[Rarebooks] FS: 1628 Third Edition of Burton's THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY

[Charles Agvent]

[BURTON, Robert] DEMOCRITUS JUNIOR. THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY. What It 
Is. With All The Kinds Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Severall 
Cures of It. In Three Partitions, with Their Severall Sections, Members 
and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically Opened & Cut 
Up. London: Henry Cripps, 1628. Third Edition. Quarto (7-1/4" x 11") in 
early calf leather, the spine with 5 raised bands and a gilt-lettered 
burgundy morocco spine label. Text complete but for the colophon and 
errata leaf, unevenly paginated: [viii], 77, [7], 646, [8] pages; [3], 
*2, **2, a4-k4, &2, A4-Z4, Aa4-Zz4,Aaa4-Zzz4,Aaaa4-Oooo4. Third edition 
of Burton's important work and the first edition to contain the engraved 
title page, which was used in numerous subsequent editions with changes 
only to the imprint. The First Psychiatric Encylopedia is divided into 
three sections. The first considers the nature, symptoms, and various 
causes of melancholy, ranging from God to witches and devils, poverty 
and imprisonment, parents and "overmuch study," "desire of revenge," or 
"overmuch use of hot wines." The second section discusses cures such as 
exercise and diet, purging, blood-letting, and potions. The third 
focuses on two particular types: love melancholy and religious 
melancholy. GARRISON-MORTON-NORMAN 4818.1; HEIRS OF HIPPOCRATES 406; 
OSLER 4621: "A great medical treatise (the greatest ever written by a 
layman), orderly in arrangement, intensely serious in purpose, and 
weighty beyond belief with authorities ... the centuries have made 
Burton's book a permanent possession of literature." The engraved title 
page with the old signature of Phil. Warricke. Large bookplate of 
William Harcourt Hooper on the front pastedown. The engraved title page 
has the small portrait of the author (in the persona of Democritus 
Junior) neatly removed and replaced with a headpiece identical to those 
used in the book. Small chip to one text page; small library stamp to 
front pastedown and sticker to verso of dedication leaf; generally clean 
with occasional stain; few pages at beginning and end splitting from 
binding. Joints split, covers held by cords; minor chipping to spine. 
Overall a Very Good example of this important book. (#020456)    $1,500

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