[Burton (Robert)], "Democritus Junior". The Anatomy of Melancholy. What it is, with all the kinds causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & severall cures of it.
Seventh Edition. Folio (31cm * 21cm), complete with occasional mispagination, finely bound in contemporary mottled calf, later re-backed with decorative motifs in compartments within raised bands, red spine label lettered in gilt, all edges marbled, bookplate of Roger Pettiward of Finborough Hall to front pastedown. Printed for H. Cripps and E. Wallis (London), 1660.
A little rubbing the binding, occasional faint spots and light paper browning, a small tear to the top of the title page without any loss to text or engravings, loss to two letters on leaf P3, tiny hole with loss to one letter on leaf Bb3, tiny hole with loss to one letter on leaf Ppp; a very good example.
Provenance: This book was once owned by Roger Pettiward (1754–1833), a businessman and collector, who was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1788 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1815. He was also the High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1811. In 1794, Pettiward bought Finborough Hall in Suffolk from the Member of Parliament, Colonel William Wollaston.
First published in 1621, this was "a work once almost forgotten, but which owed its revival to the inordinate praise of Dr. Johnson, who observed that it 'was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise'." (Lowndes I:328.)
"Burton's approach to mental illness was so advanced for his time that his book had no immediate predecessors and no immediate successors, although it influenced much of English writing in later centuries. Burton recognized the foremost psychodynamic components of melancholia and described some of the essential principles of psychoananlysis; Sir William Osler called The Anatomy of Melancholy 'the greatest medical treatise ever written by a layman.'" (The History of Psychiatry by Franz Alexander & Sheldon Selesnick, New York: New American Library, 1968.)
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Seventh Edition. Folio (31cm * 21cm), complete with occasional mispagination, finely bound in contemporary mottled calf, later re-backed with decorative motifs in compartments within raised bands, red spine label lettered in gilt, all edges marbled, bookplate of Roger Pettiward of Finborough Hall to front pastedown. Printed for H. Cripps and E. Wallis (London), 1660.
A little rubbing the binding, occasional faint spots and light paper browning, a small tear to the top of the title page without any loss to text or engravings, loss to two letters on leaf P3, tiny hole with loss to one letter on leaf Bb3, tiny hole with loss to one letter on leaf Ppp; a very good example.
Provenance: This book was once owned by Roger Pettiward (1754–1833), a businessman and collector, who was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1788 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1815. He was also the High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1811. In 1794, Pettiward bought Finborough Hall in Suffolk from the Member of Parliament, Colonel William Wollaston.
First published in 1621, this was "a work once almost forgotten, but which owed its revival to the inordinate praise of Dr. Johnson, who observed that it 'was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise'." (Lowndes I:328.)
"Burton's approach to mental illness was so advanced for his time that his book had no immediate predecessors and no immediate successors, although it influenced much of English writing in later centuries. Burton recognized the foremost psychodynamic components of melancholia and described some of the essential principles of psychoananlysis; Sir William Osler called The Anatomy of Melancholy 'the greatest medical treatise ever written by a layman.'" (The History of Psychiatry by Franz Alexander & Sheldon Selesnick, New York: New American Library, 1968.)
Please contact us for shipping costs if ordering from outside the UK.
Seventh Edition. Folio (31cm * 21cm), complete with occasional mispagination, finely bound in contemporary mottled calf, later re-backed with decorative motifs in compartments within raised bands, red spine label lettered in gilt, all edges marbled, bookplate of Roger Pettiward of Finborough Hall to front pastedown. Printed for H. Cripps and E. Wallis (London), 1660.
A little rubbing the binding, occasional faint spots and light paper browning, a small tear to the top of the title page without any loss to text or engravings, loss to two letters on leaf P3, tiny hole with loss to one letter on leaf Bb3, tiny hole with loss to one letter on leaf Ppp; a very good example.
Provenance: This book was once owned by Roger Pettiward (1754–1833), a businessman and collector, who was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1788 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1815. He was also the High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1811. In 1794, Pettiward bought Finborough Hall in Suffolk from the Member of Parliament, Colonel William Wollaston.
First published in 1621, this was "a work once almost forgotten, but which owed its revival to the inordinate praise of Dr. Johnson, who observed that it 'was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise'." (Lowndes I:328.)
"Burton's approach to mental illness was so advanced for his time that his book had no immediate predecessors and no immediate successors, although it influenced much of English writing in later centuries. Burton recognized the foremost psychodynamic components of melancholia and described some of the essential principles of psychoananlysis; Sir William Osler called The Anatomy of Melancholy 'the greatest medical treatise ever written by a layman.'" (The History of Psychiatry by Franz Alexander & Sheldon Selesnick, New York: New American Library, 1968.)
Please contact us for shipping costs if ordering from outside the UK.