Fine Books and Manuscripts

Fine Books and Manuscripts

From the Library of Clayre and Jay Michael Haft

Donne, John | First editions of his Six Sermons

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December 16, 07:15 PM GMT

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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)

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