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An excellent example of the Nonesuch edition of The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton, with illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer.
An excellent example of the Nonesuch edition of The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton, with illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer.
An excellent example of the Nonesuch edition of The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton, with illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer.
An excellent example of the Nonesuch edition of The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton, with illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer.

[NONESUCH PRESS]; BURTON, Robert.

The Anatomy of Melancholy what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symtomes, prognostickes, & several cures of it. In three partitions, philosophically, medicinally, historically, opened and cut up. By Democritus Junior with a satyricall preface.

London, The Nonesuch Press, 1925.

$513.00
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The Anatomy of Melancholy

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The first Nonesuch title to be illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer. The text is taken from the sixth edition, the last to be revised by Burton.

Limited edition, number 50 of 750 on Dutch paper, from a total edition of 790; 2 vols, small folio (31.5 x 21 cm); portrait frontispiece, pictorial borders to title, and illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer, text in double column, occasional light spotting to fore-edge; original vellum-backed patterned paper boards, gilt lettering to spine with small loss to vol. 2, spines lightly soiled, light rubbing to extremities, corners frayed with exposed boards, edges uncut, black endpapers with neat bookplates tipped in.

Dreyfus 28.

Stock code 122271

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An excellent example of the Nonesuch edition of The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton, with illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer.

The Anatomy of Melancholy

$513.00
$513.00

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