Frontispiece to the 6th edition of Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton (published under the pseudonym Democritus Junior).
Featured on PDR in the essay As a Lute out of Tune: Robert Burton’s Melancholy
In 1621 Robert Burton first published his masterpiece The Anatomy of Melancholy, a vast feat of scholarship examining in encyclopaedic detail that most enigmatic of maladies. Noga Arikha explores the book, said to be the favorite of both Samuel Johnson and Keats, and places it within the context of the humoural theory so popular at the time.
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Frontispiece to the 6th Edition of Anatomy of Melancholy
Date
1868
From
Anatomy of Melancholy
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