Lot 84: DONNE, JOHN.

Ignatius his Conclave: or, His Inthronisation in a late Election in Hell: wherein many things are mingled by way of Satyr. Concerning the Disposition of Jesuites, the Creation of a new Hell, the establishing of a Church in the Moone. There is also added an Apology for Jesuites. All dedicated to the two adversary Angels, which are protectors of the Papall Consistory and of the Colledge of Sorbon. For John Marriott, 1635

Condition Note:

12mo, third edition, variant title with the date altered to 1635, Genealogies at end with woodcut ornamental border, typographical ornaments, contemporary sheep, small dampstain and rust-mark to head of title, very small tear to margin of B6 repaired, very light unobtrusive marginal damp-staining throughout, tiny wormholes to inner margins, several leaves strengthened at inner margins (not affecting text), narrow ink-stain to outer margins of last gathering, edges of last few leaves browned with small rustmarks, F10 remargined, text at foot of last four leaves cropped (and shaved at outer margins), binding slightly worn, rebacked

[together with:] Ignatius His Conclave...Reproduced in facsimile from the edition of 1611 with an Introduction by Charles M. Coffin. The Facsimile Text Society, Columbia University Press, New York, 1941, 12mo, original cloth

STC 7030; Keynes 9 (referring to this copy)

Henry Maister, ownership inscription at head of title; I.A. Shapiro, ownership inscription on front free endpaper and autograph notes on upper pastedown: "This edn. is rare. Keynes [an earlier edition] records only one copy in private possession. The pp. of Speed's Genealogies bound in at the end were under the original paste-downs."

Ignatius his Conclave, first published in both English and Latin editions in 1611, was Donne's principal published attack on the Jesuits and the doctrines of Cardinal Bellarmine, written in consequence of Donne's empoyment by the strongly anti-Catholic Thomas (later Bishop) Morton.