blanks including listing the pages works of Shakespeare are referenced etc. Numerous pagination errors as called for: page 79 is listed as 77 and 80 as 78. Pagination is off 2 until. when page 362 is misnumbered as 363 and pagination is off by one henceforth. Most importantly catch words align page-to-page and register is continuous. CONTENT & INFLUENCE Much of Anatomy was inspired by Burton's own struggles with depression. Anatomy starts with a roughly 200-page-long satirical introduction "Democritus to the Reader" narrated by Burton's pseudonym Democritus Junior. The main body of the book is divided into three partitions. The first partition is The Causes of Melancholy the second partition is The Cure of Melancholy and the third partition is Love-Melancholy and Religious Melancholy. The book regularly quotes biblical ancient and medieval medical authorities and literary sources. The Anatomy of Melancholy inspired countless writers of the following centuries including Samuel Johnson John Milton and Laurence Sterne and modern authors like Philip Pullman. Romantic poet John Keats claimed Anatomy was his favorite book. Burton's numerous anecdotes which tackle melancholy with both sobriety and humor as well as the overarching influence of his personal sadness on the book are often cited as making Anatomy his one truly great work. . Henry Cripps unknown

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THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY

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The Anatomy of Melancholy What it is with all the Kinds.

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

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The Anatomy of Melancholy What It Is With All the Kinds Causes Symptoms Prognostics and Several Cures of It: In Three Partitions: A New Edition

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

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A Mole's-Eye View of New York

1941406108Boston: Charles T. Branford Company 1941. A fine copy in a very good jacket with light toning and a chip at the head of the spine panel. 8vo. 340 pages. Original cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION of this classic of New York City life scarcely found with its dust jacket. "The New York that only Gothamites know is here revealed in a different kind of guidebook. An intimate uncovering of the Melting Pot nothing like it has appeared before. The reader is in for an unforgettable experience a conducted sight-seeing tour of New York's most celebrated spectacle–morning rush hour. Charles T. Branford Company unknown

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1837 New Edtn Corrected THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY 2 VOLS WITH PROVENANCE By Democritus Junior Robert Burton

BTETM0001709Longman Rees & Co; J. Booker S. Bagster Baldwin & Cradock; Whittaker & Co; J. Duncan; Simpkin; Marshall & Co Allen & Co J. Bohn W. Mason J. Hearne J. Maynard E. Hodgson and Wilson & Sons York 1837. 5th Edition or Later Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo Standard 8vo 6 נ9 in 152 נ229 mm . Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Some bumps and scuffs to boards and spine top and tail minor fraying of spine cover. Previous owner bookplate. Some browning on FEPs. Ex-library stamps St Georges Hospital in both volumes. Binding and text block firm and tight. Pages clean. Collation: Vol. 1: pp. 1145833 Vol. II: pp. 1 5 612 2 Complete as issued. Please see Photos as part of condition report. References: OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 37946165 HathiTrust Record 009733777 1837 New Edition Corrected THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY 2 VOLS WITH PROVENANCE What it is with all the kinds causes symptoms prognostics and several cures of it. To which is prefixed an account of the author New Edition Corrected - A medically associated copy of Burtons great work on melancholy from the library of Thomas Whipham and later St Georges Hospital. By Democritus Junior Robert Burton Author Bio: Robert Burton 8 February 1577 25 January 1640 was an English author and fellow of Oxford University who wrote the encyclopedic tome The Anatomy of Melancholy. Burton's most famous work and greatest achievement was The Anatomy of Melancholy. First published in 1621 it was reprinted with additions from Burton no fewer than five times. A digressive and labyrinthine work Burton wrote as much to alleviate his own melancholy as to help others. The final edition totalled more than 500000 words. The book is permeated by quotations from and paraphrases of many authorities both classical and contemporary the culmination of a lifetime of erudition. Provenance: Previous Owner Bookplate Motto - Nec prodicus nec avarus Neither avaricious nor covetous: Thomas Whipham was the first son of Thomas Henry Whipham a barrister of Lincolns Inn and was educated at Rugby and Oriel College Oxford. He rowed in his college boat and took a natural science degree in 1861. He studied medicine at St. Georges Hospital graduating as B.M. in 1866 and after filling a house appointment was made demonstrator of anatomy in 1869 and curator of the museum a year later. He was appointed to the honorary staff as assistant physician in 1872 and became physician in 1876. He retired as consulting physician in 1896 having acted as dean of the School from 1888 to 1893. He examined in medicine for Oxford University and served as Senior Censor at the Royal College of Physicians. Laryngology was his particular interest but he was an able general physician and teacher. He once held the office of prime warden of the Goldsmiths Company. He was a lover of the countryside and of fishing and shooting and after retiring to Devon in 1904 added gardening to his hobbies. He married Florence a daughter of Charles Tanqueray and had one son. He died at Hatherleigh Devon. Synopsis: 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 Partitions with their several Sections Members and Subsections Philosophically Medicinally Historically Opened and Cut Up is a book by Robert Burton first published in 1621. On its surface the book is presented as a medical textbook in which Burton applies his vast and varied learning in the scholastic manner to the subject of melancholia which includes although it is not limited to what is now termed clinical depression. Although presented as a medical text The Anatomy of Melancholy is as much a sui generis work of literature as it is a scientific or philosophical text and Burton addresses far more than his stated subject. In fact the Anatomy uses melancholy as the lens through which all human emotion and thought may be scrutinized and virtually the entire contents of a 17th-century library are marshalled into service of this goal. It is encyclopedic in its range and reference. Format: Hardcover Octavo Standard 8vo 6 × 9 in 152 × 229 mm Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary. Language: English Published By: Longman Rees & Co; J. Booker S. Bagster Baldwin & Cradock; Whittaker & Co; J. Duncan; Simpkin; Marshall & Co Allen & Co J. Bohn W. Mason J. Hearne J. Maynard E. Hodgson and Wilson & Sons York Condition Report: Dust Jacket: No Jacket Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Very Good - Some bumps and scuffs to boards and spine top and tail minor fraying of spine cover. Previous owner bookplate. Some browning on FEPs. Ex-library stamps St Georges Hospital in both volumes. Binding and text block firm and tight. Pages clean. Collation: Vol. 1: pp. 1145833 Vol. II: pp. 1 5 612 2 Complete as issued. Please see Photos as part of condition report. References: OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 37946165 HathiTrust Record 009733777 SKU: BTETM0001709 Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5 L: 30 W: 25 Units: cm W: 2Kg Tracked Shipping Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request Longman, Rees, & Co; J. Booker, S. Bagster, Baldwin & Cradock; Whittaker & Co; J. Duncan; Simpkin; Marshall & Co, Allen & Co, J. hardcover

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