The Anatomy of Melancholy

The Anatomy of Melancholy

Allegorical frontispiece to the 1628 third edition, engraved by Christian Le Blon
Author	Robert Burton
Language	Early Modern English
Genre	Medicine, philosophy
Publication date	1621, 1624, 1628, 1632, 1638, and 1651
Publication place	England
Media type	Print
Dewey Decimal	616.89
LC Class	PR2223 .A1

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The Anatomy of Melancholy (full title: The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up) is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621,^[1] but republished five more times over the next seventeen years with massive alterations and expansions.