Lot 58: DONNE, JOHN.

Poems by J.D. with elegies on the authors death. M.F. for John Marriot, 1633

Condition Note: 4to, first edition of the author's collected poems, two woodcut initials, inserted engraved frontispiece portrait of Donne by Pieter Lombart (probably from the Letters, 1651 or 1654), full maroon morocco gilt by Ramace, turn-ins, all edges gilt, book-label, lacking final blank, small hole in margin of Dd2 (not affecting text), very occasional slight staining in some margins, occasional light foxing, a near fine and large copy

Keynes 78; Grolier Wither to Prior 286; Pforzheimer 296; STC 7045

This fine copy contains the two leaves headed "The printer to the understanders" and (on the verso of the second) "Hexastichon Bibliopolae".