Democritus Junior
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In 1621 was issued at Oxford the first edition, a quarto, of The Anatomy of Melancholy ... by Democritus Junior.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various
Democritus Junior, a pseudonym under which Burton published his "Anatomy of Melancholy."
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin
I, Democritus Junior, have put my finishing pen to a tractate De Melancholia, this day, December 5, 1620.
From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles
Robert Burton, otherwise Democritus Junior, the author of that glorious book The Anatomy of Melancholy, is stated by Wood to have been born at Lindley, in Leicestershire.
From Notes and Queries, Number 67, February 8, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
The Anatomy of Melancholy, in which he appears under the name of Democritus Junior, was pub. in 1621, and had great popularity.
From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)
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