Estimate: | £200 - £300 |
Hammer price: | £160 |
BURTON, Robert (1577-1640). The Anatomy of Melancholy. What it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & several cures of it. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1925. 2 volumes, folio (310 x 195mm). Woodcut frontispiece, the title within illustrated border, illustrations by E. McNight Kauffer, the colophon at the front of vol. one printed in red and black, the text printed in double column, the typography by Francis Meynell. Original vellum-backed decorated paper boards, uncut (lightly stained). NUMBER 364 OF 750 COPIES ON DUTCH PAPER. McKitterick (and others) A History of the Nonesuch Press 28. With 2 other books, namely Erasmus's The Praise of Folie ... Englished by Sir Thomas Chaloner (London, Essex House Press, 1901, folio, illustrations and ornaments by William Strang, original vellum backed decorated boards, NUMBER 125 OF 250 COPIES) and The Book of Job ... with the Twenty-Two Engravings of William Blake (London, Ernest Benn Ltd & The Westminster Press, 1927, 4to, plates, original black cloth decorated in gilt, dust-jacket, jacket torn with some loss). (4)