,:.-:,»/,.'i;,;-l. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES urn . /on*** LIBRARY Bibliography of the Works of DR JOHN DONNE Dean of St Paul's by Geoffrey Keynes CAMBRIDGE: Printed for the TZaskerville Qlub and sold by Bernard Quaritch, London, W. 1914 K C I 4 THE BASKERVILLE CLUB F. J. H. Jenkinson, H. G. Aldis T. D. Barlow A. T. Bartholomew, Secretary F. G. M. Beck J. B. Bilderbeck F. K. Bliss J. Charrington J- Clay A. F. Cole A. Esdaile W. M. Fletcher M. D. Forbes S. Gaselee E. Ph. Goldschmidt C. A. Gordon Edmund Gosse W. W. Greg Henry Jackson President M. R. James C. H. Jenkinson G. L. Keynes J. M. Keynes W. R. M. Lamb N. M c Lean G. P. Mander H. F. Moule A. G. W. Murray H. B. Noble J. W. Reynolds C. Sayle R. S. Straus A. A. Tilley T. A. Walker C. Whibley P. W. Wood C. N. S. Woolf JOHN DONNE He was of Jiature moderately tall ; of a Jlraight and equally proportioned body, to which all his words and actions gave an unexprefsible addition of comelinefse. His ajpect was cheerfully and fuch as gave a filent teffmony of a cleere knowing Joule, and of a conjcience at peace with it Jelfe. His melting eye fhewed he had a Joft heart, full of noble pity, of too brave a fpirit to offer injuries, and too much a Chrijlian, not to pardon them in others. His fancie was un-imitable high, equalled by his great wit, both being made ujefull by a commanding judgement. His mind was liberall, and unwearied in the Jearch of know- ledge, with which his vigorous Joule is now JatiJJied, and employed in a continuall praije oj that God that firfl breathed it into his active body, which once was a Temple of the holy Ghost, and is now become a Jmall quantity of Chrijlian duff But I shall fee it re-inanimated. IZAAK WALTON 1640 (NO UNI. I £91 Z^nis wasfory-outh, StrengthMvth , and lurt thalTTme SfffoTt count tnctr po^acn -dacl but t'was not thine . jliinc was tin- later t'earcJt So mucn re find Jy-om-youtns Drojje, lllirtn, cr wit; a/ thjrpure mind Jnoiwht (fine tne jmaif/s) notnina but rne J'rtufe. Of thy Qreator* in tljojd fast, feTt *Dayes. iVttncs t/i'if Boo*?, (this £mbfemc) whicn beams ■ r i" r r • r r*- e ^ & iVitn -{ovci but enaer* with SujneSiZ? Teares for iins- Will ': Afarf/iall Jculy 'tit . "iT.: WA J km n . Oc n nc bibliography of the Works of DR JOHN DONNE IDean of St TauVs by Qeoffrey Keynes QAM C BT{I C DGE : Printed for the ISaskerville Qlub and sold by Bernard Quaritch, London, W. 1914 -. — GENERAL PREFACE No complete bibliography of Donne's works has previously been undertaken, and I feel confident that this book will be found of use by students of Donne's writings and by collectors of the original editions. I hope it may also be of value to all those who take more than a casual interest in Donne, and to bibliographers in general. The material that I have used has been drawn mainly from the following sources : the chief public libraries in England and Scotland ; the college libraries in Cambridge and Oxford ; some of the cathedral libraries ; and the private collections of members of the Baskerville Club. In the case of some rare books I have also recorded copies in other private collections in England and America, and a few from sale catalogues. I have myself seen almost all the copies recorded as having been found in London, Cambridge, and Oxford. The two books, which have been of greater assistance to me than any others, are Mr Edmund Gosse's Life and Letters of John Donne and Professor Grierson's edition of Donne's poems ; I am also indebted to these authors for encouragement and help. I wish to record here my gratitude to all those Librarians whose courtesy has rendered available to me so much of the material upon which this bibliography is founded ; also to Miss Henrietta C. Bartlett of New York for her kindness in examining on my behalf those editions of Donne's works which are in the libraries of Mr Beverly Chew and Mr W. A. White. The proof sheets have been read by Mr Francis Jenkinson, Mr Charles Sayle, Mr A. T. Bartholomew, Mr Cosmo Gordon, and Mr H. G. Aldis, and I am deeply grateful to these gentlemen for the numerous and useful suggestions which they have made. I am indebted to Miss E. M. Spearing for some important corrections in the section dealing with the Sermons. The system of bibliographical description that I have used is, I hope, clear enough to need no explanation. GEOFFREY KEYNES London May, 1 9 14. ix CONTENTS PROSE WORKS Pseudo-martyr Conclave Ignati Sermons Devotions . Juvenilia Biathanatos Essays in Divinity Letters POETICAL WORKS Occasional Pieces . First and Second Anniversaries Collected Poems . WALTON'S LIFE OF DONNE BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM APPENDICES I. Works by John Donne, D.C.L. II. Works by John Done III. Books from Donne's library IV. A book dedicated to Donne V. Iconography .... List of Printers and Publishers, 1607 — 17 19 Index PAGE I 7 17 39 47 59 67 7 1 89 93 103 127 !35 i45 151 i54 156 l S7 161 162 ILLUSTRATIONS REPRODUCTIONS OF ENGRAVINGS 1. Donne at the age of 18 (frontispiece to Poems, 1635) . 2. Donne in his shroud (frontispiece to Death's Due/I, 1632) 3. Donne at the age of 42 (frontispiece to 80 Sermons, 1640) 4. Donne's effigy (frontispiece to Devotions, 1 634) . REPRODUCTIONS OF TITLE-PAGES 5. Pseudo-martyr, 1610 6. Conclave Ignati, 161 1, 12° 7. Conclave Ignati, 161 1, 4 8. Death's Duell, 1632 9. Six Sermons, 1634. 10. Devotions, 1624 11. Juvenilia, 1633 12. Biathanatos, 1644 . 13. An Anatomy of the World, 161 1 14. The First Anniversary, 1625 15. The Second Anniversary, 1625 16. Walton's Life of Donne, 1658 Frontispiece To face p. 2 J To face p. 33 To face p. 45 All the plates and blocks for the illustrations have been prepared by Messrs Emery Walker, Ltd., with the exception of the blocks for nos. 13-15 above, for which the Baskerville Club is indebted to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press. XI ABBREVIATIONS Alford : The Works of John Donne. With a memoir of his life. By Henry Alford. London, 1839. 6 vols. [no. 33.] Chambers : Poems of John Donne. Edited by E. K. Chambers. London, 1896. 2 vols. [no. 100.] Gosse : The Life and Letters of John Donne. By Edmund Gosse. London, 1899. 2 vols. [no. 126.] Grierson : The Poems of John Donne. Edited by H. J. C. Grierson. Oxford, 1 912. 2 vols. [no. 105.] ALE : Advocates' Library, Edinburgh. BLO : Bodleian Library, Oxford. BM : British Museum. ULC: University Library, Cambridge. Xll PSEUDO-MARTYR J. D. PSEUDO-MARTYR Bibliographical Preface The Pseudo-martyr belongs to the year 1609, and was the second con- troversial work composed by Donne, though it was the first to be printed. According to Walton {Life, 1658, pp. 37 — 38) it was written by Donne at the command of King James, and was completed within six weeks. Mr Gosse points out, however, that this story is probably untrue. In his dedication Donne writes — " Of my boldnesse in this addresse, I most humbly beseech your Maiestie, to admit this excuse, that having observed, how much your Maiestie had vouchsafed to descend to a conversation with your Subiects, by way of your Bookes, I also conceiv'd an ambition, of ascending to your presence, by the same way " ; it is unlikely that he would have written in this manner, had the book been composed expressly at the King's command. Further, a passage in the Advertisement shews that the Table of the Chapters had been in circulation for a considerable period before the completion of the book, and though the last two chapters mentioned in it were never written, Donne still allowed their headings to appear in the Table. "I have abstained," he writes, "from handling the two last Chapters upon divers reasons ; whereof one is, that these Heads having beene caried about, many moneths, and thereby quarrelled by some, and desired by others, I was willing to give the Booke a hasty dispatch, that it might cost no man much time, either in expecting before it came, or in reading, when it was come. But a more principall reason was, that since the two last Chapters depend upon one another, and have a mutuall Relation, I was not 1 — 2 4 bibliography of J ' ohn TDonne willing to undertake one, till I might persevere through both. And from the last chapter it became me to abstaine, till I might understand their purposes, who were formerly engaged in the same businesse." The greater part of the work is now chiefly of historical interest, and the book has never been reprinted ; but the Preface to the Priestes and Jesuits contains some interesting autobiographical passages. A more extended account of the book will be found in Gosse, i. 245 — 254. Donne's book was perhaps too closely reasoned and too calmly written to admit of a reply being easily framed, and none was published until 16 13 ; in that year was published a work by Thomas Fitzherbert in which a long reply to the Pseudo-martyr is to be found. This book, which is not recorded by Donne's biographers, has the following title : A Supplement to the difcuffion of M. D. Bar/owes an/were To the Iudgment of a Catholike Englishman &c. interrupted by the death of the Author F. Robert Persons of the Society of Iefus...And By the way is briefly cenfured M. John Dunnes Booke, intituled PJeudo-martyr : . .By F. T. ...Permijfu Superiorum. M.DC.XIII. The answer to Pseudo-martyr occupies pp. 86 — 1 10 (Chap. II §§ 30 — 78). The Pseudo-martyr is also referred to by John Boys, Dean of Canterbury, in his work — An expofition of all the principall fcriptures vfed in our Engli/h Liturgie. Together with a reafon why the Church did chufe the fame... London... 1 622. "I will not meddle," he writes (p. 277), "with the cobwebs of learning in the Schoole, which have more wit then Art, yet more Art then use ; nor with the distorted and idle glosses of the Canonists : he that list may burthen his memory with a shipfull of their fooleries, accuratly collected by the penner of Pseudomartyr, cap. 10." PSEVDO- MARTYR Wherein O VT O F CERTAINE Propofitions and Gradations, This Conclusion is euicted. THAT THOSE WHICH ARE of the Ro mane Religion in this Kingdome, may and ought to take the Oath of De vt. 32. 1%. But be thatjhould haue been? t/pright, whfn he waxed fatte p fpurned'mtk his beele : Yfou art fat, thou art grojfe t thou art laden withfatnejje. IO B. II. 5. But oh that Ood would {peaty and open his lips agamfl thee , that he mightjbewtbte the fecrets of-wifedome, bowfhou baft defer ucd double auording to right, 2.CHR O.28.22. lnthctinte»fhistribulatinn } dulbeyet trefpaffe more agatofltheLordpforhefacrificed vnto the gods ofDamafcw, rvbicb flagued pirn. London Printed by W. Stansby {otWaltetfturre. 1 6 I o. Title-page of no. I. bibliography of J ' ohn IDonne i PSEUDO-MARTYR. 40. 1610 Title {within double lines) : Pfeudo-martyr. Wherein out of certaine Propositions and Gradations, This Conclusion is euicted. That thofe which are of the Romane Religion in this Kingdome, may and ought to take the Oath of Allegeance. [rule] Devt. 32. 15. But he that Jliould haue beene zprigkt, when he waxed fatte, fpurned with his heele : Thou art fat, thou art groffe, thou art laden with fatnefle. Iob. 11. 5. But oh that God would fpeake and open his lips againft thee, that he might Jhew thee the fecrets of wife dome, how thou haft defer ued double according to right. 2. Chro. 28. 22. In the time of his tribulation, did he yet trefpa[)e more againft the Lord, for he facrificed vnto the gods of Damafcus, which plagued him. [rule] London Printed by W. Stansby for Walter Burre. 16 10. Collation: A 4 !f 2 B— Z Aa— Zz Aaa— Ggg 4 Hhh 2 ; 216 leaves. Contents: A I title; A2 — A3 dedication To the High and Mightie Prince lames... signed lohn Donne; A4 A Table of the Chapters; IT I — %2a An advert ifement to the Reader; ^2b errata; Bi — E2 A Preface to The Priejles and lefuits, and to their difciples in this Kingdome; E3 — Hhh2 (pp. I — 392) text. Note ; The Table of the Chapters gives the headings of fourteen chapters ; the book, however, contains only twelve of these, the last two never having been written for reasons which the author explains in the Advertisement (see my preface). The book is very carelessly printed and contains a large number of misprints in addition to those more serious ones recorded by Donne in the errata. The pagination of sheets Y and Aa is faulty ; 133, 136, 137, 140, 154 are printed 121, 124, 125, 128, 156. Copies : BM, ULC (2), BLO, ALE. Cambridge Colleges : Caius, Emmanuel, Magdalene, Queens', St John's (2), Trinity (3). Oxford Colleges : Corpus Christi, New College, St John's. Salisbury Cathedral Library. Edmund Gosse (presentation copy to Rowland Woodward with a Spanish sentence in Donne's handwriting on title-page) ; G. L. Keynes. CONCLAVE IGNATI CONCLAVE IGNATI Bibliographical Preface The Conclave Ignati or Ignatius his Conclave^ the third of Donne's controversial writings, was composed and published in 1611. Neither of the Latin editions is dated, but Mr Gosse has shewn conclusively (i. 257) from internal evidence that the work belongs to that year. It is a vigorous and amusing satire, but except in Mr Gosse's book (Joe. eit.) it has received very little notice from Donne's biographers. Two Latin editions were printed in 161 1. One of these, a duodecimo, has no imprint, and may have been printed in London or abroad ; it is extremely rare, only two copies being known to me. The other is a thin quarto, which was printed at Hanau ; this, too, is very rare and is recorded here for the first time. The first edition of the English version of the satire was also published in 1611, and three more editions were issued in 1626, 1634, and 1635. The English version was reprinted with the date 1653 with the Juvenilia in the volume of 1652, and the Latin version was reprinted in 1680 ; since that date Donne's satire has not been reprinted in either form. The earlier issues of the Conclave Ignati were anonymous, but in the three English editions issued after Donne's death his name appears on the title-page; it is omitted, however, from the Latin reprint of 1680. Donne himself, as he implies in the preface, regarded the book as too undignified a production to be publicly acknowledged, but doubtless the authorship was well known to his contemporaries. In the volume of 1652 the editor, John Donne the younger, describes the Ignatius his Conclave on the general title-page as " lately found among his [the author's] own Papers," and appears to ignore the previous issues ; but this was evidently only for purposes of sale. j. d. 2 Qonclaue fgnati: — ~ — — »— — — — ^> Siuc EIVS INNV- PERIS INFERNI COMITIIS Jnthronifatio* Vbi varia De Iefuitarum Indole, De notio inferno creando, Be Eccle/ia Lunatic a injlituend&y perSatyram congeftafunc. dAccefsk & Apologia-* pro lefuitis. Omnia lyuobiis AngelU Adnerfartis^ quiCvrififtorio Papali 7 & Cot- kgio Sorbonae praefi* dentjdedicata. Title-page of no. z. Conclave Ignati 1 1 CONCLAVE IGNATI. I2 o. [leu] Title : [rule] Conclaue Ignati : [rule] Siue eius in nuperis inferni comitiis Inthronifatio. Vbi varia De Iefuitarum Indole, De nouo inferno creando, De Ecclefia Lunatica inftituenda, per Satyram congefta funt. Accefsit & Apologia pro Iefuitis. Omnia Duobus Angelis Aduerfariis, qui Confiftorio Papali, £s? Collegio Sorbonae praefident, dedicata. Collation : A — D 12 E 6 ; 54 leaves. Contents : Ai title; A2 — A3 Typographies Lectori; A4 — E2 (pp. 1 — 94) text, addressed : Angelis tutelaribus, Confijlorio Papali, & Collegio Sorbona? Prcefidentibus; E3 — Y.