The Anatomy of Melancholy. What it is, with all the kinds causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & severall cures of it. In three Partitions, with their severall Sections, members, & subsections, Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, opened and cut up. With a Satyricall Preface, Conducing to the following Discourse -
Robert Burton [Democritus Junior]
1676 - Printed For Peter Parker, London - The Eighth Edition, Corrected and Augmented by the Author
‘Spanning over 500,000 words, Burton’s ‘Anatomy of Melancholy’ serves as the world's first comprehensive psychological and psychiatric encyclopaedia. Though framed around the historical concept of "melancholia" (which then encompassed clinical depression, delusions, and mania), it stands as a monumental study of human unreason and mental affliction.’ [Royal College of Surgeons]
‘Citing nearly 500 medical authors, and also a literary tour de force’. [Garrison & Morton] The Anatomy of Melancholy was published in 1621 and Burton continued to make revisions, corrections, and augmentations to each edition published during his lifetime, this, the last 17th century edition to be published, is taken from the 1651 printing, which was the first posthumous edition and included authorial corrections delivered by Burton to the editor H.C. (likely Henry Cripps) before Burton's death in 1640. Importantly it include the magnificent engraved title page by Christoffel Le Bron, with illustrations representing the effects of Melancholy from Superstition, Solitude, Love and Hypochondriasis.  More Details
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