Synopses & Reviews
This is the third and final text volume of the Clarendon edition of Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. It contains "The Third Partition," "The Table," edited from 1624-1651 editions, textual apparatus, and an Index of Persons. Also included are three appendices: "The Conclusion of the Author to the Reader," which occurs only in the 1621 edition, a list of variant formes in the 1632 edition, and collation of the Synoptic Tables.
Review
"A must for all major libraries."--Choice
"The three volumes comprising this portion of the Clarendon edition (two volumes of commentary are yet to come) provide the most thorough, scholarly, and useful edition of Burton's Anatomy ever produced. The editors' foresight and insight amazes, and the physical text itself is as presentable and readable as possible. No scholarly library of English-Renaissance works will want to be without this invaluable edition."--Sixteenth Century Journal will find here the end of their search....Definitive."--Sixteenth-Century Journal