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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

Bible.
A fragment from a mediaeval Bible. The other side of the page (not examined) has the remainder of Genesis XL and the beginning of chapter XLI., Gift of Bob Burke.
The history of Bath.
By the Rev. Richard Warner.
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.
The workes of our antient and learned English poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed. In this impression you shall find these additions. 1. His portraiture and progenie shewed. 2. His life collected. 3. Arguments to every booke gathered. 4. Old and obscure
Gothic type., Includes John Lydgate's The siege of Thebes., Many errors in numbering of leaves., Edited by Tho. Speght., Title within architectural border. The Canterbury tales, The romavnt of the rose, and The story of Thebes compiled by John Lindgate, are each prededed by a half-title (title within portraits of English kings).