NMLP P-041319 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19

The Anatomy of Melancholy

Robert Burton · Printed by John Lichfield and James Short for Henry Cripps, Oxford · 1621

No book-club or club-format edition of the hand-press Anatomy exists. The circulating reprints are the tell: nineteenth-century multi-volume sets, Everyman and Nonesuch editions, the New York Review Books Classics reissue, the Clarendon/Oxford critical edition, and print-on-demand facsimiles struck from EEBO scans. Separately, loose engraved title pages from broken-up later folios are sold as decorative prints and are sometimes offered as a fragment of "the first edition" — the 1621 first never had one.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-041319 for "The Anatomy of Melancholy" by Robert Burton (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041319, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).