DONNE, John. Biathanatos; A Declaration of that paradoxe or thesis that self-homicide is not so naturally sin, that it may never be otherwise, London: for Humphrey Moseley, 1648, small 4°, FIRST EDITION, second issue, title in red and black (lacking front blank, title rather soiled), late 19th-century black half morocco (rubbed), ownership inscription of P. Portlock to title, armorial bookplate of Robert, Marquis of Crewe. [Keynes Donne 48: "the earliest of Donne's controversial writings. His neurotic temperament had for many years been fascinated by the thought of suicide"; Wing D1859]