Oct 13, 2022 - Sale 2617

Sale 2617 - Lot 189

Price Realized: $ 1,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Donne, John (1572-1631)
Fifty Sermons.

London: Printed by James Flesher M.F. [Miles Flesher], J. Marriot, and R. Royston, 1649.

Folio, first edition, woodcut printer's device to title, bound in excellent full contemporary English calf, paper label to spine, the Pirie copy with bookplate, ex libris Sheppard (stamp with silhouette of a lamb within an arch of vine stems and shelfmark "2"), and bookplate of Charles Whibley inside front board, 13 x 8 1/2 in.

Wing D-1862; ESTC 532764; Grolier Donne 64 (the present copy); Keynes 30.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.