J. Donne

Lot 171: DONNE, JOHN.

Name: DONNE, JOHN.
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: 102zp9cscp

Est: £1,000 GBP - £1,500 GBPSold:

Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomMay 27, 2004

Item Overview

Description

Letters to Severall Persons of Honour:..., Printed by J. Flesher, and are to be sold by John Sweeting, 1654

Artist or Maker

J. Donne

Condition Report

small 4to, first edition, second issue with cancel title, engraved portrait frontispiece by Pieter Lombart, contemporary speckled sheep, blind-tooled borders on covers and compartments on spine, modern solander box, worm holes to front free end-paper and at head and foot of spine, lower joint split at head, otherwise an excellent copy

Literature

Wing D1865; Keynes Donne 56

Provenance

Herbert Aubrey, contemporary manuscript annotations on front endpaper

Auction Details

The Library of John R.B. Brett-Smith

Sotheby's

May 27, 2004, 12:00 AM EST

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK

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