$a Apologia pro Iefuitis; Y,$b errata, headed: Lectori. Iefuitarum Dcemonem. credo operce infediffe : unde alias tot errata ? Nojira autem hie corrigimus : fed quando Iefuitte fua?; E6 blank. Note : The ornament used on A4 and E3 of this book is the same as is found on the title-page and other leaves of no. 3, which was probably printed at Hanau (see note) ; it is possible, therefore, that the present edition was printed there, but the same ornament was also used by London printers. Copies : BM, BLO. CONCLAVE IGNATI. 4°. [161 1] Title : Conclaue Ignati : Siue eius in nuperis inferni comitiis inthronifatio. Vbi varia De Iefuitarum Indole, De nouo inferno creando, De Ecclefia Lunatica inftitueda, per Satyram congefta funt. AccefTit et apologia pro Iefuitis. Omnia Duobus Angelis Aduerfariis, qui Confiftorio Papali, & Collegio Sorbonae praefident, dedicata. [ornament] Collation : A — D 4 E 2 ; 18 leaves. Contents: Ai (pp. 1 — 2) title; A2 (pp. 3 — 4) Typographic Lectori; A3 — Elb (pp. 5 — 34) text; Eib — Ela (pp. 34 — 35) Apologia pro Iefuitis (errata, headed Lectori, etc., at bottom of E2tf) ; E2^ blank. 12 bibliography of J ' ohn TDonne Note : This edition does not seem to have been noticed elsewhere. Each of the only two copies known to me is bound up with other tracts which were printed at Hanau, apud Thomam Fillerianum 1 , and it is probable, for typographical reasons, that this edition of the Conclave Ignati was issued from the same press. Copies : ULC (2, Acton collection). 4 IGNATIUS HIS CONCLAVE. 12°. 161 1 Title {within single line) : Ignatius his Conclaue : or His Inthronifation in a late Election in Hell : Wherein many things are mingled by way of Satyr ; Concerning The Difpofition of Iefuits, The Creation of a new Hell, The eftablifhing of a Church in the Moone. There is alfo added an Apology for Iefuites. All dedicated to the two Aduerfary Angels, which are Protectors of the Papall Confiftory, and of the Colledge of Sorbon. Tranflated out of Latine. London, Printed by N. O. for Richard More, and are to be fold at his mop in S. Dunftones Church-yard. 161 1. Collation: A — G 12 ; 84 leaves. Contents: Ai blank; A2 title; A3 — A5 The printer to the Reader; A6 — G5# (pp. 1 — 143) text; G5^ blank; G6 — G7 An Apology for Iefuites; GSa errata; GSb—Gi2 blank. Note: Printed by Nicholas Okes (1606 — c. 1635). Copies: BM, ULC. 5 IGNATIUS HIS CONCLAVE. 12°. 161 1 Title (within ornamental border) : Ignatius his Conclaue : or His Inthronifa- tion in a late Election in Hell : Wherein many things are mingled by way of Satyr ; Concerning The Difpofition of fuits, The Creation of a new Hell, The eftablifhing of a Church in the Moone. 1 This imprint may possibly be fictitious, but there is good evidence for accepting it as genuine. CONCLAVE IGNATI. Siuc EIVS IN NVPERIS INFERNI COMITIIS INTHRONISATIO. Vhi *vari blank ; G7 — G8 An Apology for Iefuites ; G9 — Gi2 blank. Note: Printed by Miles Fletcher (161 1 — 1664). Copies: BM, ULC. King's College, Cambridge. 1 I have seen an unbound copy of no. 4, in which the title-page was clearly not a cancel. Qonclave Ignati 15 IGNATIUS HIS CONCLAVE. 120. 1634 Title {within single line) : Ignatius his Conclave : or, His Inthronifation in a late Election in Hell : Wherin many things are mingled by way of Satyr. Concerning The Difpofition of Iefuites, The Creation of a new Hell, The eftablifhing of a Church in the Moone. There is alfo added an Apology for Iefuites. All dedicated to the two adverfary Angels, which are protectors of the Papall Confiftory, and of the Colledge of Sorbon. By Iohn Donne, Doctor of Divinitie, and late Deane of Saint Pauls, [rule] London, Printed for Iohn Marriott, and are to be fold by W. Sheares at the Harrow in Britains Burfle. 1634. Collation: A — F 12 ; 72 leaves. Contents: Ai tide; A2 — A$a The printer to the Reader; A?,b blank; A4 — Fna (pp. I — 135) text; Fllb — Fl2 An Apologie for Iefuites. Copies : BM, ULC, BLO. Peterborough Cathedral Library. IGNATIUS HIS CONCLAVE. 12 . 1635 Title {within single line) : Ignatius his Conclave :...[etc. as in no. 8]. London,... 1635. Collation, Contents : As in no. 8. Note: This issue consists of the same sheets as no. 8 with the date altered on the title-page, which is, however, not a cancel. Presumably the alteration was made while the book was in the press. Copies: BLO. Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Peterborough Cathedral Library. Edmund Gosse. 1 6 bibliography of J ohn T)onne 10 IGNATIUS HIS CONCLAVE. 12°. 1653 Subtitle (within single line) : Ignatius his conclave : or, His Inthronifation in a late Election in Hell. Wherein many Things are mingled by way of satyr. Concerning The difpofition of Jefuites. The Creation of a new Hell. The eftablifhing of a Church in the Moon. There is alfo added an Apologie for Jesuites. All dedicated to the Two adverfary Angels, which are Protectors of the Papall Confiftory, and of the Colledge of Sorbon. [rule] By John Donne, Doctor of Divinity, and late Dean of Saint Pauls, [rule] Printed at London, 1653. Collation, Contents: See no. 45, Paradoxes, Problems, etc., 1 652. 11 CONCLAVE IGNATII. 8°. 1680 Title {within double lines) : Lucii Cornelii Europad Monarchia Solipsorum. Et Conclave Ignatii : sive Ejus in Nuperis Inferni Comitiis Inthronifatio. [rule] Londini, Proftat venalis apud Jacobum Collins, in Vico vulgo vocato EfTex-Street. 1680. Collation : A — O s ; 1 1 2 leaves. Contents: Al title; A2 Timoteeus Cursantius Leoni Allatio S. ; A3 — 12 (pp. I — 128) Monarchia Solipsorum ; I3 — 14 Syllabus ; I5 subtitle to Conclave Ignatii ; 16 — 17 Typographus Lectori ; 18 — O5 (pp. I — 76) Conclave Ignatii ; 06 (pp. 77 — 78) Apologia pro Jesuitis ; O7 Some Books printed for James Collins ; 08 blank. Note: This book usually occurs bound up with a later work, Papifmus Regies Poteftatis Ever/or, dated 1681, the general title-page being as follows: Papifmus Regit? Pote/iatis Ever/or. Reverendus admodum Epifcopus Lincoln. Anglice fcripfit. Robertus Grovius S.T.B. De Anglic ano Latinum fecit :...Qui- bus ab alio adjunguntur Monarchia Solipforum et Conclave Ignatii. Londini,... apud Jacobum Collins, sff Samuelem Lowndes, ...1682. Copies: BM, BLO. Salisbury Cathedral Library (2). SERMONS j. D. SERMONS Bibliographical Preface Donne had taken orders at the instigation of King James in January, 1615 ; he was appointed Dean of St Paul's in November, 1621, and in this capacity became one of the most celebrated preachers of his time. The earliest of his sermons that has survived with a date was preached on April 30, 161 5 ; his last sermon was preached before King Charles on February 25, 163 1, and was soon afterwards printed under the title of Death's duell 1 . Six of Donne's sermons were printed during his lifetime between 1622 and 1627 ; seven more, including the Death's duell, were printed soon after his death, and later, in 1640, 1649, and 1660, three folio volumes containing 1 54 sermons were issued by his son, John Donne, D.C.L. 2 These volumes included the seven posthumous sermons just mentioned, but the remaining 147, with the exception of one which had been issued anonymously in 1638, had not been printed before. Other sermons have survived in MS. 3 but have not yet been printed. Those sermons which were printed by Donne during his lifetime were also collected by him in successive volumes containing Three Sermons (1623), Foure Sermons (1625), and Five Sermons 1 This is stated by Walton to have been preached on the first Sunday in Lent. Miss E. M. Spearing has pointed out to me that this fell on Feb. 25 in 163^, and not, as stated by Mr Gosse, on Feb. 12. 2 See pp. 14.6 — 14.7 of present work. 3 A collection, which was in the library of the late Prof. Dowden, is now in the possession of a member of the Baskerville Club, Mr Wilfred Merton. 3—2 20 bibliography of "Jo hi 'Donne (1626) ; these volumes were not reprints in the ordinary sense, but consisted of the sheets of the individual sermons as first issued bound up together, with a general title-page substituted for the title-page of the first sermon. The sermons also occur bound up together by their original owners ; one such volume in the library of Pembroke College, Cambridge, containing all the sermons issued in quarto up to 1634, was evidently collected by Izaak Walton, whose autograph appears in it in two places 1 . The great majority of the sermons were reprinted by Alford in his edition of 1839. The literary value of Donne's sermons, particularly in relation v to his poetry, has only recently been fully realised 2 ; after he had taken orders he wrote but few poems, and his sermons consequently became his chief means of expression. According to Walton he did not read his sermons from the pulpit, but committed them to memory and wrote them out afterwards in a form ready for publication 3 . An idea of the manner in which he recast his sermons may be gained by comparing the text of the sermon printed by Milbourne in 1638 from an unauthorised copy with that of the same sermon as it was printed in the folio of 1660. Walton's description of Donne's delivery of the first sermon, which he preached before the King, must be accepted as a true estimate of his great power as a preacher. " Preaching the word so," Walton writes, " as shewed his own heart was possest with those very thoughts, and joyes that he laboured to distil into others. A Preacher in earnest, weeping sometimes for his Auditory, sometimes with them ; alwaies preaching to himself like an Angell from a cloud, but in none ; carrying some, as St. Paul was, to Heaven in holy raptures, and inticing others by a sacred art and Courtship to amend their lives ; here picturing a vice so as to make it ugly to those that practised it ; and a vertue so, as to make it be loved even by those that lov'd it not, and all this with a most particular grace and an unexpressible addition of come- linesse." (Walton's Life of Donne, 1658, pp. 47 — 48.) 1 See nos. 26 and 27. 2 See Grierson, ii. liii and passim ; and Miss Spearing in The Modern Language Review, Jan. 191 2. 3 See also p. 146 of present work. Sermons 21 SERMON ON JUDGES, xx. 15. 40. ^22 Title {within double lines) : A fermon vpon the xv. verfse of the xx. chapter of the Booke of Iudges Wherein occafion was iuftly taken for the Publica- tion of fome Reafons, which his Sacred Maieftie had beene pleafed to giue, of thofe Directions for Preachers, which he had formerly fent forth. Preached at the Crone the 15 th - of September. 1622. By Iohn Donne, Doctor of Diuinitie and Deane of Saint Pauls, London. And now by commandement of his Maieftie publifhed, as it was then preached, [rule] London Printed by William Stansby for Thomas Iones, and are to be fold at his fhop in the Strand at the blacke Rauen, neere vnto Saint Clements Church. 1622. Collation: A — I 4 K 2 ; 38 leaves. Contents: Ai blank; A2 title; A3 — A^a dedication To the right honourable, George, Marquejfe of Buckingham ; A^b errata ; Bl — K2 (pp. I — 68) text. Note: The reference to the text given on the title-page of this book is a mistake for Judges, v. 20; this was not corrected until the third issue of the sermon (see no. 14). Not reprinted in the folios ; but it is printed by Alford, vi. 191. Copies: BM. Edmund Gosse ; G. L. Keynes. SERMON ON JUDGES, xx. 15. 40. ^22 Title (within double lines) : A fermon vpon the xv. verfe of the xx. chapter of the Booke of Iudges... London Printed by William Stansby for Thomas Iones,... 1622. Collation: A— I 4 K 2 ; 38 leaves. Contents: Ai blank; A2 title; A3 — A<\.a dedication; A^b blank; Bl — K2 (pp. I — 68) text. Note: A second issue of no. 12. The errata noted on A^b of the first issue have been corrected, but the misprint on the title-page remains as before. Copy: BLO. SERMON ON JUDGES, v. 20. 40. 1622 Title (within double lines) : A fermon vpon the xx. verfe of the v. chapter of the Booke of Iudges... 2 2 bibliography of yoh?i r Do?ine London, Printed for Thomas Jones, and are to bee fold at his Shop in the Strand, at the blacke Rauen, neere vnto Saint Clements Church. 1622. Collation: A 2 B— I 4 K-; 36 leaves. Contents: Ai title; A2 dedication; Bi — K2 (pp. 1 — 68) text. Note: In this, the third, issue of the sermon the sheets B — K are the same as in no. 13, but a new first quire of two leaves has been substituted for the original A 1 — 4. The text is now given correctly on the title-page, which also shews other minor alterations. Copies: BM. Pembroke College, Cambridge. G. L. Keynes. 15 SERMON ON ACTS, i. 8. 40. 