THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY, WHAT IT IS, WITH ALL THE KINDS, CAUSES, SYMPTOMES, PROGNOSTICS, AND SEVERAL CURES OF IT. IN THREE PARTITIONS. WITH THEIR SEVERAL SECTIONS, MEMBERS, AND SUBSECTIONS, PHILOSOPHICALLY MEDICINALLY, HISTORICALLY OPENED AND CUT UP.
BY DEMOCRITUS JUNIOR. WITH A SATYRICALL PREFACE CONDUCING TO THE FOLLOWING DISCOURSE.THE 10TH EDITION CORRECTED. TO WHICH IS NOW PREFIXED AN ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR. 2 VOLUMES.
LONDON: PRINTED FOR MESSRS. VERNOR AND HOOD, 1804, 10th EDITION. FULL ORIGINAL TREE CALF LEATHER RECASED (REBOUND), WITH THE ORIGINAL LEATHER HAVING BEEN LAID DOWN ON NEWER LEATHER MANY YEARS AGO - PROBABLY IN THE LATE 19th CENTURY. BLACK LEATHER SPINE LABELS WITH GILT DECORATION TO SPINES AND GILT BORDER FLORAL DECORATIONS TO COVERS, 9 1/2” x 6”, 1072 TOTAL PAGES, ILLUSTRATED WITH AN ENGRAVED FRONTISPIECE TO EACH VOLUME.
BOOKS ARE IN VERY GOOD, TIGHT AND EXTREMELY CLEAN CONDITION, EXCEPT FOR MODERATE WEAR TO LEATHER EDGES, LIGHT FOXING TO TITLE-PAGES, THOUGH INTERIOR PAGES ARE INCREDIBLY CLEAN AND BRIGHT WITH NO FOXING. ALSO BOTH VOLUMES HAVE A WENDELL HERTIG TAYLOR BOOKPLATE TO THE FRONT PASTE- DOWN ENDPAPERS, WHICH IN MY OPINION DEFACED THE BEAUTIFUL 224 YEAR OLD MARBLE ENDPAPERS, TAYLOR WAS THE CO-AUTHOR OF ONE BOOK AND DIED IN 1985.
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THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY IS A BOOK BY ROBERT BURTON FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1621 BUT REPUBLISHED FIVE MORE TIMES OVER THE NEXT 17 YEARS WITH MASSIVE ALTERATIONS AND EXPANSIONS.
THE BOOK IS A MEDICAL TREATIES ABOUT MELANCHOLY (DEPRESSION). OVER 500,000 WORDS LONG, IT DISCUSSES A WIDE RANGE OF TOPICS BESIDES DEPRESSION - INCLUDING HISTORY, ASTRONOMY, GEOGRAPHY, AND VARIOUS ASPECTS OF LITERATURE AND SCIENCE AND FREQUENTLY USES HUMOR TO MAKE POINTS OR EXPLAIN TOPICS. BURTON WROTE IT UNDER THE PSEUDONYM DEMOCRITUS JUNIOR AS A REFERENCE TO THE ANCIENT GREEK “LAUGHING PHILOSOPHER” DEMOCRITUS.
THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY INSPIRED SEVERAL WRITERS OF THE FOLLOWING CENTURIES, SUCH AS ENLIGHTENMENT FIGURES LIKE SAMUEL JOHNSON AND MODERN AUTHORS LIKE PHILIP PULLMAN. ROMANTIC POET JOHN KEITH SAID ANATOMY WAS HIS FAVORITE BOOK. PORTIONS OF BURTON’S WRITING WERE USED BY LAWRENCE STERN IN TRISTRAM SHANDY DURING THE 1750’s AND 1760’s.
THE BOOK HAS OFTEN BEEN OUT OF PRINT, PARTICULARLY BETWEEN 1676 AND 1800. BECAUSE NO ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT OF ANATOMY HAS SURVIVED, LATER REPRINT HAVE DRAWN MORE OR LESS FAITHFULLY FROM THE ADDITIONS PUBLISHED DURING BURTON‘S LIFE.
FINALLY ANATOMY HAS RECEIVED NOTHING BUT PRAISE SINCE IT FIRST APPEARED IN 1621. LEWELLYN POWYS CALLED IT “THE GREATEST WORK OF PROSE OF THE GREATEST PERIOD OF ENGLISH PROSE WRITING.”THE GREAT SURGEON WILLIAM OSLER DECLARED IT THE GREATEST OF MEDICAL TREATIES AND DR. JOHNSON, BOSWELL REPORTS SAID IT WAS THE ONLY BOOK HE WROTE EARLY IN THE MORNING TO READ WITH PLEASURE.
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