DONNE, John. LXXX Sermons Preached by that Learned and Reverend Divine, London: Printed for Richard Royston & Richard Marriot, 1640. 2°, additional engraved architectural title by M. Merian incorporating portrait of the author, woodcut ornament on other title, head-pieces and initials (final leaf of table torn at margin, repaired and stained, a few inconspicuous ink spots on engraved title, a few spots and very small rustholes), 18th-century half calf, spine gilt in compartments (rubbed, joints splits at foot, foot of spine eroded), armorial bookplate of J. Maitland Thomson, some later annotation and underlining in orange pencil. FIRST EDITION, WITH ENGRAVED TITLE IN THE RARE FIRST STATE. Keynes 29: "In most copies of the book is found a later state of the engraving"; Lowndes II, p. 660 [treating this and the next work as vols. I and II of a 3-vol. work]; STC 7038.

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DONNE, John. LXXX Sermons Preached by that Learned and Reverend Divine, London: Printed for Richard Royston & Richard Marriot, 1640. 2°, additional engraved architectural title by M. Merian incorporating portrait of the author, woodcut ornament on other title, head-pieces and initials (final leaf of table torn at margin, repaired and stained, a few inconspicuous ink spots on engraved title, a few spots and very small rustholes), 18th-century half calf, spine gilt in compartments (rubbed, joints splits at foot, foot of spine eroded), armorial bookplate of J. Maitland Thomson, some later annotation and underlining in orange pencil. FIRST EDITION, WITH ENGRAVED TITLE IN THE RARE FIRST STATE. Keynes 29: "In most copies of the book is found a later state of the engraving"; Lowndes II, p. 660 [treating this and the next work as vols. I and II of a 3-vol. work]; STC 7038.

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DONNE, John. LXXX Sermons Preached by that Learned and Reverend Divine, London: Printed for Richard Royston & Richard Marriot, 1640. 2°, additional engraved architectural title by M. Merian incorporating portrait of the author, woodcut ornament on other title, head-pieces and initials (final leaf of table torn at margin, repaired and stained, a few inconspicuous ink spots on engraved title, a few spots and very small rustholes), 18th-century half calf, spine gilt in compartments (rubbed, joints splits at foot, foot of spine eroded), armorial bookplate of J. Maitland Thomson, some later annotation and underlining in orange pencil. FIRST EDITION, WITH ENGRAVED TITLE IN THE RARE FIRST STATE. Keynes 29: "In most copies of the book is found a later state of the engraving"; Lowndes II, p. 660 [treating this and the next work as vols. I and II of a 3-vol. work]; STC 7038.

DONNE, John. Fifty Sermons, Preached by that Learned and Reverend Divine ... The Second Volume, London: Printed by James Flesher for M. F. J. Marriot & R. Royston, 1649. 2°, woodcut device on title, head-pieces and initials (a few spots), uniformly-bound with the above work in 18th-century half calf, spine gilt in compartments (rubbed, joints split at head and foot), armorial bookplate of J. Maitland Thomson, a few leaves with annotation as above. Keynes 30: "The Fifty Sermons is a considerably scarcer book than the LXXX Sermons; Wing D1862. (2)

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