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[Engraved illustrated title page from The anatomy of melancholy, with leaf of explanatory text].

Accession number
PML 145850.111-112
Creator
Le Blon, Christof, -1665, engraver.
Published
Oxford : Printed for Henry Cripps, 1632.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Engraved illustrated title page (PML 145850.111) and leaf of explanatory text, "The Argument of the Frontispiece" (PML 145850.112), removed from a copy of the 1632 edition of Robert Burton's The anatomy of melancholy (Oxford : Henry Cripps, 1632).
Mounted as items 111 and 112 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Description
[2] leaves : ill. (engraving) ; 28 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Classification
Department