Lot 58

[Burton (Robert)] "Democritus Junior". The Anatomy of Melancholy, fourth edition, Oxford, [John Lichfield] for Henry Cripps, 1632. 

Hammer Price: £600

Description

[Burton (Robert)] "Democritus Junior". The Anatomy of Melancholy, fourth edition, with initial 'Argument of the Frontispiece' f., engraved title with allegorical border by C. Le Blon, woodcut head- & tail-pieces, initials and device on colophon, title slightly trimmed at foot and with small loss to lower corner and margins repaired, C4 small hole to foot with loss to few letters and single word supplied in manuscript, V3 small rust-hole affecting couple letters, 4B4 & 4V1 repaired tear to foot affecting few letters, final f. portion of loss and repair to fore-edge affecting few words of errata, the occasional other marginal repair, generally very small, some ?18th century ink annotation and occasional underlining or correction (few times trimmed), the odd spot, some light staining and browning, contemporary calf, some restoration and repairs to spine ends and extremities, spine with later morocco label and gilt date to foot, little rubbed, later endpapers, [ESTC S122249; STC 4162], folio, Oxford, [John Lichfield] for Henry Cripps, 1632.

⁂ Provenance: J. Cumming; Elizabeth Martin (ownership names to verso of Argument f.); R. Rudyerd Londini 2 Martii 1714; Thomas Mason his Book 1735 (ownership inscriptions to head of [sec.]2 and verso).

Description

[Burton (Robert)] "Democritus Junior". The Anatomy of Melancholy, fourth edition, with initial 'Argument of the Frontispiece' f., engraved title with allegorical border by C. Le Blon, woodcut head- & tail-pieces, initials and device on colophon, title slightly trimmed at foot and with small loss to lower corner and margins repaired, C4 small hole to foot with loss to few letters and single word supplied in manuscript, V3 small rust-hole affecting couple letters, 4B4 & 4V1 repaired tear to foot affecting few letters, final f. portion of loss and repair to fore-edge affecting few words of errata, the occasional other marginal repair, generally very small, some ?18th century ink annotation and occasional underlining or correction (few times trimmed), the odd spot, some light staining and browning, contemporary calf, some restoration and repairs to spine ends and extremities, spine with later morocco label and gilt date to foot, little rubbed, later endpapers, [ESTC S122249; STC 4162], folio, Oxford, [John Lichfield] for Henry Cripps, 1632.

⁂ Provenance: J. Cumming; Elizabeth Martin (ownership names to verso of Argument f.); R. Rudyerd Londini 2 Martii 1714; Thomas Mason his Book 1735 (ownership inscriptions to head of [sec.]2 and verso).

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