Description: THEANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY,WHAT IT IS,WITH ALL THE KINDS, CAUSES, SYMPTOMES, PROGNOSTICS, ANDSEVERAL CURES OF IT. IN THREE PARTITIIONS. WITH THEIR SEVERAL SECTIONS, MEMBERS, AND SUBSECTIONS, PHILOSOPHICALLY, MEDICALLY,HISTORICALLY OPENED AND CUT UP. BY DEMOCRITUS JUNIOR WITH A SATYRICAL PREFACE, CONDUCING TO THE FOLLOWING DISCOURSE. A New Edition LONDONWILLIAM TEGG & CO.____MDCCCXLIX DESCRIPTION(ii) + xviii + 748 + (ii)Book measures 225mm x 150mm approximately.Bound in full contemporary polished tan calf. Spine with five gilt-ruled raised bands with elaborate gilt decoration to compartments, and green title / author label. Double gilt fillet borders with cornices to boards. Marbled paste-downs and end-papers. All page edges marbled. Usual facsimile of original first edition title page with engraving to title page verso.CONDITIONIn very good condition overall with binding holding very firm. Boards exhibit minor surface scratches and marks, a little wear to edges and spine head, the odd scuff and with minor bumping to corners.Internally, the pages are very clean throughout with a little uniform mild age toning and with a few spots and foxed patches to end-papers and to facsimile title page and verso. Front end-paper and front paste-down both have a small rough patch and end-paper with a closed tear. Previous owner signature to top of front end-paper and small ink number to title page.Please always refer to photo images for a clearer indication of condition.We are always happy to provide further photo images if required. INTERESTINGRobert Burton (1577 to 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.An immensely famous publication. On its surface, the book is presented as a medical textbook in which Burton applies his vast and varied learning, in the scholastic manner, to the subject of melancholia (which includes, although it is not limited to, what is now termed clinical depression). Although presented as a medical text, The Anatomy of Melancholy is as much a sui generis work of literature as it is a scientific or philosophical text, and Burton addresses far more than his stated subject. In fact, the Anatomy uses melancholy as the lens through which all human emotion and thought may be scrutinized, and virtually the entire contents of a 17th-century library are marshalled into service of this goal. In his satirical preface to the reader, Burton's persona and pseudonym "Democritus Junior" explains, "I write of melancholy by being busy to avoid melancholy." This is characteristic of the author's style, which often supersedes the book's strengths as a medical text or historical document as its main source of appeal to admirers. Both satirical and serious in tone, the Anatomy is "vitalized by (Burton's) pervading humour", and Burton's digressive and inclusive style, often verging on a stream of consciousness, consistently informs and animates the text.
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