Book Description

THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY. What it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptoms, prognostics, and several cures of it. In three partitions. With their several sections, members, and subsections, philosophically, medically, historically opened and cut up. By Democritus Junior. With a satirical preface, conducing to the following discourse. A new edition, corrected, and enriched by translations of the numerous classical extracts, by Democritus Minor. NEW EDITION. 8vo. (9 x 6 inches). xx, 748pp, 8pp of publishers adverts, dated 1848. Engraved frontis and decorative extra title page, reproducing the frontis of the original edition. A little foxing to the two illustrated leaves otherwise a very good clean copy in twentieth century half brown calf binding. Spine with five raised bands, the compartments ruled and decorated in gilt, and with blind tooled decorations. Dark green title label with line and dot edges and lettered in gilt. Marbled paper on boards. Plain off white endpapers. Some offsetting to the blank endpapers from the leather edges but overall a very good bright copy of this classic work
Author BURTON. ROBERT.
Publisher William Tegg & Co. London. 1849.

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