The anatomy of melancholy
By: Robert Burton ; edited by Thomas C. Faulkner, Nicolas K. Kiessling, Rhonda L. Blair ; with an introduction by J.B. Bamborough.
Contributors: Faulkner, Thomas C.; Kiessling, Nicolas K.; Blair, Rhonda L.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Melancholy -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Robert Burton's the anatomy of melancholy
Description: The first volume of an edition which collates the six authoritative 17th century editions, this book takes as its copy-text the edition of 1623. It contains "Democritus Junior to the Reader" and the definition, causes and symptoms of melancholy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: v. 1-3. Text; title: v. 4. Commentary up to part 1, sect. 2, memb. 3, subs. 15, Misery of schollers / J.B. Bamborough with Martin Dodsworth; title: v. 5. Commentary up to part 1, sect. 2, memb. 3, subs. 1 to the end of the second partition / J.B. Bamborough with Martin Dodsworth; title: v. 6. Commentary on the third partition, together with bibliographical and topical indexes / J.B. Bamborough with Martin Dodsworth.