[Classics of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Library]. BRIGHT, Timothy

A Treatise of Melancholy

New York, Classics of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Library, 1995 (facsimile edition)/ 1586.

Duodecimo, [iv], [xvi], 276, [1] (colophon) pages.

Gilt-decorated full leather, all edges gilt; a fine copy.

Written by doctor turned cleric, Timothy Bright (1551?-1615), who placed the lens of each of his professions on the study of melancholia for the benefit of sufferers, in this earliest extant English work on the subject.

The pictorial bookplate of Robert Finlay-Jones is mounted on the verso of the front free endpaper.

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