Fine Books and Manuscripts
Fine Books and Manuscripts
From the Library of Clayre and Jay Michael Haft
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December 16, 07:15 PM GMT
Estimate
1,200 - 1,800 USD
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From the Library of Clayre and Jay Michael Haft
Donne, John
Six Sermons Upon Severall Occasions, Preached Before The King, And Elsewhere. Cambridge: Printed by Printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel] to be sold by Nicholas Fussell & Humphrey Mosley in London, 1634
4to (183 x 145 mm). Title-page printed within typographical ornament border, lacking the first leaf blank (which contains only a woodcut ornament), with divisional titles; C2 with internal tear crossing text, rust-holes on E1 and V2 causing loss of a few letters, paper flaw on x1 costing a few letters, intermittent pale marginal staining. Modern quarter calf preserving 18th-century marbled boards.
First edition.
REFERENCE:
STC 7056; Keynes/Donne 27; ESTC S109990
PROVENANCE:
Richard Cumpton (1806 inscription on verso of first section title) — Rev. Mr. Bowles (18th-century armorial bookplate) – Bristol Education Society (bookplate dated 1790)