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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

by: Burton, Robert, 1577-1640; Le Blon, Christof, d. 1665, engraver; Cripps, Henry, fl. 1620-1642, bookseller; Lichfield, John, fl. 1605-1635, printer

Publication date: 1628

Topics: Emotions, Depression, Depression, Temperament

Publisher: Oxford : Printed [by John Lichfield] for Henry Cripps

Collection: usnationallibraryofmedicine; medicalheritagelibrary; americana

Contributor: U.S. National Library of Medicine

Language: English

Democritus Junior = Robert Burton

Engraved title page, with illustrations of melancholy and port. of the author

Printer from colophon on final p. [11]

With a penultimate leaf of errata

Head-pieces; initials

Signatures: pi² **² a-k⁴ [par.]² A-4O⁴ 4P²

Errors in pagination: pages numbers 37-38, 96, 98-99, 101, 358-362 misprinted respectively as '39', '40', '86', '88', '89', '91', '357', '358', '259', '359, and '361'; p. 583-584 repeated

NLM copy: a few contemporary MS. markings (e.g., fists)

Includes bibliographical references

STC (2nd ed.)

Madan

ESTC

Bibliographia Burtoniana

NLM copy, book-label of William Salloch

Exhibited: "And there's the humor of it: Shakespeare and the four humors," National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Md., January 30 to August 17, 2012

Condition reviewed

digitized