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Full brown Levant, gilt, all edges gilt, washed and resized. A fine and complete copy, bound by Riviere, in a matching pull-off case. Bookplates of Sir Edward Sullivan (1822-1885), Lord Chancellor of Ireland ("An ardent and lifelong bibliophile, he had at his death amassed one of the most valuable private libraries in the kingdom" ODNB) and Fleming Crooks. "The Anatomy ... was one of the most popular books of the seventeenth century. All the learning of the age as well as its humour--and its pedantry--are there...it exercised a considerable influence on the thought of its time," PMM. Among its admirers one can count Samuel Johnson, Laurence Sterne, John Keats (who said it was his favorite book ), and Charles Lamb. In more recent times the work has served as an inspiration for such a diverse group as Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, Philip Pullman, and Cy Twombly.

The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is. With all the Kindes, Causes, Symptomes, Prognosticks, and several Cures of it.... By Democritus Junior.
Burton, Robert.
Oxford: Printed by John Litchfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1621. Full brown Levant, gilt, all edges gilt, washed and resized. A fine and complete copy, bound by Riviere, in a.. more
Price: $45,000.00

Original yellow-grey cloth, slight foxing to the endpapers, otherwise a fine copy in dust jacket with some trifling edge wear. 1500 copies were printed. The poet-painter's first book, and one of the greatest works of literature to come out of the first World War.

In Parenthesis.
Jones, David.
London: Faber & Faber, (1937). Original yellow-grey cloth, slight foxing to the endpapers, otherwise a fine copy in dust jacket with some trifling edge wear... more
Price: $3,000.00

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