Authority Cited: Burton
Author name and dates: Robert Burton (1577-1640)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cleric; “Anatomy of Melancholy” absorbed SJ; humorous psychological philosopher; recorder of miscellaneous older knowledge
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) BKG Note: about 10 Burton cites in1755 Dict. vol. 1, about six Burton cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No Burton cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed., list the following item: 472 3. Anatomy of Melancholy, &c. Per Reddick in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary (p.204) Anatomy of Melancholy (8th edition, 1676), marked by SJ, is in the Bodleian (Dep. c.25). Fleeman notes this item in Appendix II of the facsimile Sale Catalogue as bound with The Primitive Origination of Mankind, considered and examined according to the Light of Nature, by Matthew Hale, 1677, London: Wiliam Godbid . . . also annotated for the Dict.]
Author name and dates: Robert Burton (1577-1640)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cleric; “Anatomy of Melancholy” absorbed SJ; humorous psychological philosopher; recorder of miscellaneous older knowledge
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) BKG Note: about 10 Burton cites in1755 Dict. vol. 1, about six Burton cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No Burton cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, Fleeman, ed., list the following item: 472 3. Anatomy of Melancholy, &c. Per Reddick in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary (p.204) Anatomy of Melancholy (8th edition, 1676), marked by SJ, is in the Bodleian (Dep. c.25). Fleeman notes this item in Appendix II of the facsimile Sale Catalogue as bound with The Primitive Origination of Mankind, considered and examined according to the Light of Nature, by Matthew Hale, 1677, London: Wiliam Godbid . . . also annotated for the Dict.]
- Anatomy of Melancholy (pseud.: Democritus Junior); The anatomy of melancholy what it is, with all the kind causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & severall cures of it, in three partitions, with their severall sections, members & subsections, philosophically, medicinally, historically, opened & cut up by Democritus Junior with a satyricall preface conducing to the following discourse, the eighth edition, corrected and augmented by the author. 1676, London: Printed for Peter Parker at the signe of the Legg & Star in Cornhill over against ye Royal Exchange; addle; colly; costard; doter; filch; fleer; giddyheaded; gripper; hotspur; jolly; macerate; muckhill; mutter; oligarchy (Burt.); quacksalver; squalor
- Burton (no work cited)