[Title page from] The anatomy of melancholy [graphic]

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Title: [Title page from] The anatomy of melancholy [graphic]
Alternative Title: Anatomy of melancholy
Creator: Le Blon, Christof, -1665, printmaker
Contributor: Cripps, Henry, fl. 1620-1658, publisher.
Published / Created: 1628.
Publication Place: Oxford
Publisher: Printed for Henry Cripps
Description: Title from item.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Engraved title page.
"The thirde edition, corrected and augmented by the author".
Cf. No. 126 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 1.
Mounted and window mounted to 33 x 24 cm. Lower right portion of sheet torn off; loss at the center of bottom of plate with missing design filled in ink on mounting sheet.
Sitter in portrait below title identified on mounting sheet by J. Reed[?] as Robert Burton.
Provenance: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 27 x 16 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1628
Etchings England Oxford 1628
Title pages
Annotations (Provenance)
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1628
England > Oxford > 1628

Access: Public
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