Lot 288
  • 288

Donne, John

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
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Description

  • Donne, John
  • Poems on Several Occasions. … With Elegies on the Author’s Death. To this edition is added, some account of the life of the author. London: Printed for J. Tonson; and sold by W. Taylor at the Ship in Pater-noster-Row, 1719
  • printed book
12mo (5 5/8 x 3 1/4 in.; 145 x 84 mm). Woodcut ornaments. Contemporary blind-paneled calf, plain endpapers, sprinkled edges; foot of spine chipped with minor loss.

Provenance

Richard Jennings (Sotheby's London, 18 April 1952, lot 166) — John Hayward (Sotheby's, 14 March 1966, lot 129). acquisition: Purchased at the foregoing sale through Seven Gables

Literature

ESTC T96902; Grolier/Donne 90 (this copy); Grolier/Wither to Prior 292; Keynes, Donne 85

Condition

12mo (5 5/8 x 3 1/4 in.; 145 x 84 mm). Woodcut ornaments. Contemporary blind-paneled calf, plain endpapers, sprinkled edges; foot of spine shipped with minor loss.
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Catalogue Note

Sixth edition.