Author Description

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.