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Anatomy of Melancholy 1st American Edition

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Title: The Anatomy of Melancholy, What It Is, With All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms, Prognostics and Several Cures of it.
Author: [Burton, Robert]
Description: 2 volumes. xxiv, 461; [iv], 612 pp. (8vo) 9x5½, original embossed brown cloth, spines lettered in gilt within a gilt border. First American Edition.A work of far-reaching influence, proposed as a medical treatise but expanded to treat the whole life of man, including social and political reform as well as bodily and metal health. In his argument, Burton draws upon a very wide body of literature, from the Bible and the Fathers, through Greek and Latin classics, to the Elizabethan writers; his book thus becomes a store-house of miscellaneous learning, and it has come to be regarded in that light rather than as a medical work. First published in 1621.
Heading: Place Published: Philadelphia
Publisher: T. Wardle
Date Published: 1836