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Burton was an obsessive editor of his own work, publishing five revised and expanded editions of The Anatomy of Melancholy during his lifetime. It has often been out of print, particularly between 1676 and 1800. [4]
Robert Burton (8 February 1577 – 25 January 1640) was an English author and fellow of Oxford University, known for his encyclopedic The Anatomy of Melancholy. Born in 1577 to a comfortably well-off family of the landed gentry , Burton attended two grammar schools and matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1593, age 15.
English: Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, 1628, third edition. The frontispiece is an allegorical work, explained within the book. The frontispiece is an allegorical work, explained within the book.
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The Robert Burton Collection, as it is called, includes copies of the first six editions of Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, a copy of the 1927 edition edited by Smith and Floyd Dell, and editions of various Renaissance Latin authors and others cited by Burton. [9]
After retiring as Principal, Bamborough focused on scholarship. Since 1979 he had been working on the world's first full commentary on Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, an enormous 17th Century book with hundreds of obscure sources. The final volume of Bamborough's work was published in 2000, nine years before his death.
Walkington was author of a book that anticipated Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy.It was entitled The Optick Glasse of Humors, or the Touchstone of a Golden Temperature, or the Philosophers Stone to make a Golden Temper.
Robert Burton refers to Roeslin in his Anatomy of Melancholy. By 1580 Roeslin had finished his book, Speculum et harmonia mundi , however he needed a patron in order to get his book published. At the time Roeslin was physician-in-ordinary to the count palatine of Veldenz and the count of Hanau-Lichtenberg in Buchsweiler in Alsace , [ 9 ] Georg ...