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PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY AND RELIGION

Burton, Robert; Christof Le Blon; John Lichfield; Reuben Burrow. The Anatomy of Melancholy; What it is, with All Kinds of Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes & Severall Cures of it; in three Partitions, with their Severall Sections, Members & Subsection.. Opened & Cut Up; the Fourth Edition, Corrected and Augmented .... Oxford: Printed for Henry Cripps, 1632. . [10], 78, [6], 722, [10]. A large quarto edition rebacked with full calf and five raised bands and gilt lettering over near contemporary boards with new endpapers. A very good copy with all pages present  in spite of the mis-numbering which was endemic to this edition a few spots not obscuring the text and the index and approximately 40 pages paper restoration along outer margins in interior of book along the edges not extending to the text. The classic work on what is now known as depression, has become one of the half dozen classics of the English language in the Renaissance that include the King James Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer and a little later Johnson's Dictionary. Boswell said of it, that Johnson said it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wised to arise. Laurence Sterne, of course, stole from his extensively in composing his Tristam Shandy. It was a favorite of Keats and Samuel Beckett. It is often said that the tapestry with which Burton interwove the ancient classics as well as his own contemporaries was a masterpiece nevertheless of genius and originality. Clearly, this is one of the essential volumes for a great library.

[013805]           $1800

A FINE COPY BOUND BY RIVIERE
 

Thomas a Kempis, Saint (Richard Whytford, translator). OF THE IMITATION OF CHRIST. London: Chatto & Windus, 1908. Octavo. 279(1)pp., translated out of Latin and re-edited into modern English by Richard Whytford, with an Historical Introduction by Wilfrid Raynal, illustrations and designs by W. Russell Flint. First edition with the Flint plates. Illustrated with 8 color plates, finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full red crushed morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, inner gilt dentelles, all edges gilt. A beautiful and fine copy of Flint's second illustrated book.

[014724]                        $750
 

Webster, Edgerton (Edmund Shaftesburgy, Pseud). Book of Glame; A Complete course in Life Electricty; The Source of Vitality. Washington, D.C.: Ralston University Press, 1908. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Decorative Cloth. Fine 319p. One of his earliest publications and very scarce (no copies recorded in OCLC). All of his foundational works were done by 1910 and in the 1920's they were mass produced and read by millions but even in that period his earlier publications had become scarce.

[014354]                    $350

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