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Sealts Number 103
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| Author: |
Burton, Robert, 1577-1640. |
| Title: |
Melancholy; as it Proceeds from the Disposition and Habit, the Passion of Love, and the Influence of Religion. Drawn Chiefly from the Celebrated Work Intitled, Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy; and in which the Kinds, Causes, Consequences and Cures of this English Malady "are traced from within Its inmost centre to its outmost skin." |
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London: Printed by T. Maiden, Sherbourne-Lane, For Vernor and Hood, J. Cuthell, J. Walker, J. Sewell, Lackington, Allen, & Co. Ogilvy & Son, J. Nunn, W. Otridge & Son, & R. Lea, 1801. |
Sealts
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103 |
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Autographed by Herman Melville's father Allan Melvill, and later by Herman Melville. |
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Houghton Library, *AC85.M4977.Zz801b. |
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Front inscriptions: "A Melvill"; "Herman Melville April 10th 1847." Melville's 7 July 1851 inscription on the front free endpaper, recorded beneath the faded autograph of his late father Allan Melvill (first discerned by Melville's brother Allan Jr.), documents the uncanny recovery of this family copy, which was auctioned during Allan Melvill's precipitous financial decline in Herman's boyhood (see inscription
). For Melville's 1847 Wiley edition of Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, see Sealts No. 102. For other books purchased by Melville on 10 April 1847 (a day of book buying in preparation for the composition of his third book Mardi, published in 1849), see Sealts Nos. 75, 175, 211, 293, 530a, and 550. |
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