The Anatomy of Melancholy, What It Is with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms, Prognostics, & Cures of it **3 Volumes** by Burton, Robert (Junior, Democritus) - 1889

Chatto & Windus, 1889. Hardcover. Acceptable. 0x0x0. New edition, Chatto & Windus, 1889. Pebbled cloth. Poor binding, taped. Book plate. Unmarked pages. Facsimile frontis of original ed. Ships daily.

Chatto & Windus. Used - Good. Good condition. Spine ends worn. Gifter's inscription on front free endpage. (melancholy, depression, psychology, astronomy, meteorology, theology)

London: Duckworth & CO., 1905. Hardcover. Good. . Volume 3 only. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Cover shows moderate wear, tear, rubbing, and edgewear. Pages are tanned with a few marks.

BOSTON: DANA ESTES AND COMPANY, 1890 GRAY COVER, BLACK PRINT SPINE, INSIDE IS TIGHT AND CLEAN WITH NO MARKINGS. VOLUME NUMBER III OF THREE, LIBRARY RAISED STAMP TITLE PAGE. BURTON WAS A SCHOLAR AT OXFORD AND WROTE THIS QUITE DETAILED WORK IN AN EFFORT TO HELP HIMSELF AND OTHERS. HIS PASSION FOR PSYCHOLOGY HELPED GUIDE HIM. NO DATE, CIRCA 1890. Robert Burton (8 February 1577 25 January 1640) was an English scholar at Oxford University, best known for the classic The Anatomy of Melancholy. He was also the incumbent of St Thomas the Martyr, Oxford, and of Seagrave in Leicestershire. Burton's Melancholy focuses sharply on the self; unlike Bacon, Burton assumes that knowledge of psychology, not natural science, is humankind's greatest need. His enormous treatise is considered "delightful" by critics; it examines in encyclopaedic detail the ubiquitous Jacobean malady, melancholy, supposedly caused by an excess of "black bile", according to the humour theory fashionable at the… Read More

Longman, Rees and Orme. Thirteenth Edition, Corrected. Trade Paperback. Good/None. 2 volumes, 3/4-leather over marbled boards. Leather quite worn, cracked and dried; hinges starting; front board detached from volume 1; 2" chunk of backstrip missing on Volume 2. Light foxing, but generally clean inside.

Excellent condition Volume III only,-,-,-,-,-,-,-,-,

London: Chatto & Windus,, 1891. Hardcover Hardcover. Good. Original maroon cloth with damp-staining to boards and affecting edges of prelims up to frontis, tight copy with contents very good.

'Seventh edition'. Good hardcover, no DJ. Half calf leather with spot pattern marbled paper over boards; raised bands on spine; spot pattern marbled end papers. Cover marbled papers partially rubbed through to boards; rubbed at fore corners to boards; spine title panel lacking; all textblock edges blue stained apparently by owner; slight blue tinge dye tinge on covers; spine leather intact and supple - no cracking at joints; tightly bound; free end papers lacking; cloth reinforced at front and rear end paper hinges; foxing on several prelim and terminal leaves; light, clean interior with occasional light foxing; supple leaves. With all three partitions - complete in one volume. Large 8vo, 670 pp; index. See, OCLC #682392487.

London, England: Thomas M'Lean, 1826. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 5 3/4" X 9 1/4. FAIR / NO DUST JACKETS. [2 volume set]. Volume I: xii, 461pp.; Volume II: 612 pp. Text clean and unmarked. Endpapers toned and foxed, minor soiling throughout. Illustrated with an 1826 reproduction of the frontispiece for the 1638 edition. Plain paper over boards with linen tape spines, publisher's paper title labels pasted on at spines. Boards rubbed and soiled, edges worn to boards, corners bumped, boards partly detached fron textblocks. Spine cloth split at joints. Textblocks intact and stable.

Hardcover. Good+. William Veazie Brown pebbled cloth covers. Volume I has broken front and back hinges with resulting detached frontispiece and title page. Remaining contents tight. The other 2 volumes are tight, clean and intact. Will require extra postage for priority or overseas shipping.