Rare Book with book plate and signature of J. Doggett Daggett

I was searching for another book, when I came across this rare book dealers listing of the following below.  

This is not a book written by our family member, but in fact sheds light on a book owned within our descendants personal library.  I was informed the book has been sold (listed price was $2500.00 USD.  I was curious to see a visual of the armorial book plate of our J. Daggett (Doggett) ancestor.  I am posting because I know most of you are collectors of Doggett Daggett Scott history and memorabilia.  I do hope that one of our family members purchased it for their library.  I also hope if they did, that they read this, and forward a copy of the internal book plate with signature of J. Daggett to add to our virtual collections on this Doggett Daggett Scott blog.

I had requested a jpeg of the book plate.  The owner of the rare bookstore kindly emailed with the updates that the book had sold, and that they are no longer in business as well. 




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First American Edition of “One of the Most Popular Books of the Seventeenth Century” (PMM)
26. buRToN, RobERT. The Anatomy of Melancholy ... First American, from the thirteenth English edition, corrected. To which is now first prefixed An Account of the Author. Philadelphia: T. Wardle, 1836.
First American edition (first published in London in 1621). Two large octavo volumes. xxiv, 121, [1, blank], 461, [1, blank]; [4], 612 pp. With a woodcut vignette portrait of the author and several charts.
Original purple blindstamped cloth decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt on spines. Spines very slightly faded, minimal rubbing to extremities. Some light foxing, as usual. Volume I with lower blank corner of pp. 75/76 torn away (paper flaw?), gathering 2H slightly browned. Armorial book- plate of Doggett Daggett on front pastedown. Pencil signature of J. Daggett on front free endpaper. Early ink ownership inscription on front free end- paper of Volume II. A fine copy housed in a brown cloth clamshell case.
“The whole book is elaborately divided and subdivided into partitions, divisions, sections, members and sub-sections. The first partition is devoted to the definition of his subject and its species and kinds,
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the causes of it and -- at length -- the symptoms ... The second deals with the cure, and Burton’s dem- onstration that it is necessary to live in the right part of the world to avoid melancholy occasions a long digression: a delightful account of foreign lands based -- for Burton never traveled -- on a wide read- ing of the cosmographers, and a powerful advocacy of the delights of country life. The third part deals with the more frivolous kinds of melancholy and the fourth with the serious, Religious Melancholy. The Anatomy, as its publishing history shows, was one of the most popular books of the seventeenth century. All the learning of the age as well as its humour -- and its pedantry -- are there. ... Dr. Johnson deeply admired it, and Charles Lamb’s often and strongly expressed devotion served to rescue the Anatomy from a brief period of oblivion ...” (Printing and the Mind of Man).
American Imprints 26466. Printing and the Mind of Man 120 (the first edition). The First Edition of Byron’s Collected Works, Complete with Thirty-Four Plates
27. bYRoN, GEoRGE GoRdoN, loRd. The Works of Lord Byron : With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, By Thomas Moore, Esq. London: John Murray, 1832-33.
First edition of Byron’s collected works. Seventeen twelvemo volumes (6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches; 165 x 108 mm). Each volume with an engraved frontispiece and vi- gnette title by William and Edward Fin- den (thirty-four total).
Nineteenth century three-quarters red morocco over cloth by Root & Son, smooth spines lettered and stamped in gilt featur- ing a laurel motif, top edges gilt. Some very light foxing to some plates, else a near-fine copy of this famous work.
$2,500

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