The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert, and Dr. Robert Sanderson...to which are added, the Autographs of those eminent men, now first collected; an Index and Illustrative Notes.
London: [Printed at the Shakespeare Press for] John Major, Fleet-Street, Adjoining Serjeant's-Inn, 1825.
Price: $900.00
About the item
First Major edition. Frontispiece. Illustrated with 11 copperplates tipped in and 52 woodcuts. xviii, 503, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo (7-7/8 x 5 inches). Bound in full contemporary green morocco, spine ornately gilt, boards tooled in gilt with floral border and six ruled fillets with scrollwork ornaments at corners, central field tooled in blind, green moire endpapers, a.e.g. Bookplates of Maurice Glyn and Eric S. Quayle (famous book collector). Faintest traces of rubbing at extremities. Fine. Coigney p. 387-88.
Item #256612
The large paper edition with the plates mounted on Japan paper.
