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Donne, John (1572-1631) Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes, Characters [bound with] Essayes in Divinity.
London: Printed by T.N. [Thomas Newcomb] for Humphrey Moseley, 1652 [i.e. 1653] [and] London: Printed by T.M. for Richard Marriot, 1651.
Two 12mo volumes bound together, first title page printed within border of type ornaments, final two blanks integral and present [L3 & L4], C10 with small rust hole; Essayes in Divinity with dedication to Sir Henry Vane cancelled [A3-A7]; with Humphrey Moseley's eight page catalogue bound after second volume; tear (paper flaw?) with loss to sidenotes of on E1 (page 73/74), H11 & H12 not completely opened by the binder's knife at the fore-edge; bound in full contemporary English blind-ruled sheepskin with original paper label, beautifully preserved and unsophisticated; the Sheppard copy with silhouetted sheep stamp and the number 30 on ffep; ex libris Richard Jennings; Apsley Cherry-Garrard; the Pirie copy, with bookplate, purchased by Pirie from Quaritch in the early 1970s; 5 3/4 x 3 1/4 in.
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