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WORDSWORTH'S LIBRARY - RYDAL MOUNT BURTON (ROBERT) The Anatomy of Melancholy... Eighth Edition, Corrected and Augmented by the Author, FROM WORDSWORTH'S LIBRARY, Peter Parker, 1676, sold as an association item image 1
WORDSWORTH'S LIBRARY - RYDAL MOUNT BURTON (ROBERT) The Anatomy of Melancholy... Eighth Edition, Corrected and Augmented by the Author, FROM WORDSWORTH'S LIBRARY, Peter Parker, 1676, sold as an association item image 2
WORDSWORTH'S LIBRARY - RYDAL MOUNT BURTON (ROBERT) The Anatomy of Melancholy... Eighth Edition, Corrected and Augmented by the Author, FROM WORDSWORTH'S LIBRARY, Peter Parker, 1676, sold as an association item image 3
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WORDSWORTH'S LIBRARY - RYDAL MOUNT
BURTON (ROBERT) The Anatomy of Melancholy... Eighth Edition, FROM WORDSWORTH'S LIBRARY, Peter Parker, 1676

15 September 2021, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £3,187.50 inc. premium

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WORDSWORTH'S LIBRARY - RYDAL MOUNT

BURTON (ROBERT) The Anatomy of Melancholy... Eighth Edition, Corrected and Augmented by the Author, FROM WORDSWORTH'S LIBRARY, engraved pictorial title-page incorporating a portrait of the author, letterpress "Argument of the Frontispiece" before title, lacks 5 leaves at end (index, etc.), 2 leaves (pp.315-318) with long tear repaired with thread, fore-margin of pp.399 to end with minor rodent damage touching a few letters on a couple of pages, later boards, crudely rebacked, old lot label "Lot 143" at foot of spine, worn [ESTC R10536], folio (325 x 200m.), Peter Parker, 1676, sold as an association item

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Provenance: "Bought at Rydal Mount. Westmorland/July 21st 1859", note in a nineteenth century hand on front paste-down, with large initials "W.W." in another hand on the half-title.

The sale of Wordsworth's Library was undertaken by John Burton of Preston, and took place over three days from 19 to 21 June 1859. Lot 343 was a copy of Robert Burton's Anatomy, 1676, the catalogue description giving a long quote by Dibdin on the work but no information on the binding etc.

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