Oct 12, 2023 - Sale 2648

Sale 2648 - Lot 55

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
Donne, John (1572-1631)
Poems, &c. With Elegies on the Author's Death

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

Octavo, fifth edition with five new poems appearing in print for the first time, including To His Mistress Going to Bed; the most complete collection of Donne's poems published in the 17th century; this copy with first and last blank present (final blank somewhat tattered, with loss of bottom margin and corners; bound in later half calf, rubbed; some spotting and toning to contents, a few headlines trimmed closely; 6 3/8 x 4 in.

Wing D-1871; Keynes Donne 84; ESTC R32770.

Ex libris Christopher Clark Geest (1936-2023)