The Anatomy of Melancholy

Author: Robert Burton
Language: English
Subjects: Melancholy
Shelves: Category: British Literature · Category: Psychiatry/Psychology · Category: Philosophy & Ethics

The opening, in English.

Introduction to the Project Gutenberg Edition.

This edition of _The Anatomy of Melancholy_ is based on a nineteenth-century edition that modernized Burton's spelling and typographic conventions. In preparing this electronic version, it became evident that the editor had made a variety of mistakes in this modernization: some words were left in their original spelling (unusual words were a particular problem), portions of book titles were mistaken for proper names, proper names were mistaken for book titles or Latin words, etc. A certain number of misprints were also introduced into the Latin. As a result, I have re-edited the text, checking it against images of the 1638 edition, and correcting all errors not present in the earlier edition. I have continued to follow the general editorial practice of the base text for quotation marks, italics, etc. Rare words have been normalized according…

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