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. Hardcover. 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: [8], 79, 78-208. [4], 209-374, [2], 375-584, 583-646, [8, table], [2, errata with verso blank], [2, colophon with blank verso] 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 by Christoffel Le Bron, illustrated with figures representing the effects of Melancholy from Love, Hypochondriasis, Superstition, and Solitude, 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; GROLIER, 100 ENGLISH, #18; 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"; PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN, 120, describing the first edition. 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. Item #020456
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