Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 86

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
Donne, John (1571-1631)
Poems, &c. with Elegies on the Author's Death. To which is added Divers Copies under his own Hand, Never before Printed.

London: T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, 1669.



Octavo, fifth edition; lacking first and last blanks, title page damaged and professionally mended (small hole repaired); bound in full modern navy morocco, spine lettered in gilt, all edges gilt; with numerous neat ink manuscript annotations throughout corresponding to the 1929 Nonesuch edition of Donne edited by John Hayward, possibly Hayward's copy; 6 1/8 x 4 in.

Wing D-1871; Keynes 84.

This edition includes five hitherto unpublished poems.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.