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DONNE, John (1572-1631). Juvenilia: or certaine Paradoxes, and Problemes. London: by E[lizabeth] P[urslowe] for Henry Seyle, 1633.
4o (188 x 138mm). Woodcut printer's device (McKerrow 311), woodcut initial capitals, woodcut and typographical head- and tail-pieces, with preliminary blank A1 (small, light dampstain at extreme top edges, small paper flaw in upper blank margin of title). Red morocco gilt, spine gilt, top edge gilt. (rebacked, original spine preserved). Provenance: John Clawson (bookplate) -- Winston H. Hagen (bookplate), sold Anderson Galleries, New York, 13 May 1918, lot 362 -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 22 January 1970.
FIRST EDITION, with the printer's licences on F1v and H4v. The Juvenilia contains 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," and due to their secular and at times vulgar character, were not printed during the author's lifetime. In 1652 Donne's son issued an expanded, authorized edition. Grolier Donne 26; Grolier Wither to Prior 284; Keynes 43; STC 7043.
4o (188 x 138mm). Woodcut printer's device (McKerrow 311), woodcut initial capitals, woodcut and typographical head- and tail-pieces, with preliminary blank A1 (small, light dampstain at extreme top edges, small paper flaw in upper blank margin of title). Red morocco gilt, spine gilt, top edge gilt. (rebacked, original spine preserved). Provenance: John Clawson (bookplate) -- Winston H. Hagen (bookplate), sold Anderson Galleries, New York, 13 May 1918, lot 362 -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 22 January 1970.
FIRST EDITION, with the printer's licences on F1v and H4v. The Juvenilia contains 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," and due to their secular and at times vulgar character, were not printed during the author's lifetime. In 1652 Donne's son issued an expanded, authorized edition. Grolier Donne 26; Grolier Wither to Prior 284; Keynes 43; STC 7043.