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 ...
Contributors: Donne, John, 1604-1662.
Series: 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
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Suicide -- Religious aspects -- Early works to 1800.; Suicide -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: 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 tranliterated 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.

Reproduction of original in Union Theological Seminary Library, New York.

Wing D1859

Keynes, G. Bibl. of John Donne 48

McAlpin Coll. II 560

Available electronically as part of Early English books online.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1971. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 378:21)