1622 Title {within double lines) : A fermon vpon the vni. verfe of the 1. chapter of the Acts of the Apoftles. Preach'd To the Honourable Company of the Virginian Plantation. 13 . Nouemb. 1622. By lohn Donne Deane of S l . Pauls, London, [rule] London. Printed by A. Mat: for Thomas Iones and are to [be] fold at his Shop in the Strand, at the blacke Rauen, neere vnto Saint Clements Church. 1622. Collation: A — G 4 ; 28 leaves. Contents: Ai blank; A2 title; A3 dedication To the honourable company of the Virginian Plantation ; A4 — G4« (pp. 1 — 49) text (errata at bottom of G\d) ; (j\b blank. Note: Issued again in 1624 (see no. 18), but not reprinted in the folios. It is given by Alford, vi. 225. This and several of the succeeding sermons were printed by Augustin Matthewes (161 9 — 1653). Copies: BM, ULC. 16 ENC^NIA. 40. 1623 Title (within double lines) : Encaenia. The feaft of dedication. Celebrated At Lincolnes Inne, in a Sermon there vpon Afcenfion day, 1623. At the Dedication of a new Chappell there, Confecrated by the Right Reuerend Father in God, the Bifhop of London, [rule] Preached by lohn Donne, Deane of S l . Pauls, [rule] Sermons 2 3 London, Printed by Aug. Mat. for Thomas Iones, and are to bee fold at his Shop in the Strand, at the blacke Rauen, neere vnto Saint Clements Church. 1623. Collation: A 4 B— F 4 G 2 ; 26 leaves. Contents: A I title; A2 dedication To the Majlers of the Bench, and the reft of the Honourable Societie of Lincolnes Inne ; A3 The Prayer before the Sermon ; [A4 can- celled] ; Bl — Gltf (pp. I — 41) text; Gib — G2 blank. Note: On John, x. 22. Not reprinted in the folios, or by Alford. A4 has been cancelled in all the copies known to me, including those bound up in the Three Sermons, etc. Notwithstanding the fact that the catchword on A3^> corresponds with the first word on Bi«, it is evident from the sewing that the signatures A2 and A3 have not been misprinted ; presumably the cancelled leaf was a blank. Copies: BM, ULC, BLO. Cambridge Colleges : Pembroke, St John's. Merton College, Oxford. Edmund Gosse ; G. L. Keynes. THREE SERMONS. 4°- 1623 Title {within double lines) : Three fermons vpon speciall occasions, [rule] Preached by Iohn Donne Deane of S*. Pauls London, [ornament between rules] London, Printed for Thomas Iones, and are to [be] fold at his Shop in the Strand at the Blacke Rauen neere St. Clements Church. 1623. Collation: A— I 4 K 2 , A— G 4 , A— F 4 G 2 ; 38 + 28 + 26 = 92 leaves. Contents: Ai general title; A2 — K2 A fermon vpon the xv verfe of the xx chapter of the Booke of ludges, 1622 (as in no. 13) ; A I — G4 A fermon vpon the viii. verfe of the i. chapter of the Acts of the Apojlles, 1622 (as in no. 15) ; Ai — G2 Enccenia, 1 623 (as in no. 16). Note: This volume consists of nos. 13, 15, and 16, bound up together, with a general title-page as above substituted for the original Ai blank of no. 13. Copy: Trinity College, Cambridge. SERMON ON ACTS, i. 8. 4°- 1624 Title {within double lines): A fermon vpon the eighth verfe of the firft Chapter Of The Acts Of The Apoftles. Preached To the Honourable Company 24 bibliography of "John 'Donne of the Virginian Plantation, 13. Nouemb. 1622. By Iohn Donne Deane of Saint Pauls, London, [rule] London, Printed for Thomas Iones. 1 624. Collation : A — G 4 ; 28 leaves. Contents : A 1 blank ; A2 title ; A3 introductory address To the honourable companie of the Virginian Plantation ; A4 — G\.a (pp. I — 49) text ; G4^> blank. Note : A reprint of no. 15, in which the errata (noted on G^a of the first issue) have been corrected. Most of the copies known to me occur in the Foure fermons of 1625 and the Fine fermons of 1626. In four of these by an error of the printer the first page of the text and the second page of the introductory address have been transposed. In the fifth example, which occurs in Mr Edmund Gosse's copy of the Fiue fermons^ these pages are in their right positions. Copy : Pembroke College, Cambridge. 19 FIRST SERMON PREACHED TO KING CHARLES. 4°. 1625 Title (within double lines) : The firft fermon preached to King Charles, At Saint lames : 3 . April. 1625. [rule] By Iohn Donne, Deane of Saint Pauls, London, [rule] London, Printed by A. M. for Thomas Iones, and are to bee fold at his Shop at the Signe of the Blacke Rauen in the Strand. 1625. Collation : A— H 4 ; 32 leaves. Contents: Ai blank ; A2 title; A3 — H^a (pp. 1 — 59) text (errata at bottom of H40); H^b blank. Note: On Psalm xi. 3. Not reprinted in the folios, or by Alford. Copies : BM, BLO. Cambridge Colleges : Emmanuel, Pembroke, St John's, Trinity. Edmund Gosse. 20 FOURE SERMONS. 40. 1625 Title {within double lines) : Foure fermons vpon fpeciall occasions. (Viz.) 1 . A Sermon preached at Pauls CrofTe. 2. To the Honourable, the Virginia Company. 3. At the Consecration of Lincolnes Inne Chappell. 4. The first Sermon preached to K. Charles at S*. lames, 1625. Sermons 25 [rule] By Iohn: Donne. Deane of St. Pauls, London, [rule] London, Printed for Thomas Iones, and are to be fold at his Shop in the Strand at the Blacke Rauen neere Saint Clements Church. 1625. Collation : A 2 B— I 4 K 2 , A— G 4 , A— F 4 G 2 , A— H 4 ; 36 + 28 + 26 + 32 = 122 leaves. Contents : A I general title ; A2 — K2 A fermon vpon the xx verfe of the v. chapter of the Booke of Iudges, 1 622 (as in no. 14); A I — G4 A fermon vpon the eighth verfe of the firjl Chapter Of The Acts Of The Apojlles, 1624 (as in no. 18) ; Ai — G2 Enaenia, 1623 (as in no. 16); Ai — H4 The firjl fermon preached to King Charles, 1625 (as in no. 19). Note: This volume consists of nos. 14, 18, 16, and 19, bound up together, a general title-page as above having been substituted for the original title-page of no. 14. Copy: Edmund Gosse. SERMON PREACHED AT WHITEHALL, 1625. 40. 1626 Title {within double lines) : A fermon, preached to the Kings Mtie. at White- hall, 24. Febr. 1625. By Iohn Donne Deane of Saint Pauls, London, [rule] And now by his Maieftes commandment Publifhed. [rule] London, Printed for Thomas Iones, dwelling at the Blacke Rauen in the Strand. 1626. Collation: A — G 4 H 2 ; 30 leaves. Contents: Ai blank; A2 title; A3 — A4 dedication To his sacred Maiestie ; Bi — Hi (pp. 1 — 50) text (errata on Hi£) ; H2 blank. Note: On Isaiah, 1. 1. Not reprinted in the folios, or by Alford. Copies: BM, ULC. Pembroke College, Cambridge. Edmund Gosse ; G. L. Keynes. FIVE SERMONS. 40. ^26 Title (within double lines) : Fiue fermons vpon fpeciall occasions. (Viz) 1. A Sermon preached at Pauls Croffe. 2. To the Honorable the Virginia Company 3. At the Confecration of Lincolnes Inne Chappell. 4. The firft Sermon preached to K. Charles at S l . lames, 1625. 5. A Sermon preached to his Maieftie at White-hall, 24. Febr. 1625. [rule] By Iohn Donne Deane of Saint Pauls, London, [rule] J. d. 4 26 bibliography of jfohn T)onne London, Printed for Thomas Iones, and are to bee fold at the Signe of the Blacke Rauen in the Strand. 1626. Collation : [A] 1 B— I 4 K 2 , A— G 4 , A— F 4 G\ A— H\ A— G 4 H 2 ; 35 + 28 + 26 + 32 + 30 = 151 leaves. Contents: [A] general title; Bi — K.2 A fermon vpon the xx verfe of the v. chapter of the Booke of Iudges, 1622 (as in no. 14 but lacking the first quire of two leaves) ; A I — G4 A fermon vpon the eighth verfe of the firjl Chapter Of The Acts Of The Apojlles, 1 624 (as in no. 18); Ai — G2 Enaenia, 1623 (as in no. 16); Ai — H4 The firjl fermon preached to King Charles, 1625 (as in no. 19); Ai — H2 A fermon, preached to the Kings Mtie. at Whitehall, 1626 (as in no. 21). Note: This volume consists of nos. 14, 18, 16, 19, and 21, bound up together. The first quire of no. 14 has been omitted and a general title-page has been substituted. Copies: Jesus College, Cambridge. Merton College, Oxford. Edmund Gosse. 23 SERMON OF COMMEMORATION. 12°. 1627 Title (within double lines) : A fermon of commemoration of the Lady Dauers, late Wife of S r . Iohn Dauers. [rule] Preach'd at Chilfey, where fhe was lately buried. By Iohn Donne D. of S'. Pauls, Lond. 1. Iuly 1627. [rule] Together with other Commemorations of Her ; By her Sonne G. Herbert, [rule] London, Printed by I. H. for Philemon Stephens, and Chriftopher Meredith, and are to be fold at their mop at the golden Lion in Pauls Church-yard. 1627. Collation: A — H 12 I 6 ; 1 02 leaves. Contents: Ai title; A2 — A6 The prayer before the Sermon; A 7 — H7 (pp. I — 170) text ; H8 blank ; H9 — I$a (pp. I — 17) Memorise Matris Sacrum [Latin and Greek verses by George Herbert] ; I$b — 16 blank. Note: On 2 Pet. iii. 13. Not reprinted in the folios, but it is printed by Alford, vi. 244, and by Pickering with the Devotions, 1840 (see no. 41). The printer, I. H., is probably to be identified with John Haviland (1621 — 1638). Copies: BM, ULC, BLO. St John's College, Cambridge. Merton College, Oxford. .ornoris hceejlmmcejit SundonSirndon (fed tu. Amen m ai'hn (BUrujf jlnd are to be JouU JyrRR and Ben. fflffie?* DEATHS D V E L L, R, A Confolation to the Soule, againft the dying Life, and liuing Death of the Body % Deliueredin a Sermon at White HaU> before the Kings MME$TY } in tbebeginmng of Lent, i^jo, By that late learned andReuerend Diuine, Iohn Donne, I>. in Dimniey, 6c Deane of Slants, London. Being bk la (I Sermon^ and called by bisMaitfiies houJhold The Doctors owne Fvnerall Se&mon; L O NDON, Printed byTHOMAsHAB.jB a,for RicbardiRedmcr and Benjamin Fifher, and arc «o be fold at ihc figne of the Talbot in Alderf-gate ftrccr* M.DC.XXX1T. Title-page of no. 24. 2 8 bibliography of Joh?i T>onne 24 DEATH'S DUELL. 4°- 1632 Title {within double lines) : Deaths duell, or, A Confolation to the Soule, againft the dying Life, and liuing Death of the Body. Deliuered in a Sermon at White Hall, before the Kings Maiefty, in the beginning of Lent, 1630. By that late learned and Reuerend Diuine, Iohn Donne, D r . in Diuinity, 6f Deane of S. Pauls, London. Being his laft Sermon, and called by his Maiefties houmold The Doctors owne Funerall Sermon, [ornament] London, Printed by Thomas Harper, for Richard Redmer and Beniamin Fifher, and are to be fold at the figne of the Talbot in Alderf-gate ftreet. M.DC.XXXII. Collation: A — G 4 ; 28 leaves. Contents: Ai signature with ornament; A2 frontispiece; A3 title; A4 To the Reader signed R. ; Bi — G2« (pp. 1 — 43) text; Gib blank; G3 — G^a (pp. 45 — 47) An elegie, On Dr. Donne, Deane of Pauls, and An Epitaph on Dr. Donne ; G4^ blank. Frontispiece : A head of Donne in a shroud, engraved by Martin Droeshout, after the drawing on a board made before Donne's death, which was also used for the effigy in St Paul's 1 . The head is in an oval 13 x 10*5 cm., round the edge of which is inscribed : Effigies reuerendiss: uiri lohannes Donne nuper eccles: Paulina decani. Below is engraved : Corporis hcec Anintce Jit Syndon, Syndon Jesu Amen. Martin 2? /cup. And are to be fould by RR and Ben: ffifher. The plate-mark measures 16*5 x 11 cm. Note : On Psalm lxviii. 20. Reprinted as the last sermon in XXVI Sermons, 1660 (no. 31), and by Alford, vi. 278. It was also printed by Pickering with the Devotions, 1840 (see no. 41). The two elegies are unsigned, but were reprinted with a few changes in the text in the Poems of 1633 (167 and 169); the first is by Henry King, the second by Edward Hyde. The preface, signed R, is probably by the publisher, Richard Redmer. Copies: BM (2), BLO. Cambridge Colleges : Jesus, St John's, Trinity (2, no portraits). Lincoln Cathedral Library. Edmund Gosse. 1 See Walton's account, Gosse, ii. 281. Sermons 29 DEATH'S DUELL. 40. ^33 Title {within double lines): Deaths duell,...By that late Learned and Reverend Divine, Iohn Donne, Dr. in Divinity, and Deane of S. Pauls, London... [device] London Printed by B. Alfop, and T. Fawcet, for Beniamin Fifher, and are to be fold at the Signe of the Talbot in Alderfgate-ftreet. M.DC.XXXIII. Collation, Contents, Frontispiece : The same sheets as in no. 24, with cancel title. Note : The title-page of the second edition (see next entry) seems to have been inserted in the unsold copies of the first edition. Copy: BM. DEATH'S DUELL. 40. 1633 Title (within double lines) : Deaths duell...[etc. as in no. 25] m.dc.xxxiii. Collation : A — F 4 ; 24 leaves. Contents: Ai blank (?) ; A2 frontispiece; A3 title; A4 To the Reader; Bi — E4 (pp. I — 32) text ; Fl — F%a (pp. 33 — 37) An elegie, on Doctor Donne, Deane of Pauls and An epitaph on Doctor Donne (colophon at bottom of F3«) ; Y^b — F4 blank. Frontispiece : As in no. 24. Note : Pp. 24, 30, 31, are numbered 22, 31, 30. The device on the title-page of this edition is a copy of one of those used by Gryphius (1529 — 1550). It was first used by T. Creede in 1602, and probably passed to Bernard Alsop (1602 — 1652) in 161 7 (see no. 339 in McKerrow's Printers' 1 and Publishers'' Devices, London, 191 3). Copies: Pembroke College, Cambridge (Izaak Walton's copy, part of whose autograph is on the title-page). G. L. Keynes. SIX SERMONS. 4°. 