The Anatomy of Melancholy is an expansive work on depression and a variety of other subjects written by Robert Burton.
Bibliographic notesBurton's first edition of The Anatomy of Melancholy was published in 1621, as by "Democritus Junior". Burton revised his work repeatedly thereafter, publishing four more revised editions in his lifetime. A sixth edition published in 1651 included "severall considerable additions" that Burton wrote but had not published by the time of his death in 1640. Many more recent editions have also been published, some with annotations that may make the work more accessible to modern readers.
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The Anatomy of Melancholy (Oxford: Printed by Lichfield and Short, 1621), by Robert Burton (multiple formats at archive.org). The first edition. - The Anatomy of Melancholy (Oxford: Printed by Lichfield and Short, 1624), by Robert Burton (multiple formats at archive.org). The second edition.
- The Anatomy of Melancholy (Oxford: Printed for H. Cripps, 1628), by Robert Burton (multiple formats at archive.org). The third edition.
- The Anatomy of Melancholy (Oxford: Printed for H. Cripps, 1638), by Robert Burton (multiple formats at archive.org). The fifth edition, the last published in Burton's lifetime.
- The Anatomy of Melancholy (Oxford: Printed for H. Cripps, 1651), by Robert Burton (multiple formats at archive.org). The sixth edition, with some previously unpublished additions by Burton.
- The Anatomy of Melancholy: What It Is, With All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Severall Cures of It: In Three Partitions, With Their Severall Sections, Members and Subsections, Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up (London: Printed for J. Ganway, 1660), by Robert Burton (page images at NIH)
- The Anatomy of Melancholy (Philadelphia: J. W. Moore; New York: J. Wiley, 1850), by Robert Burton (page images at MOA)
- The Anatomy of Melancholy (London: Chatto and Windus, 1883), by Robert Burton (HTML with commentary at exclassics.com)
- The Anatomy of Melancholy, by Robert Burton, ed. by Karl Hagen (Gutenberg text)
- Look for editions of this book at your library, or elsewhere.