The anatomy of melancholy
Subtitle: what it is, with all the kinds causes, symptomes, prognostickes & seuerall cures of it : in three partitions, with their severall sections, members & subsections, philosophically, medicinally, historically opened & cut-up
By: by Democritus Junior ; with a satyricall preface, conducing to the following discourse
Contributors: Le Blon, Christof, -1665, engraver; Flesher, Miles, -1664, printer; Lichfield, Leonard, -1657, printer; Turner, William, -1643, printer; Young, Robert, -1643, printer; Cripps, Henry, active 1620-1642, bookseller
Edition: The fift [sic] edition, corrected and augmented by the author.
Publisher: Printed [by Robert Young, Edinburgh, 1635?, by Miles Flesher, London, 1638, and by Leonard Lichfield and William Turner, Oxford] for Henry Cripps
Published: 1638
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 723
Subjects: Melancholy; Early works to 1800; Depression
Other titles: Anatomie of melancholy
Notes: Democritus Junior = Robert Burton.

Engraved title page is signed: C: le Blon. fe.

Half-title reads: The anatomie of melancholy.

Printers' names from STC. For an account of the printing history of this edition see "Oxford Bib. Soc. Proceedings & Papers" I (1922-6), p. 194-7.

"This edition was printed by R. Young at Edinburgh, L. Litchfield at Oxford, and W. Turner at Oxford, with cancels by M. Flesher at London"--Smith, P.J.- Bib. Burtoniana, p. 88.

Leaf 2L1, intended to be cancelled, is retained in many copies.

Variant: with an additional letterpress title page dated 1638.

Variant: Synopsis of the first partition ( ²[sec.]²) bound in at end of First partition, after leaf K4.

Signatures: [sec.]⁴([sec. 1]+chi1) ²[sec.]² A-K⁴ ²A-R⁴ S⁶ T-2H⁴ 2I⁶ 2K⁴ 2L⁴( -2L1) 2M-4E⁴ 4F² 4G-5A⁴.

Illustrated engraved title page, head-pieces, initials; printed marginal notes.

Numerous errors in pagination.

Errata on leaf 5A4 recto.

Includes index.

Osler, W. Bibliotheca Osleriana, 4625

Osler, W. Bibliotheca Osleriana, 4626

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) 4163

English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), S122250

Madan, F. Oxford books, II, p. 141

Jordan-Smith, P. Bibliographia Burtoniana, p. 86