1634 Title {within ornamental border) : Six fermons upon feverall occafions, preached before the King, and elfewhere : By that late learned 65? reverend Divine John Donne, Doctour in divinitie, and Dean of S. Pauls, London, [ornament between double rules] f Printed by the Printers to the Univerfitie of Cambridge : [rule] And are to be fold by Nicholas Fufiell and Humphrey Money, at their fhop in Pauls Church-yard. 1634. •OS3C* ■©€&©• •ass** «>£$<* «oss«* «$€' «O€S-0» «ess«* w VwwwVww Vyy V w V V «osa<* «OSS«* «*S9G» •OS' SERMONS UPON SEVERALL OCCASIONS, PREACHED before the King 3 and clfewherc; By that late learned & reverend Divine JOHN DONNE, Do&our in divinitie, and Dean of S. Pattls, London. «0€S<* «06&<* ^r Printed by the Printers to the Vniverfitie of Cambridge; And arc to be fold by Nicholas Fujfcll and Humphrey Mo/Iey t zt their (hop in Pauls Churcb-yaitL 1634. «*€§<* «OS3<* «os§** «*£§<* •is Title-page of no. 27. Sermons 3 1 Collation : A — Z 4 ; 92 leaves. Contents : Ai ornament ; A2 general title ; A3 subtitle to Two fermons preached before King Charles, Upon the xxvi verfe of the firjl Chapter of Genesis ; A4 — F2a (pp. 1 — 37) text of first sermon ; Fib blank; F3 subtitle to The fecond fermon preached before King Charles... ; F4 — L3 (pp. 1—40) text; L4 subtitle to A fermon Upon the xix verfe of the ii Chapter of Hosea ; Ml — O4 (pp. I — 24) text ; Pi subtitle to J fermon Upon the xliiii verfe of the xxi Chapter of Matthew ; P2 — S2 (pp. I — 26) text ; S3 subtitle to A fermon Upon the xxii verfe of the v Chapter of John ; S4 — X$a (pp. 1 — 23) text ; X$b blank ; X4 subtitle to A fermon Upon the xv verfe of the viii Chapter of John - y Yi — Z4 (pp. 1 — 16) text. Note: These sermons were all reprinted in the Fifty Sermons, 1649 ( no « 3°)> where they are numbered 28, 29, 3, 35, 12, and 13 respectively. They are also printed by Alford, iv. 490, 512, 30, v. 28, iv. 191, 206. The fourth is stated in the Fifty Sermons to have been preached on February 21, 161 1; but this is obviously a mistake, since Donne had at that date not yet taken orders. The third sermon was also reprinted in Illustrations of the Liturgy and Ritual of the United Church of England and Ireland. By James Brogden, M.A. (London, 1842, 8°), vol. iii. pp. 161 — 182. These sermons sometimes occur separately or two together, and they may have been so issued. Copies : BM, ULC (2). Cambridge Colleges : Jesus, Pembroke (Izaak Walton's copy, with autograph 011 Aib), Trinity (2). Oxford Colleges : Christ Church, Merton. Lincoln Cathedral Library. Edmund Gosse ; G. L. Keynes (2). SERMON ON ECCLES. xii. 1. 8°. 1638 I Title {within double lines) : Sapientia Clamitans, Wifdome crying out to Sinners to returne from their evill wayes : contained in three pious and learned Treatifes, Viz. I. Of Christs fervent love to bloudy Ierusalem. II. Of Gods just hardning of Pharoah, when he had filled up the meafure of his iniquitie. III. Of Mans timely Remembring of his Creator. 3 2 bibliography of jfohn r Don?te Heretofore communicated to Tome friends in written copies : but now publifhed for the generall good, [rule] By William Milbourne Prieft. [text from Ezech. 33. 11 between rules] London, Printed by I. Haviland, for R. Milbourne at the Unicorne neere Fleet-bridge. 1638. Collation: A 2 B — X 8 ; 162 leaves. Contents: A 1 blank (?) ; A2 title ; Bi — G8a (pp. 1 — 95) sermon 1 ; G8£ blank ; Hi subtitle to sermon 11 ; H2 — R5 (pp. 99 — 250) sermon 11 ; R6 subtitle to sermon nij R7 — X8« (pp. 253 — 319) sermon in ; XSb blank. Sermon: The third sermon (pp. 251 — 319) is by Donne. Subtitle (within double lines) : Alans timely remembring of his Creator; or An expofi- tion delivered in a Sermon upon Ecclefiajles 12. I. Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth [ornament between rules'] London, Printed by "John Haviland, for Robert Milbourne. 1638. Note : These sermons do not seem to have been identified before. The first two are by Dr Jackson 1 ; the third, by Donne, was reprinted as sermon 19 in XXVI Sermons, 1660 (no. 31), where it has the title: A Sermon of Valediction at my going into Germany, at Lincolnes-Inne, April 18. 1619. The text of 1660 differs very con- siderably from that of 1638; probably the sermon was rewritten by Donne for publication after the first written copy had been " communicated to some friends." There is a MS. copy of this sermon in the Bodleian Library (Ashmol. 781, ff. 1 — 1 1). Copies: BM, ULC. 28 b Title : Wifdome crying out to Sinners to returne from their evill wayes... London, Printed by M. P. for Iohn Stafford, dwelling in Blackhorse Alley neere Fleetftreet. 1639. Collation, Contents : As in the preceding entry. Note: A reissue by a different publisher of no. 28a with cancel title-page, from which the name of William Milbourne is omitted. In some copies the date on the title-page has been altered to 1640. Copies: ULC (1639). Emmanuel College, Cambridge (1640). 1 Thomas Jackson, Dean of Peterborough. See his Works, ed. Todd (1844), vol. xi. 361,. and ix. 448. Sermons 33 LXXX SERMONS. F°. 1640 Title (within double lines) : LXXX fermons preached by that learned and reverend divine, Iohn Donne, D r in divinity. Late Deane of the Cathedrall Church of S. Pauls London, [device between rules] London, Printed for Richard Royston, in Ivie-lane, and Richard Marriot in S. Dunftans Church-yard in Fleetftreet. M DC XL. Collation: A— B 6 C, B— Z Aa — Zz Aaa— Zzz Aaaa 6 , Bbbb 4 Cccc 8 ; 442 leaves. Contents: A I blank; A2 title; A3 — A^.a The Epijlle Dedicatorie To his mojl facred Maiejlie Charles... signed by Jo: Donne [/««.] ; A^b blank ; A5 — Ciff The life and death of Dr. Donne by Iz: Wa: [Izaak Walton\ ; Ci/> Donne's epitaph; C2 — Q,\a table of the texts of the sermons; C4^> Imprimatur, Tho: Broun. Novemb. 29. 1639; Bi subtitle to Sermons Preached upon Chrijlmas-day ; B2 — Aaaa6 (pp. 1 — 826) sermons and subtitles ; Bbbbi — Bbbb2 table of scripture references ; Bbbb3 — Bbbb4 table of authors ; Cccc I — Cccc7 table of principal contents (errata at bottom of Cccc7^) ; Cccc8 blank. Frontispiece: Inserted between Ai and A2. A bust of Donne in an oval, 9x6-5 cm., surrounded by an elaborate monumental design; in the upper part is inscribed: Bee Wife as ferpents \ but inofent as Dous, and in the lower part: LXXX \ Sermons | Preached by that Lear = \ned and Reverend Divine \ Iohn Donne. D r in Divinitie \ Late Deane of T e Cathedrall \ Church of S l Paules \ London. The engraving is signed below M Merian Iun:. The plate-mark measures 31 x 19-5 cm. In most copies of the book is found a later state of the engraving, on which is inscribed at the sides of the oval: Mtat: 42, and, on the background above the head, A, partially erased 1 . Texts of the sermons : Rom. 13. 7 Rom. 12. 20 Mat. 9. 2. Mat. 5. 2 Job, 16. 17 — 19 Amos, 5. 18 I Cor. 15. 26 John, n. 35 Mat. 19. 17 1 Examples of the earlier state of the plate are to be found in the B.M. Print Room, in the copy in the library of St John's College, Cambridge, and in my own copy of the book. 2 Reprinted in History and Repository of Pulpit Eloquence. By Henry C. Fish. (New York 1857. 8°.) Vol. 1. pp. 153—165. J. D. S I. Colos. 1. 19, 20 9- 2. Esaiah, 7. 14 10. 3- Galat. 4. 4, 5 1 1. 4- Luke, 2. 29, 30 12. 5- Exod. 4. 1 3 13- 6. Lord, who hath beleeved 14. our report ? (Esai. 53. 1) i5- 7- John, 10. 10 16. 8. Mat. 5. 16 17- 18. Acts 2. 36 2 19. Apoc. 20. 6 20. John, 5. 28, 29 21. I Cor. 15. 29 22. Heb. n.35 23- I Cor. 13. 12 24. Job, 4. 18 25. Mat. 28. 6 26. I Thes. 4. 1 7 34 Bibliography of jfohn TDonne 27 Psal. 89. 47 46. Acts, 9. 4 63. Psal. 32. 10, 11 2S 29. John, 14. 26 47- Acts, 20. 25 64. Psal. 51.7 30 John, 14. 20 48. Acts, 28. 6 65. Psal. 62. 9 3 1 Gen. 1. 2 49- Acts, 23. 6, 7 66. Psal. 63. 7 32 I Cor. 12. 3 50. Psal. 6. 1 67- Psal. 64. 10 33 Acts, 10. 44 5i- Psal. 6. 2, 3 68. Psal. 65. 5 3 + Rom. 8. 16 5*> 53. Psal. 6. 4, 5 69. Psal. 66. 3 35 Mat. 12. 31 54- Psal. 6. 6, 7 70. Prov. 25. 16 36 37. John, 16. 8 — 1 1 55- Psal. 6. 8—10 7*> 72. Mat. 4. 18 — 20 38 II Cor. 1. 3 56. Psal. 32. 1, 2 73- John, 14. 2 39 I Pet. 1. 17 57 Psal. 32. 3, 4 74- Psal. 144. 15 40 I Cor. 16. 22 58. Psal. 32. 5 1 75- Esai. 32. 8 4* Psal. 2. 12 59- Psal. 32. 6 76. Mark, 16. 16 2 + 2 Gen. 18. 25 60. Psal. 32. 7 77, 78. I Cor. 15. 29 43 Mat. 3. 17 61. Psal. 32. 8 79- Psal. 90. 14 +4 Rev. 4. 8 62. Psal. 32. 9 80. John, 1 1. 2 1 + 5 Apoc. 7. 2, 3 Note: The sermons were all reprinted by Alford, i — vi. For an account of Walton's Life of Donne as here printed see pp. 129 — 132. The device used on the title- page both of this volume and of the Fifty sermons, representing Daniel praying, was first used by G. Simson in 1597. It probably passed to Miles Fletcher (161 1 — 1664) in 1624, and was also used by his son James (1649 — 1667). It is recorded as no. 308 in McKerrow's Printers' and Publishers' Devices, London, 191 3. Copies: BM, ULC (2), BLO. Cambridge Colleges: Christ's, Emmanuel, King's, Peterhouse, St John's, Trinity. Oxford Colleges: All Souls, Christ Church, Merton, New College. Cathedral Libraries: Lincoln, Peterborough, Salisbury (Izaak Walton's copy with autograph on title-page), Worcester. Edmund Gosse ; G. L. Keynes ; J. M. Keynes. 30 FIFTY SERMONS. F°. 1649 Fifty fermons, preached by that learned and Title (within double lines) reverend divine, John Donne, D r in divinity, Late Deane of the Cathedrall Church of S. Pauls London, [rule] The Second Volume, [device between rules] 1 Reprinted in Tracts of the A 'nglican Fathers. (London. 1842. 8°.) Vol. iv. pp.93 — 109. 2 Reprinted in Famous Sermons by English Preachers. Ed. Douglas Macleanc, M.J. (London. 191 1. 8°.) pp. 51 — 69 (with introductory note on Donne). Sermons 35 London, Printed by Ja. Flefher for M. F. J. Marriot, and R. Royfton. M DC XLIX. Collation : A 4 B — Z Aa— Qq 6 Rr 4 ; 236 leaves. Contents : Ai title ; A2 dedication To the right honourable Bafil, Earle of Denby signed by Jo. Donne [_/««.] ; A3 blank and lacks A4 ; this may indicate an earlier issue of the volume. The sermons were all reprinted by Alford, i — vi. Copies: BM, ULC (2), BLO. Cambridge Colleges : Christ's, Emmanuel, King's. Oxford Colleges : Christ Church, Merton, New College. Worcester Cathedral Library. Edmund Gosse ; G. L. Keynes ; J. M. Keynes. 9 1 1 i 2 13 14 '5 Mat. 22. 30 Gen. 2. 18 Hosea, 2. 19 Revel. 7. 17 Ephes. 5. 25 — 27 I Joh. 5. 7, 8 Gal. 3. 27 Cant. 5. 3 10. Micah, 2. 10 Gen. 28. 16, 17 Joh. 5. 22 Joh. 8. 15 Job, 19. 26 I Cor. 15. 50 35. Mat. 21. 44 36—38. Joh. 1. 8 39. Phil. 3. 2 II Cor. 5. 20 Hosea, 3. 4 Prov. 14. 31 Lament. 4. 20 Mat. 1 1. 6 Deut. 25. 5 Psal. 34. 1 1 Gen. 3. 24 Lament. 3. I Gen. 7. 24 I Thes. 5. 16 40 4 1 4 2 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 XXVI SERMONS. F°. 1660 Title (within double lines) : XXVI. fermons preached by that Learned and Reverend divine John Donne, Doctor in Divinity, Late Dean of the Cathedral Church of St. Pauls, London, [rule] The Third Volume, [device between rules] 5—2 36 bibliography of "John TDonne London : Printed by T. N. for James Magnes in Ruflel-ftreet near the Piazza in Covent-Garden. i66j% Collation : A 3 B- [*] 2 , B— Q S— Z Aa— Mm" NnOo 6 Pp— Zz Aaa— Ccc 4 Ddd 6 Fff Ggg 4 ; 212 leaves. Contents : Ai title ; A2 dedication to King Charles II signed by John Donne [/««.] ; Bi — Bia To the reader; Bib letter from the Bishop of Peterborough to John Donne jun. on receiving the first volume of the sermons, dated 20 July 1640 ; [*]i — [*]2 table of the texts of the sermons; Bi — Ggg4« (pp. 1 — 411) sermons; Ggg4^ blank. Texts of the sermons : 1. Luc. 23. 40 Ezek. 33. 3 2 James, 2. 1 2 I Tim. 3. 16 Mat. 6. 21 Eccles. 8. 1 1 Psal. 55. 19 Mat. 9. 1 3 omitted] Note : This volume was very carelessly edited and printed. twenty-four, instead of twenty-six, sermons ; sermon 9 is left out altogether, but this omission is neutralised by the fact that under sermon 10 are included two sermons on the same text ; on the other hand, two of the sermons are printed twice over, nos. 16 and 17 being merely repetitions of nos. 5 and 3. The collation, printed above, will be seen to be very erratic ; three of the quires, Nn, Oo, and Ddd, contain six, instead of four, leaves, and two signatures, R (? with sermon 9) and Eee are omitted altogether. The pagination is very faulty, although the right number of pages, 411, is finally arrived at. The numbering runs as follows: Bi — Q4 are numbered 1 — 120 ; Si — Aa4#, 129 — 183 (Aa4^> is blank and has no pagination); Bbi — Kk4, 177 — 232; Iii — Qq4, 241 — 296; Ppi — Ddd6, 285 — 392 ; FfFi — Ggg4<7, 397 — 411. There are in addition several minor misprints in the pagination. Sermon no. 26 was first published as Death's duell y 1 632 (no. 24). The sermons have all been reprinted by Alford, i — vi. The editor has added a note to the preface on B2« which runs as follows : "By the Dates of these Sermons, the Reader may easily collect, that although they are the last that are published, they were the first that were Preached ; and I did purposely select these from amongst all the rest, for, being to finish this Monument, which I was to erect to his Memory, I ought to reserve those materials that were set forth 10. Eccles. 5. 12, 13 [13, H] 19. Eccles. 12. 1 (two sermons) 20. Rom. 13. 1 1 1 1. Esai. 52. 3 21. Exod. 1 2. 30 I 2. Gen. 32. 10 22. Esther, 4. 16 13, 14. I Tim. 1. 15 23- Deut. 12. 30 15- Acts, 7. 60 24. Prov. 22. 11 I 6. Mat. 6. 21 25. II Cor. 4. 6 17- James, 2. 1 2 26. Psal. 68. 20 18. Prov. 8. 17 It actually contains only Sermons 3 7 with the best Polish : The Impression consists onely of Five hundred, which will somewhat advance the Price; but the buyer being at liberty, he can receive no prejudice." This note explains the fact that the XXVI Sermons is considerably rarer than the two volumes of 1640 and 1649; it is also a smaller volume than these two, measuring about 29 x 19 cm. as compared with 34 x 23 cm. 1 It was printed by Thomas Newcomb (1649 — 1681), and was twice reissued with new title-pages in 1661 (see nos. 32 and 32 a). The curious device of two hands actuating pumps, with motto Dum premor, attollor, which is used on the title-pages of all the issues of this volume, is not mentioned by McKerrow in his Printers' and Publishers' Devices, London, 1913; but I am informed by Mr Sayle that it was used for J. Partridge in 1630, by J. R. for G. Thomason and 0. Pullen in 1645, an d again by T. N. in 1670. Copies : ULC, BLO. Christ's College, Cambridge. Worcester Cathedral Library. Edmund Gosse. XXVI SERMONS. F°. 1661 Title (within double lines): XXVI. fermons (Never before Publifh'd) preached by that Learned and Reverend. Divine John Donne, Doctor in Divinity, Late Dean of the Cathedral Church of St Pauls, London, [rule] The Third Volume, [device between rules] London. Printed by Thomas Newcomb, and are to be fold at the feveral Book-Sellers-fhops in London, and at Weftminfter-Hall. 1661. Collation, Contents, Texts of the sermons : As in no. 31. Note : Both this book and no. 32 a consist of the same sheets as no. 31 with cancel title-pages. Copy : BM. XXVI SERMONS. F<>. 