The poems of John Donne
By: from the text of the edition of 1633 revised by James Russell Lowell. With the various readings of the other editions of the seventeenth century, and with a preface, and introduction, and notes by Charles Eliot Norton ...
Publisher: The Grolier Club
Published: 1895
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Printing; Specimens; De Vinne Press
Notes: Edition of 380 copies on hand-made paper, 3 copies on vellum.

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Typescript letter signed from Norton to Mark Harvey Liddell (2 May 1905), concerning the edition, laid in (removed to Autograph File, N).

One of the three copies printed on vellum.

Bound in two volumes in elaborate gilt art nouveau brown morocco bindings with red leather doublures by Charles Morrell for Scribner's; together in single modern brown cloth slipcase.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Miscellaneous poems (songs and sonnets) Elegies. Epithalamions, or marriage songs. Satires. Epigrams. The progress of the soul. Notes.; title: v. 2. Letters to several personages. Funeral elegies. Divine poems. Elegies upon the author. Notes.