Donne, John

Estimate

2,500 - 3,500 USD

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Description

Donne, John
XXVI Sermons Preached by that Learned and Reverend Divine John Donne, Doctor in Divinity, late Dean of the Cathedral Church of St. Pauls, London. The Third Volume. London: Printed at the Charge of Dr. Donne, and are to be sold at his house in Covent-Garden, neare the Fleete-Tavern; at the several Book sellers-shops in London and at Westminster-hall, 1661
printed book

Folio (11 3/8 x 7 1/8 in.; 290 x 183 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut headpiece, initials, and initial-frame; occasional light marginal dampstaining, a few tiny wormholes at fore-edge margins of last several gatherings, lower fore-edge corner of E1 torn away, a few pinholes and marginal stains to title-page, a few later marginalia. Contemporary sheep, plain endpapers, and edges; rebacked, rear cover repaired (note by I. A. Shapiro on front free endpaper reads, "This was wholly in its orig binding until war damage to the building in Manchester where it was housed (1940–44) caused the hinges to crack. It was then rebacked with the loss of the first paste-down, but this is the orig free leaf").

Provenance

Arthur Kay (bookplate) — I. A. Shapiro (signature and notes on front free endpapers; Sotheby's London, 16 December 2004, lot 76). acquisition: Purchased at the foregoing sale through Bernard Quaritch

Literature

Wing D1874; ESTC R171810; Grolier/Donne 67; Keynes, Donne 32a

Catalogue Note

First edition, third issue; one of six recorded copies with the imprint reading "Printed at the Charge of Dr. Donne."