Donne (John) LXXX sermons preached by that learned and reverend divine, engraved additional architectural title with an oval portrait of Donne at its centre (second state), woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, lacking initial and final blanks, Aa5 outer margin torn with loss of a few printed side-notes, some water-staining, last few index ff. stained, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, spine in compartments with red morocco label, [STC 7038; Grolier/Donne 62; Grolier/Wither to Prior 293; Keynes, Donne, 29], folio, printed [by Miles Flesher] for Richard Royston, in Ivie-lane, and Richard Marriot in S. Dunstans Church-yard in Fleetstreet, 1640. ⁂ First edition of the first folio collection of Donne's sermons. The prefatory essay is the first printing of Izaak Walton's classic Life of Donne.
Donne (John) LXXX sermons preached by that learned and reverend divine, engraved additional architectural title with an oval portrait of Donne at its centre (second state), woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, lacking initial and final blanks, Aa5 outer margin torn with loss of a few printed side-notes, some water-staining, last few index ff. stained, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, spine in compartments with red morocco label, [STC 7038; Grolier/Donne 62; Grolier/Wither to Prior 293; Keynes, Donne, 29], folio, printed [by Miles Flesher] for Richard Royston, in Ivie-lane, and Richard Marriot in S. Dunstans Church-yard in Fleetstreet, 1640. ⁂ First edition of the first folio collection of Donne's sermons. The prefatory essay is the first printing of Izaak Walton's classic Life of Donne.
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