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 Democritus Junior [i.e. Robert Burton]. With a satyricall preface, conducing to the following discourse.

London : Printed for H. Cripps and are to be sold at his shop ... and by E. Wallis ..., 1660.

10 unnumbered pages, 78 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 723, that is, 737 pages, 11 unnumbered pages ; 30 cm (folio)

The seventh edition /

Half title: The anatomie of melancholy

Index: Final [4] leaves

Engraved illustrated t.p., by C. Le Blon.--cf. Corbett & Lightbown: The comely frontispiece (1979) p. 191-200 (on 4th ed., 1632)

"The argument of the frontispiece"--half title verso

Errors in pagination: p. 97 [i.e. 95]-96 and 137-40 repeated. Extra unnumbered pages: [4] between p. 218-219, [1] between 575-576, [1] between 576-577, [2] between 577-578. Pp. 189, 190, 442 numbered 190, 191 and 444 respectively

".. Since the last impression of this book, the ingenuous [sic] author of it is deceased, leaving a copy of it exactly corrected, with several considerable additions by his own hand; This copy he committed to my care and custody, with directions to have those additions inserted in the next edition; which ... is faithfully performed in this last impression. H.C. [Henry Cripps]"--To the reader, final leaf

"Let editors beware this edition, for it has more than the usual misprints affecting pagination, text, and marginal notes"--Hannold Library: Burton's 'Anatomy of melancholy' and Burtoniana (1959), p. 3 (no. 9)

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Waterfield's Note: Binding: Later blind-tooled calf, gilt ruled border. Presentation inscription on prelim. blank leaf and signed MS letter, both from Edward Morrall, Liverpool 23rd Jan. 1815. MS note (quotation from Gentleman's magazine) tipped in. Bookplate: Charles Plumptre Johnson, 1889

Wing (2nd ed.) B6183

Hannold Library: Burtons 'Anatomy of melancholy' and Burtoniana (1959) no. 9

ESTC R27243

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), B6183