1661 Title (within double lines) : XXVI. fermons preached by that Learned and Reverend Divine John Donne,... [etc., as in no. 32] London, Printed at the Charge of Dr. Donne, and are to be fold at his 1 In a recent catalogue Messrs Pickering and Chatto offered a " large paper copy " uniform in size with the other two volumes; I have seen no other copy in this condition. iAi 3 8 bibliography of "John "Donne Houfe in Covent-Garden, neare the Fleece-Tavern ; at the feveral Bookfellers-fhops in London and at Weftminfter-hall, 1661. Collation, Contents, Texts of the sermons : As in no. 31. Copy : G. L. Keynes. 33 SERMONS, ETC. 6 vols. 8°. 1839 Title: The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Pauls 1621 — 1 63 1. With a memoir of his life. By Henry Alford, M.A., Vicar of Wymeswold, Leicestershire, and late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. In six volumes. Vol. 1. [etc.] London : John W. Parker, West Strand, m.dcccxxxix. Collation: Vol. 1. pp. xxxii + 587. Vol. II. pp. iv + 588. Vol. in. pp. iv + 614. Vol. iv. pp. iv + 590. Vol. v. pp. iv + 623. Vol. vi. pp. iv 4-569. Contents : Vol. 1. pp. ix — xxviii Life of Dr Donne. Vol. 1. p. 1 — Vol. vi. p. 298 Sermons 1 — clviii. Vol. vi. pp. 299 — 441 Letters to several persons of honour. Vol. vi. pp. 443 — 569 Poems. Frontispiece: Portrait of Donne, 11*5x9 cm., engraved by W. Holl "from the original painting by Vandyke in the possession of F. Holbrooke, Esq. 1 " Note : This is the only attempt that has ever been made to reprint all the sermons. The letters and the selection of poems are very imperfectly edited, and these texts are not of any importance. 1 See iconography, p. 158 of present work. DEVOTIONS DEVOTIONS Bibliographical Preface Donne composed the volume of meditations, expostulations, and prayers, known as his Devotions, during a serious illness, which confined him to his bed during the last months of the year 1623. At one period he was reduced to a very low state and was not expected to recover. Nevertheless his brain was active, and he sought to pass the time away by recording his states of mind and introspective thoughts ; the result is a most re- markable and interesting book. It was printed soon after his recovery early in 1624, and a letter 1 to Sir Robert Ker written during February or March, 1624, has been preserved, which appears to have accompanied the proofs" of the Devotions and asks for advice concerning the projected dedication to the Prince of Wales. Several other letters have survived, which were sent with gift-copies of the book ; these were addressed to the Queen of Bohemia (Tobie Matthew collection, no. 5), to a lady of the court of Bohemia (Gosse, no. 22), to the Duke of Buckingham (Tobie Matthew collection, no. 9), and, probably, to the Earl of Dorset (ibid. no. 10). The book seems to have been a popular one, and it passed through three editions (five issues) during Donne's lifetime ; two more editions with frontispieces engraved by Marshall were published during the seven years succeeding his death. The Devotions were reprinted by Pickering in 1 840 and by Talboys in 1841, but the work has not been issued since then and is very little known at the present time. I do not know of any translation or foreign edition of the Devotions, but the following statement is made by Morhof in his Polyhistor in the course of his short account of Donne's works : " Scripsit et Meditationes super morbo suo sacras, qua? in Linguam Belgicam conversae et Amstelodami 1655 m I2 ° editae sunt 2 ." This state- ment is sufficiently definite to make it probable that such a translation does exist ; if so, it is probably by Sir Constantine Huyghens, who had already translated some of Donne's poems (see no. 85). 1 Letters, 165 1, no. 90. 2 Polyhistor, 17 14, lib. vi. cap. iv. § 18. See no. 109. J. D. 6 42 bibliography of yohn TDonne 34 DEVOTIONS. 12°. 1624 'Title {within double lines) : Deuotions vpon Emergent Occafions, and feuerall fteps in my Sicknes : Digefted into 1. Meditations vpon our Humane Condition. 2. Expostulations, and Debatements with God. 3. Prayers, vpon the feuerall Occafions, to him. [rule] By Iohn Donne, Deane of S. Pauls, London, [rule] London, Printed by A. M. for Thomas Iones. 1624. Collation : A 6 B— Z Aa— Dd 12 Ee 4 ; 322 leaves. Contents : A 1 title ; A2 — A4 (both A2 and A3 with sign. A3) The Epijile Dedicatorie To the moft excellent Prince, Prince Charles ; A 5 — A6tf Stationes, Jiue Periodi in Morbo, ad quas referuntur Meditationes fequentes ; Abb errata; Bl — Ee3 (pp. I — 630) text ; Ee4 blank. Note : This edition of the Devotions and all the subsequent editions up to 1638 were printed by Augustin Matthewes (1619 — 1653). Copies : BM, ULC. Trinity College, Cambridge (2). All Souls College, Oxford. 35 DEVOTIONS. 120. 1624 Title (within double lines): Deuotions vpon Emergent Occafions,... [etc. as in no. 34] London, Printed for Thomas Iones. 1624. Collation, Contents : As in no. 34. Note: Apparently another issue of no. 34, with a different imprint. Copy: Library of Beverley Chew, Esq., New York (examined for me by Miss Henrietta C. Bartlett). 36 DEVOTIONS. 12°. 1624 Title (within double lines): Deuotions vpon Emergent Occafions,... By Iohn Donne, Deane of S. Pauls, London, [rule] The fecond Edition, [rule] London, Printed by A. M. for Thomas Iones. 1624. DEVOTIONS VPON Emergent Occafions , and fe- ueralifteps in my Sicknes; Digeftedinto i. Meditations vjonotirHu- mane Condition. 2. EXPOSTVLATIONS ,Wl>^ bAttments with God, 5. Prayers^ vpoflthefcHerall Oc- casions, to him. ByIoHNDoNNE,Deaneof I S. Pauls, London. London, Printed by jf. Af.for Thomas IONES. 1624. Title-page of no. 34. 6—2 37 44 bibliography of yohn TDonne Colophon : London Printed for Thomas Iones, and are to be fold at the black Rauen, in the Strand. 1624. Collation : A — Z Aa — Bb 12 ; 300 leaves. Contents: A I blank; A 2 tide; A3 — A4 The Epijlle Dedicatorie\ A5 Stationes etc.; A6 — Bbi2fl (pp. 1 — 589) text; Bbi2£ colophon. Copies : ULC, BLO. Christ Church, Oxford. G. L. Keynes. DEVOTIONS. 12°. 1626 Title {within double lines): Deuotions vpon Emergent Occafions,...By Iohn Donne, Deane of S. Pauls, London, [rule] The third Edition, [rule] London, Printed for Thomas Iones, and are to be fold at the Signe of the Black Rauen in the Strand. 1626. Colophon: London Printed for Thomas Iones, and are to be fold at the black Rauen, in the Strand. 1627. Collation : A — Z Aa — Bb 12 ; 300 leaves. Contents: A I blank; A2 title; A3 — A4 The Epijlle Dedicatory; A5 Stationes etc.; A6 — Bbi2a (pp. 1 — 589) text; Bbi2/> colophon. Note : The two dates on the title-page and colophon suggest that the composition of this edition was begun in 1626 and finished in 1627. Later the date on the title- page was altered to 1627 (see no. 38). Copies : BM. Lincoln Cathedral Library. 38 DEVOTIONS. 120. 1627 Title {within double lines): Deuotions vpon Emergent Occafions,...[etc. as in no. 37] London,... 1627. Colophon, Collation, Contents : As in no. 37. Note : The same sheets as in no. 37, with the date altered on the title-page, pre- sumably while the book was in the press, since the title-page is not a cancel. Copies : Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Edmund Gosse (in contemporary binding with initials I. D. stamped in gold on the front cover; possibly Donne's own copy); G. L. Keynes. ^Devotions 45 DEVOTIONS. 12°. 1634 'Title: Devotions vpon Emergent occafions, and feverall fteps in my SicknefTe. Digefted into 1. Meditations, upon our humane Condition. 2. Expoftulations, and Debatements with God. 3. Prayers, upon the feverall Occafions, to him. [rule] By Iohn Donne, Deane of S. Pauls, London, [rule] The fourth Edition, [rule] London, Printed by A. M. and are to be fold by Charles Greene, 1634. Colophon : London, Printed by A. M. and are to bee fold by Charles Greene. 1634. Collation: A — Y 12 ; 264 leaves. Contents: Ai title; A2 — A3 dedication; A4 Stationes etc.; A5 — Y\Oa text; Yiob colophon; Yn — Y12 blank. Frontispiece: Inserted before Ai. The effigy of Donne in a niche wrapped in his winding sheet; above his head is a skull wreathed with laurel. On either side are two biblical scenes with their texts inscribed below and above as follows : Gen: Cap: 3. v. 6. 24, Ps: 41. v: 3, lob: 10. 9., Mat: 26. v: 41. Below is a shield inscribed : Devotions. | By John Donne late | Deane of S l . Paules. \ London. | Printed by Aug: Mathewes. 1634 j Will: Marshall Sculpsit. The engraving measures 9*5 x 5 cm. Copies: Cambridge Colleges: Pembroke, Trinity. DEVOTIONS. 120. 1638 Title : Devotions upon Emergent occafions, and feverall fteps in my SicknefTe... [rule] By Jo: Donne, late Deane of St. Pauls, London. [rule] The fifth Edition, [rule] London, Printed by A. M. and are to be fold by Richard Royston in Ivie lane. 1638. Collation : A— T 12 ; 228 leaves. Contents : A I title; A2 dedication; A3 Stationes etc.; A4 — Tio text; Tiia Impri- matur. Guil. Bray. Novemb. 23. 1637.; Tub — T12 blank. Frontispiece : As in the edition of 1634. Copies : BM (no frontispiece). St John's College, Cambridge (no frontispiece). 46 bibliography of jfobn TDonne 41 DEVOTIONS. 8°. 1840 Devotions by John Donne D.D. Dean of St Pauls with two sermons I On the decease of Lady Danvers mother of George Herbert II Deaths duel — his own funeral sermon to which is prefixed his life by Izaak Walton. London : William Pickering m dccc xl. 8°. pp. cviii + 227. Frontispiece : Engraved reproduction (enlarged to 11*7 x 6*2 cm.) of Marshall's frontis- piece to the fourth edition of the Devotions, 1634 (no. 39). Note : For the original editions of the two sermons, see nos. 23 and 24. 42 DEVOTIONS. 12°. 1841 Donne's Devotions. Oxford : D. A. Talboys. 1841. 12°. pp. xiv-f 292. JUVENILIA JUVENILIA Bibliographical Preface Donne's Juvenilia are clever and entertaining trifles, which were probably written before 1600 during the more wanton period of their author's life. Owing to their scurrilous nature they could not be published during Donne's lifetime, but in 1632, shortly after his death, part of them were licensed by Sir Henry Herbert. The licences were granted on October 25, 1632, but on November 14 an order of inquiry was delivered at the King's command by the Bishop of London calling upon Sir Henry Herbert to explain before the Board of the Star Chamber his reasons " why hee warranted the booke of D. Duns paradoxes to bee printed 1 ." The inquiry, however, was ineffectual in preventing the publication of the book, the title-page of which is dated 1633. It is not known through what channels the publisher, Henry Seyle, obtained possession of the text, but it is probable that the publication was quite unauthorised, and took place even without the knowledge of John Donne, jun., who, in his edition of 1652, makes no reference to any previous issues. Although the King did not succeed in stopping the publication of the Juvenilia, the licences were withdrawn, so that when the demand for the book encouraged the publica- tion of a second edition during the same year, the publisher took upon himself to issue it unlicensed ; not content with this he even added to the first problem, " Why have bastards best fortunes?," which was particularly 1 This interesting document was discovered by Mr Gosse among the State Papers (Gosse, i. 16) and is printed in the Grolier Club Catalogue, 1905. J- D. 7 50 Bibliography of yohn TDonne insulting to the Court, twenty-three lines which had not appeared in the first edition. It is possible that steps were taken to suppress this edition, which is now considerably rarer than its predecessor. In 1652 the younger Donne, in the course of his exploitation of his father's writings, issued an authorised edition of the Juvenilia, in which he increased the number of the paradoxes from eleven to twelve and that of the problems from ten to seventeen, even the offensive passages in the first problem being now allowed to remain. To these he added two "Characters," "An Essay of Valour," "A Sheaf of Miscellany Epigrams," a reprint of Ignatius bis Conclave, and, finally, the Essays in Divinity. The Epigrams purport to have been written by Donne in Latin and to have been translated into English by Jasper Mayne, D.D. 1 They may have been printed by the younger Donne in good faith, as it seems to be certain that Donne's epigrammata mea Latina once existed 2 ; but the epigrams attributed to him in this volume are certainly spurious and may well have been composed as well as translated by Jasper Mayne, who was an un- principled though witty divine (see Gosse, i. 16). The Essays in Divinity had been printed in 1651 for a different publisher, but, as is explained elsewhere (see p. 69), they rarely, if ever, occur as a separate volume ; for the younger Donne sought to temper the secularity, and even obscenity, of the Juvenilia by issuing them in company with the Essays in Divinity and in this way to invest the volume with an altogether fictitious respecta- bility. This fact has not previously been noticed, although it is laboured by the editor in his preface : " I humbly here prefent unto your Honor, Things of the leaft and greateft weight, that ever fell from my Father's Pen ; which yet, are not fo light that they feem vain ; nor of fuch weight, that they may appear dull or heavy unto the Reader. The Primrofes and Violets of the Spring entertain us with more Delight, than the Fruits of the Autumn ; and through our Gardens we pafs into our Groves and Orchards ; preferving, and candying the Buds and Bloflbmes of fome 1 The epigrams were originally advertised by the publisher Moseley in a catalogue of his books as Fasciculus Poematum et Epigrammatum Miscelaneorum Authore Johanne Dome [sic] D.D. Englished by Jasper Maine, Doctor in Divinity. This may account for the fact that Lowndes incorrectly records a separate issue of the Epigrams, dated 1632. 