Lot 169: DONNE, JOHN.

Poems, by J.D. With Elegies on the Author's Death, Printed by M.F. for for John Marriot, 1639

8vo, third edition, a remboitage binding of contemporary olive morocco gilt, covers with outer frame and central panel of double dog-tooth roll border, fleurons at corners of central panel, large centrepiece comprising rolled oval, fleurons, feathers and fleur-de-lys, spine in seven compartments with double dog-tooth roll border, gilt edges, lacks portrait frontispiece, small holes or short tears to A2, A5, S3, V3 and Dd5, generally with some slight loss of text, the spine overly large for the book, slit at the lower joint and reattached to the lower cover, traces of repair to corners and spine head, later endpapers

Keynes Donne 80