Biathanatos
Subtitle: a declaration of that paradoxe or thesis that self-homicide is not so naturally sin, that it may never be otherwise : wherein the nature, and the extent of all those lawes, which seeme to be violated by this act, are diligently surveyed
By: written by John Donne ...
Series: Early English books online; Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 378:21
Publisher: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his shop ...
Published: 1648
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Suicide; Religious aspects; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Declaration of that paradoxe or thesis that self-homicide is not so naturally sin.; Declaration of that paradoxe or thesis that self-homicide is not so naturally sin
Notes: Title transliterated from Greek.

Edited by the author's son, John Donne, who signed "The epistle dedicatory."

Consists of the sheets (except sig. S, p. 137-144) of the original undated edition, published (probably in 1646) with t.p.: Biathanatos : a declaration of that paradoxe, or thesis, that self-homicide is not so naturally sinne, that it may never be otherwise ... / written by Iohn Donne ... ; published by authoritie. London : Printed by J. Dawson. Cf. Donne, J. Biathanatos, 1930, p. 71-77.

"Written in 1608, and published, contrary to Donne's command, by his son"--Grolier. Wither to Prior, v. 1, p. 238.

Marginal notes.

Wing D1859

Keynes, G. Bibl. of John Donne 48

McAlpin Coll. II 560