2 Gosse, i. 17. yuvenilia 51 Trees, admitting them amongft our Delicacies &? Sweet-meats ; when as the riper Fruit ferves onely to quicken and provoke our Appetite to a coarfer Fare — They are the EfTays of two Ages, where you may fee the quicknefs of the firft and the firmnefs of the latter... .Here then you have the entertainment of the Authors Youth ; and the AfTumption of his Wit when it was employed in more Heavenly things." Beyond the facts that the volumes usually occur bound up together and that the original dedication of the Essays in Divinity has been cancelled, there is nothing in the bibliographical constitution of the whole to shew that they actually form one volume ; but the passages quoted above make quite evident the editor's intention. Even in 1652 the Paradoxes and Problemes were not printed entire, for another problem, entitled " Why was Sir Walter Raleigh thought the fittest man to write the history of these times ?," has been preserved at Oxford (Tanner MSS. 299, f. 32), the copier stating that it "was so bitter that his son, Jack Donne LL.D., thought fit not to print it with the rest"; it is printed by Gosse, ii. 52. The Juvenilia have not been reprinted since 1652. 7—2 52 bibliography of yohn Donne 43 JUVENILIA. 4°- 1633 Title : [double rule] Iuuenilia : or certaine paradoxes, and problemes, written by I. Donne, [rule and ornament] London, Printed by E. P. for Henry Seyle, and are to be fold at the figne of the Tygers head, in Saint Pauls Church-yard, Anno Dom. 1633. Collation : A — H 4 ; 32 leaves. Contents: A 1 blank; A2a title; A.2b list of Paradoxes; A3 — Yia Paradoxes I — XI; Y\b Imprimatur, granted by Henry Herbert, 25 October 1632; F2a subtitle to Problems; Yib list of Problems; F3 — H^a Problems I — X; H4^ Imprimatur. Paradoxes : I. A Defence of Womens Inconftancy. II. That Women ought to Paint. III. That by Difcord things increafe. IV. That Good is more common than Euill. V. That all things kill themfelues. VI. That it is poffible to find fome vertue in fome Women. VII. That Old men are more fantaftike than Young. VIII. That Nature is our worft guide. IX. That only Cowards dare dye. X. That a Wife man is known by much laughing. XI. That the gifts of the Body are better than thofe of the Minde. Problems : I. Why haue Baftards beft Fortunes ? II. Why Puritans make long Sermons ? III. Why did the Diuell referue Iefuites till thefe latter Dayes ? IV. Why is there more Variety of Greene, than of any other Colour ? V. Why doe Young Lay-men fo much ftudy Diuinity ? VI. Why hath the Common Opinion afforded Women Soules ? VII. Why are the Faireft falfeft ? VIII. Why Venus Starre only doth caft a fhadow ? IX. Why is Venus Starre Multinominous, called both Hefperus and Vefper ? X. Why are new officers leaft oppreffing ? Note : The Imprimaturs are as follows : Thefe eleuen [ten] Paradoxes [Problemes], may bee printed: this fiue and twentieth of October, Anno Domini, one thoufand fix hundred thirty and two Henry Herbert In my own copy of the book the first Imprimatur has been omitted, Fib being blank ; this is unusual and difficult to explain. / IVVENILIA OR CERTAINE PARADOXES, AND PROBLEMES, WRITTEN BY /. DONNE. LONDON, Printed by £. P. for Henry Style , and arc to be fold at cue figne oi'theTygers head , in Saint Pauls Ciiurcb- yard, Anno Dm> 1^3. Title-page of no. 43. 54 bibliography of jfohn 'Donne Both this and the second edition were printed by Elizabeth Purslowe (1633 — 1646). The device used on the title-pages of both editions is a copy of one of those used by the family Estienne of Paris. It was first used by G. Purslowe (1614 — !D32) in 1618 and passed to Elizabeth Purslowe in 1632 — 3. It is recorded as no. 311 in McKerrow's Printers' and Publishers'' Devices^ London, 19I3- Copies : BM (2), ULC, BLO (2). Cambridge Colleges: Emmanuel, Trinity. All Souls College, Oxford. Lincoln Cathedral Library. John Rylands Library, Manchester. G. L. Keynes. 44 JUVENILIA. 4°- 1633 Title : Iuuenilia or certaine paradoxes and problemes, written by I. Donne, [rule] The fecond Edition, corrected, [ornament between rules] London, Printed by E. P. for Henry Seyle, and are to be fold at the figne of the Tygers head, in St. Pauls Church-yard, Anno Dom. 1633. Collation : A — F 4 ; 24 leaves. Contents: Ai blank; A2a title; A2b list of Paradoxes; A3 — D^a (pp. 1 — 27) Paradoxes I — XI; D^b (p. 28) blank; Eia (p. 29) subtitle to Problemes; Elb (p. 30) list of Problemes; E2 — F4 (pp. 31 — 44) Problemes I — X. Paradoxes and Problems : As in the previous edition, with the addition of twenty- three lines to Problem I. Note: Sir Henry Herbert's Imprimaturs are omitted from this edition, which was probably unlicensed (see bibliographical preface). Copies : Cambridge Colleges: Jesus, St John's (imperfect). Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Edmund Gosse; G. L. Keynes. 45 PARADOXES, PROBLEMS, ESSAYS. 120. 1652 Title {within ornamental border) : Paradoxes, problems, efTayes, characters, Written By D r Donne Dean of Pauls. To which is added a Book of epigrams, Written in Latin by the fame Author ; tranflated into Englifh by J. Maine, D.D. As alfo, Ignatius his Conclave, a satyr, Tranflated yuvenilia 5 5 out of the Originall Copy written in Latin by the fame Author ; found lately amongft his own Papers. De lefuitarum di/sidiis: Quos pugnare, Scholis, clamant, hi {difcite Regno) Non funt Vnanimes, conveniuntq; nimis. [rule] London, Printed by T. N. for Humphrey Mofeley at the Prince's Armes in St Paul's Church-yard, 1652. Collation : A 8 B— K 12 L 4 ; A 4 B— K> L 4 ; 120+ 1 1 6 leaves. Contents : A I title; Al — A 5 dedication To the Right Honourable Francis Lord Newport, Baron of Higharcale, signed Jo. Donne, From my boufe in Cov. Gard. March 2. 1652; A6 — A8a The table; A%b Ben. John/on to the Author (12 lines); Bi — L2rt (pp. 1 — 219) text; L,2b — L4 blank; Ai — L4 Essays in Divinity (as in no. 50). Paradoxes : I. — XL as in the editions of 1633. XII. That Virginity is a Vertue [placed after An EJfay of Valour, E5 — E8]. Problems : I. — X. as in the second edition of 1633. XL Why doth the Pox fo much affect to undermine the Nofe ? XII. Why die none for Love now ? XIII. Why doe women delight much in Feathers ? XIV. Why doth not Gold foyle the Fingers ? XV. Why doe Great men of all dependants, choofe to preferve their little Pimps ? XVI. Why are Courtiers fooner Atheifts, then men of other conditions ? XVII. Why are Statefmen moft incredulous ? Characters : The Character of a Scot at the firft fight. The True Character of a Dunce. Essay : An Effay of Valour. Epigrams : A Sheaf of Miscellany Epigrams : 1. Upon one who for his wives fault took it ill to be called Cuckold. 2. Upon One Roger a Rich Niggard, familiarly unacuainted with the Author. 3—4. Upon a Whore barren and not barren. 5 — 7. On an old Bawd. 8. On a Bawdy-houfe. 5 6 bibliography of yohn IDonne 9 — io. Upon an old rich fcolding Woman who being married to a poor young man upbraided him daily with the fmallnefs of his Fortune. The Hufbands complaint. II — 13. On her unpleafing kifTes. 14 — 15. On the fame old Wife. 16 — 19. Upon one who faw the Picture of his fcolding wife in a Painters mop. 20 — 22. Upon a Pipe of Tobacco miftaken by the Author for the Tooth-ach. 23 — 26. To the Tobacco-feller. 27 — 31. Upon a Town built in the place where a wood grew; From whence 'tis called the Dukes-Wood, or the Burfe. 32 — 36. Upon a navigable River cut through a Town built out of a Wood. 37 — 41. Upon the Medows over-flown there. 42 — 46. Upon a piece of ground ore-flown, where once a Leaguer quartered. 47 — 51. A Dutch Captain of Foot, having with his Soldiers entred a Breach, and there a while fought valiantly with a Two-handed Sword ; In the very point of Victory, being mortally wounded, fpake thus : 52. His Will. 53 — 55. To the Prince of Aurange, on his famous Victory over the Spaniards in Dukes-Wood. 56. A Panegyrick on the Hollanders being Lords of the Sea. Occafioned by the Authors being in their Army at Dukes-Wood. 57. To Sleep, ftealing upon him as he flood upon the Guard in the corner of a running Trench, at the fiege of Duke's- Wood. 58. To his Fellow Sentinels. 59. In Comaedam celeberrimam Cinthiam dictam ad inftantiam alterius fecit. Idem Anglice verfum. On one particular paffage of her action, when me was to be ftript of her cloaths by Fulvio, but not without much refiftance. Videns excogitavit. Ignatius his Conclave: As in the editions of 161 1 et sequ. (subtitle dated 1653) Dut without the leaves The printer to the Reader. Essays in Divinity : See no. 50 (title-page dated 1 651). Note : Printed, with the exception of the Essays in Divinity, by Thomas Newcomb (1649 — 1681). The lines by Ben Jonson on A8/> are from his Epigrams, 1616; they were also printed in Donne's Poems of 1650 (no. 82). Copies : BM. Trinity College, Cambridge. G. L. Keynes. yuvenilia 5 7 PARADOXES, PROBLEMS, ESSAYS. 12°. 1652 'Title {within ornamental border) : Paradoxes, problemes, eflayes, characters, Written By D r Donne Dean of Pauls:... [rule] London, Printed by T: N: for Humphrey Mofeley at the Prince's Armes in St Pauls Churchyard, 1652. Collation : As in no. 45. Contents : Ai title; A2 — A6a dedication; A6£ — ASa The table; A8£ Ben. Jobnfon to the Author; Bi — L4 as in no. 45. Paradoxes, etc. : As in no. 45. Note : In this issue the first quire of eight leaves has been reset, but the other sheets have been left untouched. There are certain minor alterations in the title-page, and the dedication, which is printed in a different type, contains an additional adulatory passage on A^b. Copies : BM, BLO. Christ Church, Oxford. Edmund Gosse. J. D. BIATHANATOS 8—2 BIATHANATOS Bibliographical Preface Biathanatos is the earliest of Donne's controversial writings. His neurotic temperament had tor many years been fascinated by the thought of suicide and in this work, written probably in 1608, he sought by the most ingenious casuistry to justify the act of self-destruction. " Whensoever any affliction assailes me," he wrote in the preface, " mee thinks I have the keyes of my prison in mine owne hand, and no remedy presents it selfe so soone to my heart, as mine own sword. Often Meditation of this hath wonne me to a charitable interpretation of their action, who dy so : and provoked me a little to watch and exagitate their reasons, which pronounce so peremptory judgements upon them And though I know, that the malitious prejudged man, and the lazy affectors of ignorance, will use the same calumnies and obtrectations towards me, (for the voyce and sound of the Snake and Goose is all one) yet because I thought, that as in the poole of Bethsaida, there was no health till the water was troubled, so the best way to finde the truth in this matter, was to debate and vexe it, I abstained not for feare of mis-interpretation from this undertaking. Our stomachs are not now so tender, and queasie, after so long feeding upon solid Divinity, nor we so umbragious and startling, having been so long enlightened in Gods path, that wee should thinke any truth strange to us, or relapse into that childish age, in which a Councell in France forbad Aristotles Metaphysiques, and punished with Excommunication the ex- cribing, reading, or having that booke." Donne was unwilling either to publish or to destroy this curious and characteristic product of his brain, and it was therefore handed round to his friends in manuscript ; one such bz Bibliography of "John Uomie copy, which was given to Lord Herbert of Cherbury in 1619, is now in the Bodleian Library, another was sent to Sir Robert Ker in the same year, and the letters which accompanied these two copies have survived (Letters^ 1651, nos. 7 and 8). His desire was that after his death the book should still be preserved but not published ; his son nevertheless assumed the responsibility of making it public, and it was duly licensed on September 20, 1644. The title-page of the first issue is not dated and appears to be unfinished, but this was probably an oversight on the part of the printer. This issue is somewhat rare, the majority of copies containing the title- page which was substituted for the original one in 1648. Several gift- copies of the Biathanatos are known to me ; one of these, in the possession of Mr S. G. Dunne, was presented to "Ye Rt. Honourable the Kinsmoll" i.e. Lady Kingsmell ; two others, now in the Cambridge University Library, contain letters in the younger Donne's autograph, which are but little known 1 , and are of sufficient interest to warrant their being printed here : 1. For his much honored frinde Mr Lee at the Cockpitt S r 1 take the bouldnesse to present to your hands this booke, hopinge that it may bee welcome to you, euen for the Patrones sake, who has receaued it soe nobly, that, I cannot doubt, but that all his frinds, will entertaine it as somethinge that belongs to my Lorde Herbert, and, has lyen still these fiftie last years, to expect a Patrone noble enough to enter- taine a Peece that is an absolute Originall, and, I thinke, drawen by noe very ill a hande. S r your most humble Seruant Jo: Donne Couent Garden October 26 2. For y e R' re d Edward Carter Esq. S' I haue, here, sent you a Booke, that may, peraduenture, giue you some entertainement out of the noueltie of the subiect, but that is not all,, 1 They have been printed only in Walton's Lives, ed. Thomas Zouch, 4 , 1796 and 8°, 1807. biathanatos 6 3 my reason of presentinge it to you, at this time ; For, since I liued in this Parish I haue published a Volume of 80 Sermons preached by my Father, and haue prepared 60 more, which are licensed, and entered in the Printers halle, which is, as farr as I can driue them vntill the times allter 1 ; I was encouradged to vndertake this worke, by the learnedest men in the kingdome, of all professions, and was often told, that I shoud deserue better by doinge soe, then by keepinge them to my owne vse, for by this meanes, I did not only preach to the present adge, but to our childrens children ; S r , I write this to you, that you may iudg what a sad condition a Scholler is in, when at a publicke vestry, in this Parish, I was told by a pittifull ignorant Baker, I was an idle man and neuer preached your humble seruant Jo: Donne A fourth presentation copy, with a letter on the fly-leaves dated Couent Garden, London, Julie 29, 1649, was sent to " S r Constantine Huygens, Knight," translator of Donne's poems (see no. 85); this copy belonged formerly to Dr Grosart. A fifth copy, also accompanied by a letter, was presented to "J. Marckham " (Cat. of Heber Lib., pt. viii, no. 728). Biathanatos was reprinted by an anonymous publisher in 1 700, but since that date its publication has not been undertaken 2 . 