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