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Donne, John
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4,000 - 6,000 USD
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- Donne, John
- Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, and severall Steps in my Sicknes: Digested into 1. Meditations upon our Humane Condition. 2. Expostulations, and Debatements with God. 3. Prayers, upon the severall Occasions, to Him. … The Second Edition. London: Printed by A[ugustine]. M[athewes]. for Thomas Jones, 1624
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12mo (5 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.; 134 x 79 mm). Type-ornament headpieces, with initial blank A1 (torn and soiled); final page (colophon) a bit soiled. Contemporary vellum, covers gilt with intersecting gilt rules and central angel ornament, smooth spine gilt-ruled and -tooled, remnants of blue ribbon ties.
Provenance
Richard Jennings (Sotheby's London, 28 April 1952, lot 160)— Apsley Cherry-Garrard. acquisition: Bernard Quaritch, ca. 1971
Literature
STC 7034; ESTC S1877; Grolier/Donne 18 (this copy); Keynes, Donne 36
Catalogue Note
Second edition. The binding "is similar to ones in the travelling libraries of Sir Francis Bacon (Toledo Museum of Art), Lord Egerton (Huntington Library), Sir Julius Caesar (British Museum), and one made for a member of the Madden family (Brotherton Library, Leeds). The books, each with a gilt angel stamped on the sides, as in the present example, were divided into classes such as Poetry, History, etc., identifiable by the color of the ties" (Grolier).