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DONNE, John (1573-1631). Poems by J. D. with Elegies on the Authors Death. London: M[iles] F[letcher] for John Marriot, 1633.
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DONNE, John (1573-1631). Poems by J. D. with Elegies on the Authors Death. London: M[iles] F[letcher] for John Marriot, 1633.
4o (177 x 133 mm). Three woodcut six-line initials. (Trimmed closely shaving ornamental line at top and touching pagination in a few places, light marginal dampstaining to title and at beginning.) 19th-century blind-tooled calf, gilt-lettered on spine (upper cover detached, staining to lower edge).
FIRST EDITION of the principal collection of Donne's poetical works, issued two years after his death. The volume is also notable for containing the first appearance of several celebrated elegies on Donne, that by Izaak Walton ("Is Donne, great Donne deceas'd?..."), and Thomas Carew's famous elegy commencing "Can we not force from widdowed Poetry Now thou art dead (Great Donne) one Elegie To crowne thy Hearse?..." which concludes with the famous epitaph "Here lies a King, that rul'd as he thought fit The universal monarchy of wit..." This copy with sheet Nn1r in its earlier uncorrected state (running head omitted to accommodate 35 lines of verse). Grolier Donne, 81; Grolier English, 25; Hayward 54; Keynes 78; STC 7054.
[Bound with:]
DONNE, John. Juvenilia: or Certaine Paradoxes, and Problemes. London: Printed by E.P. for Henry Seyle, 1633.
4o. Woodcut printer's device on title. With first blank (a few running title trimmed).
FIRST EDITION, containing 11 of Donne's paradoxes and 10 of his problems, brief essays, "nothings," as Donne termed them, which "carry with them a confession of their lightness." They were composed, wrote the author in a letter to Henry Wotton, "rather to deceave tyme then her daughter truth." The collection, expanded in later editions, is usually bound with the Poems of the same year. In this copy F1v and have the brief printer's license added (Keynes records copies with printing and blank, either and neither licenses present.) Grolier Donne 26; Keynes 43; STC 7043.
4o (177 x 133 mm). Three woodcut six-line initials. (Trimmed closely shaving ornamental line at top and touching pagination in a few places, light marginal dampstaining to title and at beginning.) 19th-century blind-tooled calf, gilt-lettered on spine (upper cover detached, staining to lower edge).
FIRST EDITION of the principal collection of Donne's poetical works, issued two years after his death. The volume is also notable for containing the first appearance of several celebrated elegies on Donne, that by Izaak Walton ("Is Donne, great Donne deceas'd?..."), and Thomas Carew's famous elegy commencing "Can we not force from widdowed Poetry Now thou art dead (Great Donne) one Elegie To crowne thy Hearse?..." which concludes with the famous epitaph "Here lies a King, that rul'd as he thought fit The universal monarchy of wit..." This copy with sheet Nn1r in its earlier uncorrected state (running head omitted to accommodate 35 lines of verse). Grolier Donne, 81; Grolier English, 25; Hayward 54; Keynes 78; STC 7054.
[Bound with:]
DONNE, John. Juvenilia: or Certaine Paradoxes, and Problemes. London: Printed by E.P. for Henry Seyle, 1633.
4o. Woodcut printer's device on title. With first blank (a few running title trimmed).
FIRST EDITION, containing 11 of Donne's paradoxes and 10 of his problems, brief essays, "nothings," as Donne termed them, which "carry with them a confession of their lightness." They were composed, wrote the author in a letter to Henry Wotton, "rather to deceave tyme then her daughter truth." The collection, expanded in later editions, is usually bound with the Poems of the same year. In this copy F1v and have the brief printer's license added (Keynes records copies with printing and blank, either and neither licenses present.) Grolier Donne 26; Keynes 43; STC 7043.