"This, the final volume of the Clarendon Press edition of Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, contains commentary on the Third Partition, in which Burton considers two especial forms of the disease, Love Melancholy and Religious Melancholy. In treating of these Burton had few…
The first volume of an edition which collates the six authoritative 17th century editions, this book takes as its copy-text the edition of 1623. It contains "Democritus Junior to the Reader" and the definition, causes and symptoms of melancholy.
This is the fourth volume of the Clarendon edition of Robert Burton's the "Anatomy of Melancholy" and the first of three volumes of commentary. It contains commentary on the text up to page 327 of Volume One.