Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts

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Lot 294
  • 294

Donne, John

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Description

  • Donne, John
  • Essayes in Divinity … Being Several Disquisitions, Interwoven with Meditations and Prayers: Before he Entred into Holy Orders. Now Made Publick by his Son J.D. London: Printed by T. M. for Richard Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St Dunstans Church-yard Fleet-street, 1651
  • printed book
12mo (5 3/4 x 3 1/8 in.; 146 x 80 mm). Title within type-ornament border, type-ornament initial-frames and head- and tailpieces, with initial blank. Contemporary calf, covers and spine ruled in blind, early paper label on spine, plain endpapers, red-sprinkled edges; slightest rubbing.

Provenance

Henry Some (? contemporary signature on title-page) — Richard Jennings (Sotheby's London, 28 April 1952, lot 168) — Apsley Cherry-Garrard. acquisition: Bernard Quaritch, ca. 1971

Literature

Wing D1861; ESTC R1266; Grolier/Donne 23; Grolier/Wither to Prior 295, Keynes, Donne 50; Thomason Tracts; 179:E.1362[1]

Catalogue Note

First edition. A fine copy and one of a very few surviving separately bound in contemporary calf. The dedication (A3–7) is cancelled as usual.