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Nichols Rare Books Collection

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OU Libraries’ Nichols Rare Books digital collection includes a 1598 edition of Chaucer’s works, a 1628 edition of Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy, and a second folio (1632 edition) of “Mr William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies”. All images in the digital collection have been released to the public domain. When using images from this collection, please include the following attribution statement: Image(s) courtesy of the John and Mary Nichols Collection, University of Oklahoma Libraries, Norman, Oklahoma.

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Nichols Rare Books Collection

The Anatomy Of Melancholy. What it is, with all the kinds causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & seuerall cures of it. In three Partitions, with their severall Sections, members & subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, opened & cut vp. By
Colophon [between woodcuts]: Oxford, Printed by Iohn Lichfield, Printer to the Famous Vniversity, for Henry Cripps. Ann. Dom. 1628., Illustrated t.-p., engr. by C. le Blon., Paging irregular: nos. 79-80 and 583-584 repeated in paging; 4 p. are inserted between p. 208-209 and 2 p. between p. 374-375. In this copy Sig. ** precedes Sig. A; according to the Hoe and Huntington library catalogues it precedes Sig. a.
Mr. William Shakespeare's comedies, histories, and tragedies : published according to the true originall copies.
Title vignette: Droeshout's portrait of Shakespeare., Colophon: Printed at London by Thomas Cotes, for John Smethwick, William Aspley, Richard Hawkins, Richard Meighen, and Robert Allot, 1632., Dedication, and preface "To the great variety of readers" signed: John Heminge, Henry Condell., The Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies are separately paged., Errors in pagination in pt.1, p 46, 58, 153, 194, 249-250, 265 misprinted respectively 64, 80, 151, 494 251-252, 273; in pt. 2, 47-48 omitted in numbering, p. 89-90 misprinted 91-92, p. 100 followed by an unnumbered leaf, which is followed by repeated numbering of 69-100, p. 194-95 (2nd group) misprinted 49 and 59, p. 209 misprinted 120; in pt. 3, 169-268 omitted in numbering, p. 96, 154, 286-287, 341-342, 351-352, 355, 389 misprinted respectively 67, 134, 186-187, 143-144, 151-152,335, 399.