Donne, John

4to (7 1/8 x 5 1/2 in; 181 x 140 mm). Woodcut ornament on title-page; some marginal browning. Contemporary calf; spine laid down, rubbed, edges chipped.

Bound with 2 other works by Donne: Six Sermons upon Severall Occasions, Preached before the King, and Elsewhere. Cambridge: Printed by [Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel] the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge: and are to be sold by Nicholas Fussell and Humphrey Mosley, at their shop in Pauls Church-yard [London], 1634. First edition. With A1 blank apart from ornament (STC 7056) — Deaths Duell, or, A Consolation to the Soule, against the Dying Life, and Living Death of the Body. London: Printed by B. Alsop, and T. Fawcet, for Beniamin Fisher, and are to be sold at the signe of the Talbot in Aldersgate-street, 1633. Second edition. Lacking A2 (STC 7032)

Long Island Historical Society (stamp on title-page). acquisition: Seven Gables, 1865

STC 7057.5; ESTC S124672; Grolier/Donne 59 (this copy); Keynes, Donne 17a

First edition, second issue; the unique complete copy of the second issue of the first attempted at publishing a collection of Donne's sermons. Three Sermons upon Speciall Occasions reissues, with a new general title-page, A Sermon upon the XX. Verse of the V. Chapter of the Booke of Judges  (STC 7054, Keynes 14); A Sermon upon the VIII. Verse of the I. Chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. Preach'd to the Honourable Company of the Virginian Plantation (STC 7051, Keynes 15); and Encænia. The Feast of Dedication. Celebrated at Lincolnes Inne, in a Sermon there upon Ascension Day, 1623. At the Dedication of a New Chappell There (STC 7039, Keynes 16). The only other recorded copy, at Trinity College Cambridge, is a fragment only.