1628/32 ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY ROBERT BURTON FINE LEATHER BOUND DEMOCRITUS JUNIOR
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| Reference Number: Avaluer:7033595 | Non-Fiction Subject: Literature, Poetry & Criticism |
| Binding: Fine Binding | Year Printed: 1628 |
| Language: English | Modified Item: No |
| Special Attributes: Luxury Edition |
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Memberof the P.B.F.A.A MIXED EARLY EDITION IN A FULL CALF BINDING OF ROBERT BURTON'S:THE
ANATOMYOF
MELANCHOLY.
Whatit is, with all the kinds causes,
symptomes, prognostickes, & seuerall cures of it.
Inthree Partitions, with their severall
Sections, members &subsections.
Philosophically, Medicinally,
Historically, opened & cut up.
By.
DemocritusJunior.
With a Satyricall Prefac...e, conducing
to the following Discourse.Thethirde Edition, corrected andaugmentedby the Author.Oxford
Printedfor
HenryCripps .
1628.
The book measures 10¾"x6½", the preface is from the 1632 edition, the title and the main text from the 1628 edition. It has [4] +78 + [10] + 646 + [12] pages, it is STC 4161 with the preface from STC 4162. The title page has a gray cast to it and looks like a facsimile but it is printed on paper with the same watermark as the main text and there are impression marks from the woodcuts, it may be the original that has been badly struck. The book is otherwise complete.The book is bound in later full calf with marbled endpapers, the front hinge leather is cracked but the board is well retained by the cords, there is some light rubbing, the text is well bound together. There is an owner's bookplate on the reverse of the first free endpaper, the other free endpapers have extensive elegant manuscript notes. The dedication leaf is cropped at the bottom. The text has some light marginal foxing in a few places, page 419/20 has a loss, there are small holes to pages 9/10 and 11/12 and page 22. The errata leaf at the end has a small tear without loss, the final imprimatur leaf has a small loss to the bottom corner.
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