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(Nonesuch Press) The Anatomie of Melancholy Author: Burton, Robert writing as Democritus Junior Place Published: London Publisher: The Nonesuch Press Date Published: 1925 Description: 3 volumes in 2. With woodcuts by E. McKnight Kauffer. 31x20 cm (12¼x8"), vellum-backed pastepaper-covered boards, spines lettered in gilt. No. 656 of 750 copies in two volumes on Dutch paper, from an overall edition of 790. The first of several works illustrated for the press by E. McKnight Kauffer. Several unopened pages. Provenance: From the collection of Robin and Marsha Garces Williams. "Melancholy, the subject of our present discourse, is either in disposition or in habit. In disposition, is that transitory Melancholy which goes and comes upon every small occasion of sorrow, need, sickness, trouble, fear, grief, passion, or perturbation of the mind, any manner of care, discontent, or thought, which causes anguish, dullness, heaviness and vexation of spirit, any ways opposite to pleasure, mirth, joy, delight, causing forwardness in us, or a dislike. In which equivocal and improper sense, we call him melancholy, that is dull, sad, sour, lumpish, ill-disposed, solitary, any way moved, or displeased. And from these melancholy dispositions no man living is free, no Stoic, none so wise, none so happy, none so patient, so generous, so godly, so divine, that can vindicate himself; so well-composed, but more or less, some time or other, he feels the smart of it." Nonesuch, indeed. Condition: Mild soiling to vellum, some rubbing at extremities; near fine. Item#: 358804 Headline: Nonesuch Press Anatomy of Melancholy