Lot 71: DONNE, JOHN.

Two volumes of Sermons:

Condition Note:

LXXX Sermons. For Richard Royston and Richard Marriot, 1640, folio, first edition, later state (as in most copies) of engraved title-page, device on title, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials; Fifty Sermons...The Second Volume. Ja. Flesher for M.F.J. Marriot and R. Royston, 1649, folio, first edition, device on title, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials; both volumes uniformly bound in modern panelled morocco, spines gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, table of first volume bound in at end of second, first volume without preliminary blank, preliminary leaves slightly spotted and frayed, small repair to inner margin of title of second volume, slight browning and occasional spotting or dust-stains to both volumes, bindings slightly scratched, otherwise good copies with wide margins (2)

STC 7038 & Wing D1862; Keynes 29 & 30; Grolier Wither to Prior 293 (LXXX Sermons)

Arthur Kay, book-labels; I.A. Shapiro, ownership inscriptions (and annotations on front free endpaper of first volume)

I.A. Shapiro notes on the front endpaper of the first volume that "Z3r has uncorr[ected]. reading (9ll. from bottom)".