THE COMPLEAT MELANCHOLICK, BEING A SEQUENCE OF FOUND, COMPOSITE, AND COMPOSED POEMS, BASED LARGELY UPON ROBERT BURTON'S THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY.
- Minneapolis: The Bieler Press, (1985).
- small 8vo.
- stiff paper wrappers.
- 67, (3) pages.
Price: $145.00 other currencies
Order Nr. 123518
Reprint of the hand-set limited edition. Sequence of 26 poems, often collages of the author's own lines with quotations from Burton, with some poems entirely the author's, sometimes in Burton's language, and one or two "composed" entirely from Burton. Many items were previously published elsewhere, in different versions and/or under different titles. With a woodcut entitled "Melancholy" taken from the Augsburg Chronicle (c1480). See p.3 of the 1990 Bieler catalogue.
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