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 up
Robert Burton's 1628 Anatomy of Melancholy, printed in Oxford by John Lichfield for the bookseller Henry Cripps, is a learned medical and philosophical treatise on melancholy. The pictures are decorative woodcut initial letters, mostly square blocks with a large capital set among hatched scrollwork, strapwork and winged figures, offering a designer models for ornamental drop caps and framed monograms.