1 See p. 147 of present work. 2 An examination and refutation of Biathanatos is to be found in A full enquiry into the subject of Suicide. By the Rev. Charles Moore. (London. 1790. 8°.) Vol. 1. pp. 83 — 103, and Vol. 11. pp. 1 — 41. BlAOANATOS. DECLARATION OF THAT PARADOXE, OR THESIS, that Selfe-bomicide is not fo Naturally Sinner, that it may never be other wife. WHEREIN The Nature, and the extent of allchofc Lawes, which feemc to be violated by this A&, are diligently furveyed. Written by Iohn Dohnb, who afterwards received Orders from the Church of England , and dyed Deane of Saint Pauls, London. Jo: Saresb. denugis Curial. Prolog. Ncn wan/4 vera effepofitccr. Sed Ugentium ufihvA infenir Published by Authorise. LONDON, Printed by John Daw fen. J Title-page of no. 47. TSiathanatos 6 5 BIAOANATOS. 40. [l6 ^ Title (within double lines) : BIA©ANATO^. A declaration of that paradoxe, or theris, that Selfe-homicide is not fo Naturally Sinne, that it may never be otherwife. Wherein The Nature, and the extent of all thofe Lawes, which feeme to be violated by this Act, are diligently furveyed. [rule] Written by Iohn Donne, who afterwards received Orders from the Church of England, and dyed Deane of Saint Pauls, London, [rule] Jo: Saresb. de nugis Curial. Prolog. Non omnia vera e[fe prqfiteor. Sed legentium ufibus infervire. Publifhed by Authoritie. [rule] London, Printed by John Dawfon, Collation : ^ (*) 2 A' A— Z Aa— Dd 4 Ee 2 ; 120 leaves. Contents: Hi blank; H2 title; 11 3 — H4 dedication To the Right Honourable the Lord Philip Harbert signed by Io. Donne [jun.]; (*)l — (*)2 Authors cited in this Booke; Ai — A4 (A2 with sign. U2) contents; Ai — B4 (pp. 1 — 16) contents; Ci — C4 (pp. 17 — 24) The Preface, Declaring the Reafons, the Purpofe, the way, and the end of the author; Di — Ee2 (pp. 25 — 2 18 [should be 220]) text, at bottom of Ee2/> Imprimatur. Io: Rushworth. 20. Sept. 1644. Note: Pp. 193 — 220 are numbered 191 — 218. Copies : BM, ULC (3), BLO. Cambridge Colleges: Emmanuel, St John's. Edmund Gosse (in original sheep binding with printed label on back). BIAOANATOS. 40. 1648 Title (in red and black within ornamental border) : BIA0ANATO2. A declaration of that paradoxe, or thefis, That Self-homicide is not fo naturally Sin, that it may never be otherwife... [rule] Written by John Donne, who afterwards received Orders from the Church of England and dyed Deane of St Pauls, London, [rule] ...Publifhed by Authority, [rule] London, Printed for Humphrey Mofeley, and are to be fold at his fhop at the Princes Armes in St Pauls Churchyard. 1648. Collation, Contents : As in no. 47. Note : The same sheets as in no. 47, with cancel title-page. J. D. 9 66 bibliography of jfohn T^onne Copies : BM (2), ALE. Cambridge Colleges : Clare, King's, Magdalene (Pepys Library), St Catharine's, Trinity (4). Oxford Colleges : All Souls, Christ Church, Corpus Christi, St John's. Lincoln Cathedral Library. John Rylands Library, Manchester. G. L. Keynes; J. M. Keynes. 49 BIA0ANATO2. 8°. 1700 Title (within double lines) : BIA0ANATO2. [rule] A declaration of that Paradox, or Thefis, that Self-Homicide is not fo Naturally Sin, that It may never be Otherwife. Wherein, The Nature, and the Extent of all thofe Laws, which feem to be Violated by this Act, are Diligently Surveyed, [rule] Written by John Donne ; Who afterwards Received Orders from the Church of England ; and Died Dean of St. Paul's, London, [rule] Non Omnia vera ejfe prqfiteor, fed legentium ufibus infervire. Jo. Saresb. de nugis Curial. Prolog. [rule] London: Printed in the Year, 1700. Collation : a 8 A — N 8 O 4 ; 116 leaves. Contents: a 1 title; a2 dedication ; a3 authors; a4 — A8 contents; Bi — B4 (pp. 1 — vm) preface; B5 — O3 (pp. 1 — 190) text; O4 blank. Copies : BM, ALE. Christ's College, Cambridge. Oxford Colleges : Christ Church, Merton. Cosmo Gordon; G. L. Keynes. ESSAYS IN DIVINITY 9—2 ESSAYS IN DIVINITY Bibliographical Preface The Essays in Divinity were written by Donne about the year 1614 or 16 1 5. The editor, John Donne the younger, states in his preface "that they were the voluntary facrifices of feverall hours, when he had many debates betwixt God and himfelf, whether he were worthy, and competently learned to enter into Holy Orders," but Mr Gosse regards them (ii. 63) as nothing more than scholastic exercises and conjectures that " they were written to be laid before the Archbishop as a proof of the soundness of Donne's orthodoxy and the breadth of his learning." The four prayers, however, with which the volume ends, have a much greater emotional and biographical value, and are a more genuine record than the Essays of Donne's transition from a lay to a clerical life. The volume was printed in 1651, but it is doubtful if it was ever issued separately. It almost invariably occurs bound up with the Juvenilia of 1652 under the title of Paradoxes, problems, ejjayes, characters etc., and as is shewn elsewhere (p. 50) formed part of this volume. It is nevertheless quite possible that a few copies were issued separately in 165 1, although I have not yet seen a volume in contemporary binding containing the Essays alone ; it is likely that such copies would have the leaf A3 intact, which has been cancelled in all the examples known to me and may have contained the original dedication of the Essays in Divinity, addressed, perhaps, not to Lord Newport, to whom the volume of 1652 is inscribed, but to some other patron of the younger Donne. Copies of the Essays occur separately in recent bindings, but this is probably owing to the fact that their owners believed them to form an independent volume, and they are of no value as evidence of a separate issue 1 . The Essays in Divinity have only once been reprinted, edited by Dr Jessopp, in 1855. 1 A copy, for instance, in the library of Mr Edmund Gosse, in modern binding, has at the end a catalogue of 8 pp. of books printed for Humphrey Moseley, publisher of the Paradoxes, Problemes, etc. of 1652, suggesting that the two were originally issued together. 70 bibliography of John TDonne 50 ESSAYES IN DIVINITY. 12°. 165 1 Title (within ornamental border) : EfTayes in divinity ; By the late D r Donne, Dean of S l Paul's. Being Several Difquifitions, Interwoven with meditations and prayers : [rule] Before he entred into Holy Orders, [rule] Now made publick by his Son J. D. D r of the Civil Law. [rule] London, Printed by T. M. for Richard Marriot, and are to be fold at his Shop in S l Dunftan's Church-yard Fleet-ftreet. 1651. Collation : A 4 B— K 12 L 4 ; 116 leaves. Contents: Ai blank; A2 title; [A3 cancelled]; A4 To the Reader; Bi — Kiia (pp. 1 — 213) EJayes; Kub — L4 (pp. 214 — 224) Prayers. Note : Printed by Thomas Maxey (1637 — 1657). Copies : BM (2), BLO. Trinity College, Cambridge. Christ Church, Oxford. Edmund Gosse; G. L. Keynes. 51 ESSAYS IN DIVINITY. 12°. 1855 Essays in divinity by John Donne, D.D. some time Dean of St. Paul's. Edited by Augustus Jessopp, M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge. London: John Tupling, 320 Strand. 1855. 1 2°. pp. v — lxxiv + [2] + 245 + [7]. LETTERS LETTERS Bibliographical Preface The great majority of those of Donne's letters that have survived, have been preserved through the energy of his son, John Donne, D.C.L. A few had been printed by Marriott in the early editions of the poems. Later, in 1651, the younger Donne issued a volume containing one hundred and twenty-nine Letters to several/ persons of honour; it would be untrue to say that these letters were edited by him, since they were merely thrown together in any order, for the most part without dates, and were in addition very carelessly printed. Nevertheless they have much literary and biographical importance and become of great interest when the patient scholarship of a present-day editor has assigned to them their proper dates and positions in relation to the events of Donne's life. This necessary editing has been done by Mr Gosse, and in his Life and Letters of Donne, London, 1899 (no. 126), the letters can be read with more appreciation than had previously been possible. The younger Donne further increased our obligations to him by "editing" in 1660 with equal carelessness a collection of letters which had been made by Sir Tobie Matthew ; this collection includes, among a number of letters to and from Donne, twenty-five from him which had not been printed before, and the majority of these have been incorporated by Mr Gosse in his book already mentioned. Nine new letters were printed by Tomlins in his annotated edition of Walton's Life, 1852. Finally Mr Gosse himself was able to add from manuscript sources eighteen letters which had not previously been printed, so that his volumes contain the only authoritative collection of Donne's letters that has yet been made. A few more letters, also used by Mr Gosse, have been gathered from other sources and are recorded in the entries following. There are still a few more which have not been printed ; the copyright of these has been acquired by the Clarendon Press and they will be included in Professor H. J. C. Grierson's projected edition of Donne's letters 1 . 1 Contemporary copies of five long letters by Donne (four closely written pages, folio) were sold at Puttick and Simpson's on Dec. 19, 1855. I do not know whether these were published letters or not, or their present whereabouts. J. D. 10 74 bibliography of "John TDonne 52 POEMS. 4°- 1633 Title : Poems by J. D.... 1633 [see no. 78] Letters : Eleven prose letters were printed among the Poems of 1633 (see pp. 108 — 1 1 1, nos. 79, 88, and 158 — 166). These were reprinted in all later editions of the Poems up to 1 7 19. Nos. 159 — 166 appear also among the Letters of 1651. 53 POEMS. 80. 1635 Title: Poems, by J. D 1635 [see no. 79] Letters : Four new letters were added in this edition to those already printed in the Poems of 1633 (see p. 114, nos. 20 — 23); these four appear in later editions of the Poems up to 1 7 19 and among the Letters of 1651. 54 LXXX SERMONS. F°. 1640 Title : LXXX fermons preached by. .John Donne,... mdcxl [see no. 29] Letter : In Walton's Life and Death of Dr. Donne. On B5/': [To George Gerrard] January 7. 1630 (Poems, 1635, no. 23; Letters, 1651, no. 87; Walton's Life, 1658, no. 1 ; Gosse, ii. 268). Note : Some passages are here omitted from the letter. 55 LETTERS. 4°- 165 1 Title : Letters to feverall perfons of honour : written by John Donne Sometime Deane of S l Pauls London. [rule] Publifhed by John Donne D r . of the Civill Law. [rule] London, Printed by J. Flefher, for Richard Marriot, and are to be fold at his fhop in S l Dunftans Church-yard under the Dyall. 1651. Collation : A — Z Aa — Sf 4 ; 164 leaves. Contents: Ai blank; A2 title; A3 — A4 The Epijile Dedicatory To the mojl virtuous and excellent Lady M ris . Bridget Dunch signed Jo. Donne [jun.~]; Bl — Sf3 (pp. 1 — 318) text; Sf4 blank. Frontispiece : Inserted between Ai and A2. A bust of Donne at the age of 59 within an oval, 12x9*5 cm., engraved by Pieter Lombart after the oil-painting now at the Deanery of St Paul's. The whole engraving measures 15*5 x 10 cm., and is inscribed on a cloth hanging beneath the portrait : Letters j 5 Viri feraphici Joannis Donne Qua- dragenarii Effigies vera, Qui post earn blank; A7 — D4 (pp. 1 — 44) An anatomie of the World; D5 — El A N ANATOMIE OF THE World. Wherein, "By occafion of the yn- timely death of Miftris ELIZABETH DRVRY, the frailtie and the decay of this whole World is reprcfented. The firft Anniuerfarie. LONDON Printed by W.StansbyioxTho. Deive, and are to be fold in S. 'Dimftanes Church-yard. i6z $ First title-page of no. 13- ioo "Bibliography of Joh?i Donne (pp. 45—54) A funerall Elegie; E2 second title; E3— Es* The harbinger to the Progrefe; E$l> blank; E6— H6a (pp. 1—49) Of the progres of the Sou/e; H6£— H8 blank. Note: I do not know whence the woodcut border representing the seven Liberal Arts, which surrounds the title-pages of this edition, was originally derived, but the same design occurs elsewhere ; it is found, for instance, (though reversed) on the title-page of A Newe Almanacke and Prognojlication for the year of our Lord God, 16 1 5. By Thomas Bretnor. Cum priuilegio [16 1 5]. Copies : BM, BLO. Hoe Library (sold in New York, 26 April, 191 1). G. L. Keynes (imperfect). O F THE PROGRES of the SO V L E Wherein, By occafion of the Re- ligious death of Miitris ELIZABETH DRVRY, the incommodities of the Souk in this life, and her exaltation in the next, are Contemplated. The fecond Anniuerfarie. LONDON Printed by W. StansbyiovTho. Den>e, and are to be fold mS.T>Mnfianes Church-yard, i 6 z j. so i i - ■ ■ ' ■ i J, Hexajiichon Bibliopolae and Hexajiichon ad Bibliopolam. Incerti. ; A 5 — A6tf Epijlle to The ProgrejJ'e of the Soule; A6b blank; A7 — Bb8 (pp. 1 — 388) text; Cci — Dd8« Elegies upon the Author (errata at bottom of Dd8a) ; DdSb blank. Frontispiece : Inserted before Ai. A portrait of Donne at the age of 18, engraved by Marshall; the painting from which the engraving was done is not known 2 . A bust of the subject is shewn, within an oval, 8'5 x 6 cm. His dress is plain, but he is represented with long hair and with a large ear-ring in the shape of a cross hanging from his right ear. His right hand is grasping the hilt of his sword. Above the oval, on the left, the engraving is inscribed: Anno Dni. 1 591. | aetatis suae. 18.; above, on the right, is a crest with motto: Antes muerto que rnudado' 1 . Below are eight lines of verse, beginning: This was for youth, Strength, Mirth, and wit, and signed 1%:W a:\l-zaak Walton]. At the bottom, on the left, the engraving is signed : Will: Marshall, fculpsit. The plate-mark measures 12*3 x 77 cm. 1 A copy is recorded by Lowndes. 