---MADE IN USA---FULL LEATHER BOUND EDITION with some scratches or fading to the gilded page edges. Gold stamping on cover/spine, gilded page edges, hubbed spine and satin book ribbon---The Anatomy of Melancholy is a patchwork quilt of almost half-a-million words of miscellaneous learning, an inexhaustible quarry of quotations, a rambling, often irrelevant, irregularly systematised commentary on the human comedy, always excessive and overspilling. It is the life work of a melancholy philosopher who in spite of his depression found cheerfulness and waggery constantly breaking through. Burton wrote it, so he says, to beguile his melancholy, ease his mind and help other sufferers. In the words of Sir William Osler, "No book in any language presents such a stage of moving pictures - kings and queens in their greatness and in their glory, in their madness and in their despair; generals and conquerors with their ambitions and activities; the princes of the church in their pride and their shame; philosophers of all ages.criminals, small and great, from the petty thief to Nero with his unspeakable atrocities.a motley procession of humanity sweeps before us on his stage, a fantastic but fascinating medley at which he does not know whether to weep or to laugh.".

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Title

The Anatomy of Melancholy LEATHERBOUND

Publisher

Gryphon Editions

Publication Date

2020

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

Special Edition

Condition

Fine

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Classics of Psychiatry

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Gryphon Editions publishes facsimile reproductions of the classic books in Law, Medicine, Science and Political Thought. Each volume is luxuriously bound in leather at prices that are surprisingly affordable. Every volume is fully bound in top-quality leather, or is quarter-leather bound with fine library buckram, and embellished with gold stamping of an original design. The raised bands across the spine are distinctive of the classic bookmaker's art. Specially commissioned marbelized endleaves are reminiscent of fine Old World editions. Coordinating headbands grace both ends of the spine and add strength. The acid-free leaves are gilded for additional protection and elegance. A permanent silk ribbon marker ensures easy reference.

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