Lot 82: DONNE, JOHN.

Juvenilia or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes...The second Edition, corrected. E.P[urslowe]. for Henry Seyle, 1633

Condition Note:

4to, second edition, woodcut device on title, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, typographical ornaments, late nineteenth-/early twentieth-century half morocco, marbled boards, without initial blank, title slightly dust-stained, very light dampstains to corners of two leaves, some early underlinings and markings in ink, very light browning to a few pages (heavier on last page), slight wear to covers

STC 7044; Keynes 44 (referring to this copy); Grolier Wither to Prior 285

James Davenant, contemporary ownership inscription on title with price ("p[re]tiu[m] 4^d"); Augustus Jessopp (1823-1914), ownership inscription on front free endpaper; I.A. Shapiro, ownership inscriptions on front free endpaper dated April 1930 and autograph note ("Much rarer than the first edn.")