[DONNE, JOHN]. Poems, &c. With Elegies on the Author's Death. To which are added, Divers Copies under his own hand, never before printed. [London:] In the Savoy, Printed by T.N. [Thomas Newcomb] for Henry Herringman, at the sign of the Anchor, in the lower-walk of the New-Exchange, 1669.
FIFTH EDITION. Leather-bound; hardcover; octavo (17.5 x 10.5 x 3.5 cm); pp. [8], 414. Some errors in pagination. English text. Handsomely rebound in period-style panelled calf, morocco title plate to spine lettered in gilt, head-pieces, decorative initial. Condition: VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Binding tight and secure, the covers very well-preserved. Three preliminary leaves neatly repaired at the inner-gutter. The textblock lightly toned with some spotting in places, though not affecting the legibility of the text. Scarce.
⁂ The rare fifth edition with five newly-printed poems. "Of the seventeenth-century editions... that of 1669 is the most complete" (Keynes, p.151). [Keynes, 84; Wing, D1871].
