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Democritus Junior = Robert Burton.
Engraved title page is signed: C: le Blon. fe.
Half-title reads: The anatomie of melancholy.
Printers' names from STC. For an account of the printing history of this edition see "Oxford Bib. Soc. Proceedings & Papers" I (1922-6), p. 194-7.
"This edition was printed by R. Young at Edinburgh, L. Litchfield at Oxford, and W. Turner at Oxford, with cancels by M. Flesher at London"--Smith, P.J.- Bib. Burtoniana, p. 88.
Leaf 2L1, intended to be cancelled, is retained in many copies.
Variant: with an additional letterpress title page dated 1638.
Variant: Synopsis of the first partition ( ²[sec.]²) bound in at end of First partition, after leaf K4.
Signatures: [sec.]⁴([sec. 1]+chi1) ²[sec.]² A-K⁴ ²A-R⁴ S⁶ T-2H⁴ 2I⁶ 2K⁴ 2L⁴( -2L1) 2M-4E⁴ 4F² 4G-5A⁴.
Illustrated engraved title page, head-pieces, initials; printed marginal notes.
Numerous errors in pagination.
Errata on leaf 5A4 recto.
Includes index.
Osler, W. Bibliotheca Osleriana, 4625
Osler, W. Bibliotheca Osleriana, 4626
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) 4163
English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), S122250
Madan, F. Oxford books, II, p. 141
Jordan-Smith, P. Bibliographia Burtoniana, p. 86
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