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BRIGHT (TIMOTHY)
A Treatise of Melancholy, John Windet, 1586

25 March 2015, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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BRIGHT (TIMOTHY)

A Treatise of Melancholy, second edition, woodcut device on title, dampstaining to opening 20 leaves, blank corner of final leaf torn away, several neat marginal annotations ("Laughter, merynes, pitie, compassion...") in an early hand, later calf, rebacked [STC 3748; Keynes, Bright 15], 8vo (140 x 87mm.), John Windet, 1586

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Published in the same year as the first edition (it was entered at the Stationer's Register on 24 October), this had the text updated with the amendments madr from the original errata.

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