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THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY
by Burton, Robert [Democritus Junior]
- Used
- Condition
- Spines with some light soil, else quite ffesh and crisp copies, uncut and unopened. These are very difficult to find in nice con
- Seller
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Paris, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
London: Nonesuch Press, 1925. Limited to 750 copies, this no. 749. Spines with some light soil, else quite ffesh and crisp copies, uncut and unopened. These are very difficult to find in nice condition, and these are the best copies we have ever seen. Limited to 750 copies, this no. 749. Two volumes. Folio. xv [i], 299p, [v]; [viii], 301-588, [viii]. Illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer. Gilt-titled parchment vellum spines with Italian pattern paper sides. Printed by the Westminster Press on Dutch cream laid paper with the Nonesuch watermark. "Kauffer's illustrations for Burton's text provoked some spirited public arguments. Sir Edmund Gosse declared them 'hideous and irrelevant, and that a child would deserve to be smacked for drawing them'. But they were stoutly defended by Roger Fry... whose remarks were later reprinted as 'Book Illustration and a Modern Example' in Transformations (1926)." Dreyfus 28, p. 191.
Synopsis
The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621.
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- Bookseller
- First Folio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19587
- Title
- THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY
- Author
- Burton, Robert [Democritus Junior]
- Book Condition
- Used - Spines with some light soil, else quite ffesh and crisp copies, uncut and unopened. These are very difficult to find in nice con
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited to 750 copies, this no. 749
- Publisher
- Nonesuch Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1925
- Bookseller catalogs
- ILLUSTRATED; PRIVATE PRESSES;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
First Folio
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Paris, Tennessee
About First Folio
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- Folio
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- Vellum
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- Crisp
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- Unopened
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