Lot 63: DONNE, JOHN.

Poems, by J.D. with Elegies on the Authors Death. M.F. for John Marriot, 1649

Condition Note:

8vo, fourth edition, first issue, later speckled calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, lacking frontispiece portrait, without preliminary blank, author's name in faded ink on title, some spotting and browning, a few headlines and signatures shaved, extremities rubbed, rebacked retaining original spine

Wing D1868; Keynes 81; Grolier Wither to Prior 289

John Theodore Merz, armorial bookplate; I.A. Shapiro, ownership inscription on upper pastedown

a rare edition. "Of this edition very few copies seem to have been circulated, and it is now rare. Probably it was never actually published, the sheets of most of the copies being incorporated in the volume issued by the same publisher in 1650 under the editorship of the younger Donne [see next lot]" (Keynes).