The anatomy of melancholy : vvhat it is ; vvith all the kindes, causes, symptomes, prognosticks, and seuerall cures of it ; in three maine partitions, with their seuerall sections, members, and subsections ; philosophically, medicinally, historically opened and cut vp
Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, printed at Oxford in 1624 by John Lichfield and James Short for the bookseller Henry Cripps, is a dense scholarly treatise on the causes, symptoms and cures of melancholy, aimed at learned readers. Its pictures are letter-sized woodcut decorative initials and printed border strips built from scrolling foliage, interlaced leaves and rosettes, which a designer could adapt for ornamental capitals, headers or repeating borders.
