Lot 70: DONNE, JOHN.

Six Sermons upon Severall Occasions. Cambridge: the Printers to the University [Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel], 1634

Condition Note: 4to, first edition, with initial ornament leaf A1, general title and six separate titles, each within typographic border, woodcut tailpiece and initials, early ownership inscriptions and scribblings on front endpaper, contemporary sheep, morocco lettering-piece, general title with "1669" in ink at lower margin (outside border), some dust-staining throughout, light staining to a few leaves, occasional ink-stains, last few leaves slightly creased, binding somewhat worn, two small holes at foot of spine

STC 7056; Keynes 27

Elizabeth Ragland, early ownership inscription on endpaper; James Barrett, ownership inscriptions on front endpapers ("Huius si libri dominum cognoscere queris | Nomen subscriptum candide lector habes | James Barrett")

These six sermons were all reprinted in Fifty Sermons, 1649 (see lots 71 and 74).