Lot 43: DONNE, JOHN.

SOLD IN AID OF CAFOD
POEMS, BY J.D. WITH ELEGIES ON THE AUTHOR'S DEATH. M[ILES] F[LETCHER] FOR JOHN MARRIOT, 1633
4to (188 x 132 mm.), first edition of the author's collected poems, three woodcut initial capitals, earlier issue with signature Nn1 recto (p.273) in uncorrected state with no running headline and 35 lines of text, without the inserted leaves υ2Aυ2 found in some copies ("The Printer to the Understanders" and "Hexastichon Bibliopolae"), without initial and final blanks, modern antique-style blind-stamped calf, slight tear to outer margin of C2 (not affecting text), some slight browning and spotting, first gathering partially loose

Pforzheimer 296; Keynes Donne 78; STC 7045

Thomas Stanton, early ownership signature on B1 recto; Thomas Jolley, F.S.A., ownership signature on front endpaper dated 1810, armorial bookplate; The Hon. Robert Hesketh, armorial bookplate

Thomas Jolley F.S.A. (d.1854) acquired a significant library of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, including David Garrick's Shakespeare First Folio, which he bought at the ten-day sale of Garrick's library in 1823. This copy (West W34) is now in the Queen's College, Oxford. Jolley's library was sold in a series of sales at Sotheby's between 1843 and 1853.