The anatomy of melancholy. : What it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & seuerall cures of it

Edité par Printed for Peter Parker at the signe of the Legg & Starr in Cornhill over against [the] Royall Exchange, London, 1687

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Folio, 33 cm. Bound in contemporary full calf. Some rubbing and minor loss to spine leather, cracked hinges. Boards detaching. Iconic engraved title. Scattered spotting, but generally clean. [8], 46, [6], 434, [10] p. Printed in two columns. First leaf bears a half-title on the recto and "The argument of the frontispiece" on the verso. First published in 1621, The Anatomie of Melancholy was a landmark book in psychology. The book was presented as a medical textbook on the subject of melancholia (clinical depression). The Anatomy of Melancholy is as much a sui generis work of literature as it is a scientific or philosophical text. 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 marshaled into service of this goal. It is encyclopedic in its range and reference. "This deeply serious work by a layman was said by Osler to be "a great medical treatise" (Osler 4621). The author, under the assumed name of Democritus Junior, offers many causes for melancholy, discusses the cure of its many forms and, in his studious discussion, throws much light on the customs and social attitudes of the day. It is a medical work in that, in all its seventy and more editions, it has continued to express the author's understanding of human psychiatric problems. Almost half of the thousand references to other authors are medical. The work was one of Dr. Samuel Johnson's favorites." - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 406. "Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy (1638) begins with a magnificent confection, a title page of ten compartments each corresponding to a numbered stanza in the prefatory poem 'The Argument of the Frontispiece.' Compartment 10, for example, portrays Burton, not out of vanity of the author but rather at the insistence of the printed, at least according to the amusing stanza 10. This design is very special information display. The title page and accompanying poem reflect the book's argument, organization, and intellectual method. That method -- the cutting and pasting of images and words -- is announced in the opening lines: Ten distinct Squares here seene apart, And joyn'd in one by Cutters art. Moreover, the confectionary design of the title page reproduces the intellectual architecture of The Anatomy of Melancholy: about one-third of the book consists of quotations and another third of paraphrases. A busy cutter indeed, and Burton disingenuously comments: Marke well: If't be not as't should be, Blame the bad Cutter and not me (Tufte, Visual Explanations, pp.134-5). Refs: STC 4163. Madan II, 881. Printing in the Mind of Man 108; Garrison-Morton 4918 (both citing 1st ed).…

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Titre
The anatomy of melancholy. : What it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & seuerall cures of it
Auteur
Robert Burton
Éditeur
Printed for Peter Parker at the signe of the Legg & Starr in Cornhill over against [the] Royall Exchange, London
Année de publication
1687
État de l'article
Good
Reliure
Hardcover
Édition
8th.
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