Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control...read more

Product Description: This volume contains commentary on the text from Partition 1, Section 2, Member 4, Subscription 1 to the end of the second Partition. It thus includes Burton's account of the causes, symptoms, and prognosis of melancholy, and his examination of remedies, spiritual and medical. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Burton's learned and satirical The Anatomy of Melancholy (first published in 1621) is one of the last great works of English prose to have remained unedited. This volume inaugurates an authoritative edition of the work, which is being prepared by a team of scholars from both sides of the Atlantic...read more