Lot 268
  • 268

Donne, John

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description

  • Donne, John
  • Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, and severall Steps in my Sicknes … The Third Edition. London: Printed [by Augustine Mathewes] for Thomas Jones, and are to be sold at the Signe of the Black Raven in the Strand, 1626 (but colophon dated 1627)
  • printed book
12mo (6 1/2 x 3 in.; 140 x 78 mm). Woodcut initials, type-ornament headpiece; lacking blank A1; some spotting and browning throughout. Contemporary speckled calf, red edges; worn, front cover detached.

Provenance

acquisition: Seven Gables, 1969

Literature

STC 7035; ESTC S116250; Grolier/Donne 19; Keynes, Donne 37

Condition

12mo (6 1/2 x 3 in.; 140 x 78 mm). Woodcut initials, type-ornament headpiece; lacking blank A1; some spotting and browning throughout. Contemporary speckled calf, red edges; worn, front cover detached.
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Catalogue Note

Third edition, first issue.