Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, 1827, 2 Volumes Bound in 3/4 Leather
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Robert Burton's 1872 (thirteenth edition, corrected) of 'The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is, With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms, Prognostics and Several Cures of it'. This is a stunning, 2 volume edition, bound in 3/4 leather, in very good+ condition of a work that seeks to define and treat chronic depression. A fascinating and entertaining look at early neuroscience and psychology.
*One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century. Lewellyn Powys called it "the greatest work of prose of the greatest period of English prose-writing," while the celebrated surgeon William Osler declared it the greatest of medical treatises. And Dr. Johnson, Boswell reports, said it was the only book that he rose early in the morning to read with pleasure. In this surprisingly compact and elegant new edition, Burton's spectacular verbal labyrinth is sure to delight, instruct, and divert today's readers as much as it has those of the past four centuries.
Robert Burton's 1872 (thirteenth edition, corrected) of 'The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is, With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms, Prognostics and Several Cures of it'. This is a stunning, 2 volume edition, bound in 3/4 leather, in very good+ condition of a work that seeks to define and treat chronic depression. A fascinating and entertaining look at early neuroscience and psychology.
*One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century. Lewellyn Powys called it "the greatest work of prose of the greatest period of English prose-writing," while the celebrated surgeon William Osler declared it the greatest of medical treatises. And Dr. Johnson, Boswell reports, said it was the only book that he rose early in the morning to read with pleasure. In this surprisingly compact and elegant new edition, Burton's spectacular verbal labyrinth is sure to delight, instruct, and divert today's readers as much as it has those of the past four centuries.
Robert Burton's 1872 (thirteenth edition, corrected) of 'The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is, With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms, Prognostics and Several Cures of it'. This is a stunning, 2 volume edition, bound in 3/4 leather, in very good+ condition of a work that seeks to define and treat chronic depression. A fascinating and entertaining look at early neuroscience and psychology.
*One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century. Lewellyn Powys called it "the greatest work of prose of the greatest period of English prose-writing," while the celebrated surgeon William Osler declared it the greatest of medical treatises. And Dr. Johnson, Boswell reports, said it was the only book that he rose early in the morning to read with pleasure. In this surprisingly compact and elegant new edition, Burton's spectacular verbal labyrinth is sure to delight, instruct, and divert today's readers as much as it has those of the past four centuries.