J. Donne

Lot 61: DONNE, JOHN.

Name: DONNE, JOHN.
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: ehmyqolozd

Est: £800 GBP - £1,200 GBPSold:

Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomDecember 16, 2004

Item Overview

Description

Poems, by J.D. with Elegies on the Authors Death. M. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1635

Condition Note: 8vo, second edition, two woodcut historiated initials, contemporary speckled calf, lacking portrait frontispiece, title-page dust-stained, A2 and A3 dust-stained at corners (with headline of A2v shaved), lower outer corners of first few leaves very slightly browned, very light marginal staining to some gatherings, occasional signature and headline shaved, very slight wear to binding, rebacked

Artist or Maker

J. Donne

Literature

STC 7046; Keynes 79; Grolier Langland to Wither 72

Provenance

Bookplate with motto "Esse Quam Videre"; Arthur Kay, bookplate; I.A. Shapiro, ownership inscription on front pastedown

Notes

This edition contains seventeen additional poems by Donne.

Auction Details

English Literature, History & Children's Books and Illustrations

Sotheby's

December 16, 2004, 12:00 AM EST

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

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