[Rarebooks] FS - John Donne 1st collected poetical works

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*DONNE, John / J. W. [i.e., Izaak Walton]. /THE POETICAL WORKS OF DR. 
JOHN DONNE, DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S, LONDON. IN THREE VOLUMES. WITH THE LIFE 
OF THE AUTHOR/.* Complete three volume set, bound in contemporary full 
leather. At the Apollo Press, Edinburgh. 1779. 1st edition, 16mo.

The first collected edition of Donne's poetry, these three volumes being 
published as volumes 23 to 25 of Bell's "The Poets of Great Britain". 
The "Life of Dr. Donne" is signed J.W., i.e., Izaak Walton. Each volume 
has an extra engraved title page, the imprint at the bottom of which 
reads: "Printed for John Bell, near Exeter Exchange, Strand, London, 
Sept. 24th, 1779." The engraved frontispiece of Donne, in volume I, is 
dated 1778, as is the engraved title page in volume II. The colophon at 
the end of volume I reads: "From the Apollo Press, for the Martins, July 
29, 1779"; for volume II the same except the date is August 5, 1779, and 
the same for volume III, except the date is August 12, 1779. Pagination: 
volume I, pp. cvi, [107] - 165, [two blanks]; volume II, pp. [5], 6 - 
168, [two blanks]; volume II, pp. [4], 5 - 192, [two blanks]. Early 
armorial bookplate of "Castehill" (/In Discrimine Salus/) on inside 
front board of each volume. Volume I contains Walton's biography of 
Donne (written in 1640), and the satires and epithalamions; volume II 
contains the songs, sonnets, divine poems, and epigrams; volume III 
contains the elegies, funeral elegies, letters &c. All volumes show 
shelf wear. The edges of the boards are rubbed, and the gilt lettering 
to the first two volumes is mostly absent. The hinges are tight, and the 
contents are clean, with bright pages and very little foxing. Altogether 
quite a good set of a very scarce item.

Price: $2,250.00.

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