° [Burton, Robert - The Anatomie of Melancholy] i.e. lacks ...

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° [Burton, Robert - The Anatomie of Melancholy] i.e. lacks pictorial engraved title, (half title present - with 'The Argument of the Frontispiece' on verso). 6th (revised) edition.
engraved head and tailpieces, decorated initial letters; (6), 78, (6), 218, (4), 219, 723, (9)pp.; old half calf and marbled boards, sometime rebacked with gilt-lettered panelled spine, marbled e/ps., 4to. printed by R.W. for Henry Cripps of Oxford ... 1651

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Sm. hole half title affects first letter T (of The) and one word (Argument of Frontis.) on verso, some soiling on this leaf, o/w. only some intermittent spots in text, save some pencilling p.477; pagination - should be (i.e.733pp.), pp. 96/97 used twice, 4 extra pp. at 575, 4 extra pp. at 140, signatures agree; imprint from colophon (last page), with the corrections note (signed H. C.) above it; verso of this leaf is blank; later blanks front and back; front inner hinge weak; on the spine lettering this work is ascribed to Malebrauche. Pagination - p.218 numbered 454, p.219 numbered 216