2 Mr Lawrence Binyon has suggested that it may have been by Nicholas Hilliard, 1537 — 1619 (Grierson, ii. 134). 3 i.e. Sooner death than change. J. D. 15 11^ bibliography of jfohn Donne Poems, etc.: As in the edition of 1633 with the omission of nos. 87 and 166, and with the addition of the following : PAGE Poems: 1. Song (Soule's joy now I am gone) [spurious ; probably by the Earl of Pembroke] 62 2. Farewell to Love 63 3. Song (Deare Love continue nice and chaste) [spurious ; by Sir John Roe] 65 4. Song (Stand still and I will read to thee) [A Lecture upon the Shadow. 1650] 66 5. Elegie XII. The Bracelet 89 6. Elegie XIII. (Come, Fates ; I feare you not) [spurious ; probably by Sir John Roe] 93 7. Elegie XIIII. His parting from her 95 8. Elegie XV. Julia 96 9. Elegie XVI. A tale of a Citizen and his Wife 98 Satyres : 10. Satyre VI [Satyre VII, 1669] [spurious ; probably by Sir John Roe] 146 Poems: II. To the Countess of Huntingdon (That unripe side of earth) [spurious ; probably by Sir John Roe] 191 12. A Dialogue between S r Henry Wotton and Mr. Donne [spurious ; by Pembroke and Ruddier] 195 13. To Ben Iohnson, 6 Ian. 1603 [spurious ; by Sir John Roe] 207 14. To Ben Ionson, 9 Novembris. 1603 [ditto] 208 15. To Sir Tho. Roe. 1603 [ditto] 209 Funeral Elegies : 16. Elegie on his Miftris 269 17. Elegie (That I might make your Cabinet my tombe) [repeated in no. 33 On himself] 271 18. Elegie on Mistris Boulstred (Death, be not proud) [spurious; probably by Sir John Roe] 272 Letters : 19. Doctissimo Amicissimoque v. D. D. Andrews 278 20. To the La[dy] G[rymes ?] Amyens, Feb. 7, 161 1 {Letters, 1651, no. 88; Gosse, i. 289) 283 21. To My honour'd friend G[eorge] G[errard] Esquier, Paris, April 14, 1 61 2 {Letters, 1 65 1, no. 85 ; Gosse, i. 303) 285 22. Ditto. Aberyhatch, Nov. 2, 1630 {Letters, 1651, no. 86; Gosse, ii. 266) 286 23. Ditto. Jan. 7, 1630 (80 Sermons, 1640 ; Letters, 165 1, no. 87 ; Gosse, ii. 268) 288 Divine Poems : 24 — 27. Holy Sonnets XIII — XVI 339 Collected Poems 115 PACE 28. On the blessed Virgin Mary [spurious ; probably by Henry Constable] 342 29. Upon the translation of the psalms by Sir Philip Sidney and the Countesse of Pembroke his Sister nbb 30. Ode 368 31. To Mr Tilman after he had taken orders 369 32. On the Sacrament [spurious; ascribed to Queen Elizabeth] 372 33. On himselfe 386 34. Hymn to God my God in my Sicknesse 1 387 Elegies on the Author : 35. In obitum venerabilis viri Iohannis Donne [by] Daniel Darnelly. Cc2 36. Elegie on D. D. [by] Sidney Godolphin. Cc6 37. On Dr. John Donne, late Deane of S. Paules, London [by] I. Chud- leigh 2 . CC7 Note : In this edition the pieces have been rearranged (see Grierson, ii. lxiii) and there are some changes in the text ; they include all that had appeared in 1633 with the exception of Basse's Epitaph upon Shakespeare, and Thomas Browne's elegy on the author. Of the thirty-seven pieces that have been added twenty-nine are poems supposed to be by Donne ; of these one (no. 17) appears twice and eleven are not accepted by Grierson as genuine. This edition contains therefore seventeen additional poems by Donne. The Hexastichon ad Bibliopolam. Incerti on A^.b is also an addition. The errata, signed Thine, I[ohn\ M[arriot\ explain that the Epijile to The Progrejfe of the Soule (on A5 — A6) should have been printed before the poem at p. 301. There seems, however, to have been an earlier issue in which the errata do not appear. This fact was communicated to me by Miss Henrietta C. Bartlett of New York, who had herself examined an example of this issue in the library of Mr Beverley Chew ; she states that the volume, which, as far as I know, is unique, is in other respects identical with the ordinary issue. Copies : BM, ULC, BLO. Cambridge Colleges : Christ's, Magdalene (2, no portraits). !o POEMS. 8°. 1639 Title: Poems, By J. D. with elegies on the authors death, [ornament between rules] 1 Printed in Walton's Lives, London, 1670 etc. 8". p. 60. 2 Part is printed in Walton's Life, 1658 etc. '5— 2 1 1 6 bibliography of yohn T^onne London, Printed by M. F. for John Marriot, and are to be fold at his Shop in S l Dunftans Church-yard in Fleet-ftreet. 1639. Collation : A — Z Aa — Dd 8 ; 216 leaves. Contents: A I title; A2 — A/\.a The printer to the vnderstanders ; A\b Hexajlichon etc.; A5 — V2 (pp. 1—300) text; V3 — V4 Epijlle to The Progrejfe of the Soule ; V5 — Bb8 (pp. 301 — 388) text ; Cci — Dd8# Elegies upon the author; Dd8£ blank. Frontispiece, Poems, etc. : As in the edition of 1635. Note : The errata have been corrected and the Epijlle to The Progrejfe of the Soule has been printed in its proper place between pp. 300 and 301. There are a number of minor changes in the text. Copies : BM, BLO. Cambridge Colleges : St John's, Trinity. Christ Church, Oxford. Canterbury Cathedral Library. Edmund Gosse (imperfect). 81 POEMS. 8°. 1649 Title : Poems, By J. D. with elegies on the authors death, [ornament between rules] London Printed by M. F. for John Marriot, and are to be fold at his fhop in S' Dunftans Church-yard in Fleet-ftreet. 1649. Collation : A 4 B — Z Aa — Cc 8 ; 204 leaves. Contents: A I blank; A2 title; A3 — A^a The printer to the vnderstanders; A<\.b Hexajlichon etc.; Bl — Aa8 (pp. I — 368) text ; Bbl — Cc8tf Elegies upon the Author; Cc8£ blank. Frontispiece : As in the edition of 1635. Poems, etc.: As in the edition of 1635 with the addition of the following, after the Funerall Elegies, pp. 262 — 265 : 1. Upon Mr Thomas Coryat's Crudities 1 . 2. Sonnet. The Token. Note : Of this edition very few copies seem to have been circulated, and it is now extremely rare. Probably it was never actually published, the sheets of most of the copies being incorporated in the volume issued by the same publisher in 1650 under 1 First printed in Coryat's Crudities, 1 6 1 1 ; see no. 70. Collected T^oems 117 the editorship of the younger Donne (see next entry). It contains a few un- important changes in the text. Copies : Library of Harvard University (examined for Prof. Grierson by Miss Mary H. Buckingham). Library of Beverley Chew, Esq., New York (examined for me by Miss Henrietta C. Bartlett). G. L. Keynes. POEMS. 80. 1650 Title : Poems, By J. D. with elegies on the authors death. To which Is added divers Copies under his own hand never before in print, [rule] London, Printed for John Marriot, and are to be fold by Richard Marriot at his fhop by Chancery lane end over againft the Inner Temple gate. 1650. Collation : A 4 B — Z Aa 8 aa 8 bb 4 Bb — Cc 8 ; 216 leaves. Contents: Al blank; A2 title; A3 — A^.a To the Right Honourable William Lord Craven Baron of Hamjled-Marfham signed John Donne [/««.] ; A^b Hexajlichon Bibliopolae, Hexajlichon ad Bibliopolam. Incerti, and To John Donne by B[en~\ Jons[on] ; Bi — bb4 (pp. 1 — 392) text; Bbi — CcSa Elegies upon the Author; Cc8/> blank. Frontispiece : As in the edition of 1635. Poems, etc.: As in the edition of 1649, w ' t ^ 1 tne addition of the following on the extra leaves, aai — bb4 (pp. 369 — 392) : 1. Newes from the very Countrey 1 2. Amiciflimo, & meritiflimo Ben. Jonson. In Vulponem 2 3. Aevum fortiti fumus... 4. Catalogus Librorum 5. In Sacram Anchoram Pifcatoris [by] G. Herbert 3 6. To Mr George Herbert, with one of my Seal, of the Anchor and Christ 7. A fheafe of Snakes ufed heretofore to be my Seal, the Creft of our poore Family 4 8. Ut primum per literas... 9. Tranflated out of Gazaeus, Vota Amico facta, fol. 160. 1 First printed in Overburie's Characters, 161 5 ; see no. 73. -' First printed in Ben Jonson's Volpone, 1607 ; see no. 69. 3 Printed in Walton's Life, 1658, p. 84. 4 Ibid. p. 83. 1 1 8 bibliography of "Joh?! r Don?te io. To Lucy, Countefle Of Bedford, with M. Donnes Satyres [by] Ben. Jon[son] 11. To John Donne [by] Ben. Jon[son] 12. [No title] (The heavens rejoyce in motion ; why should I) [Elegy XVII. Variety. 1669] 13. [No title] (He that cannot chufe but love) [Self-love. Chambers] Note : The sheets B — Aa and Bb — Cc were probably those of the preceding entry or at least were printed from the same type, but the first quire of four leaves was changed ; in addition to the alterations on the title-page the younger Donne's dedication to Lord Craven was substituted for The printer to the under standers, and a third poem, by Ben Jonson, was added on K\b. Furthermore, the additional sheets aa, bb were inserted after Aa8, or, sometimes, in error, after Cc8, so that this volume is very variously composed. Copies : BM. Emmanuel College, Cambridge (sheets A, aa, and bb only). Christ Church, Oxford. Canterbury Cathedral Library. G. L. Keynes. 83 POEMS. 80. 1654 Title: Poems, By J. D. with elegies on the authors death. To which Is added divers Copies under his own hand never before in Print, [rule] London, Printed by J. Flefher, and are to be fold by John Sweeting, at the Angel in Popeshead-Alley. 1654. Collation, Contents, Frontispiece, Poems, etc. : As in the edition of 1650. Note : A reissue of the last edition with cancel title-page. Copies : BM, BLO. Cambridge Colleges : Gonville and Caius, Jesus (no portrait), Pembroke, St John's. Christ Church, Oxford. Edmund Gosse (no portrait) ; G. L. Keynes. 84 POEMS. 80. ^669 Title: Poems, &c. by John Donne, late Dean of St. Pauls. With elegies on the authors death. To which is added Divers Copies under his own hand, Never before Printed, [double rule] In the Savoy, Printed by T. N. for Henry Herringman, at the fign of the Anchor, in the lower-walk of the New-Exchange. 1669. Collation : A 4 B — Z Aa — Dd 8 ; 212 leaves. Collected ^oems 119 Contents: Ai blank; A2 title; A3 — A40 dedication to Lord Craven; Jiichon etc. ; Bi — Ddy (pp. 1 — 414) text ; Dd8 blank. Poems, etc. : As in the edition of 1650 with the addition of the following A 4/? Hexa- I 2 3 4 5 Note PAGE 17 86—89 94 97 Break of day, stanza 1 [spurious ; probably by John Dowland] Elegie XIIII, 11. 5 — 44, 57 — 66, and 83 — 94 Elegie XVIII [Love's Progrefs. MS.] 1 To his Miftrefs going to bed [Elegy XIX. Going to bed. MS.] Satyre VI (To Sir Nicholas Smyth) [spurious ; probably by Sir John Roe] 138 Printed by Thomas Newcomb (1649 — 1681). There are numerous changes^ in the text of this edition. Hazlitt states that pp. 95 — 98, containing the additional elegies, were suppressed, but I have not yet seen a copy in which this was the case. This edition does not, as is sometimes stated 2 , contain a portrait. Pp. 121, 123, 221 are numbered 221, 213, 291, but with these exceptions the pagination is correct up to p. 304 (U8/>); it then becomes very erratic, and the remaining quires are numbered as follows : sign. X is paginated 307 — 322; sign. Y, 321 — 336; sign. Z, 377—39 2 ; and si g n - Aa— Dd, 353—414. Copies : BM. Cambridge Colleges : King's, St John's, Trinity. Oxford Colleges : All Souls, Christ Church, Merton. Cosmo Gordon; Edmund Gosse; G. L. Keynes (2). HUYGHENS'S KORENBLOEMEN. 4°. 1672 Title : Koren-bloemen. Nederlandfche gedichten Van Constantin Huygens Ridder,...Tweede druck...t'Amstelredam,... 1672. Translations : Pt. II. pp. 533 — 537 Uyt Engelfch Dicht Van Doctor John Donne 1. De Vloy [1633, no. 127] 2. De verfchijningh [1633, no. 98] 3. Toovery door een' Schildery [1633, no. 96] 4. Den Hof te Twichnam [1633, no. 118] 5. Liedt [1633, no. 102] 6. De dry-dobbele geek [1633, no. 109] 7. Schreyens affcheit [1633, no. 125] 8. De Droom [1633, no. 124] 9. De Verftellingh [1633, no. 38] Printed in Wit and Drollery, London, 1661. 8°. p. 237. This mistake appears to have been originated by Lowndes. 1 2 o bibliography of yohn IDonne io. Aen fijn Lief [1633, part of no. 43] 11. De Vervoeringh [1633, no. 131] 12. De BloefTem [1633, no. 136] 13. Vrouwen ftandvattigheit [1633, no. 103] 14. Affcheit, met verbod van treuren [1633, no. 100] /^i$' De opgaende Son [1633, no. 105] 16. Dageraet [1633, no. 115] 17. Godheit de Minne [1633, no. 132] 18. De Dood-gift [1633, no. 112] 19. Goede Vrydagh. Rijdende Weftwaert [1633, no. 92] Note : The translations are preceded by one leaf Tot den leser, and two poems, Aen Teffelfchade and Aen ein fchoone Weduwer. Huyghens explains in the note Tot den User that " Charles I having heard of his intention to translate Dr Donne, 4 declared he did not believe that anyone could acquit himself of that task with credit ' " (Grierson, ii. lxxvii). This is also referred to by Morhof in his Polybistor (see no. 109) where he writes: "Quorum [Poemata] aliquot in Linguam Belgicam vertit Constantius Hugonius a Carolo secundo Rege sollicitatus, qui inimitabilem Germanis et Belgis hujus viri stylum putabat." For Huyghens's opinion of Donne expressed in a letter to Hooft in 1630 see Grierson (/oc. cit.). The translations are also referred to in M. Llewellyn's Men-Miracles, 1646, in a passage the last two lines of which run : Thus we climbe downwards, and advance as much As He that turn'd Donne's Poems into Dutch. (J. B. to my Ingenious Friend Captaine LL.) 86 POEMS. 12°. 1719 Title : Poems on feveral occaiions. Written by the Reverend John Donne, D.D. Late Dean of St. Paul's. With Elegies on the Author's Death. To this Edition is added, Some Account of the Life of the Author. [double rule] London : Printed for J. Tonfon, and Sold by W. Taylor at the Ship in Pater-nofter-Row. 17 19. Collation : A — Q 12 R S 2 ; 196 leaves. Contents : A 1 title ; A2 — A3 dedication to Lord Craven ; A4 — Aqa Some account Of the life of Dr. John Donne ; Agb Hexajlichon etc. ; A 10 — Al2 contents ; Bl — Si a (pp. 1 — 365) text ; Sl£ — S2 Books Printed for Jacob Tonfon. Poems, etc. : As in the edition of 1669 with the omission of Satyre VI (addition no. 5, 1669). Collected Poems 1 2 i Note : The account of Donne's life is abridged from Walton. Copies : BM, ULC. Trinity College, Cambridge. Cosmo Gordon; G. L. Keynes; C. Sayle. h POPE'S WORKS. 80. 1735 The Works of Alexander Pope, Efq. ; vol. 11... London : Printed for L. Gulliver, 1735. 8°. Poems : pp. 131 — 161. Satires of Dr. John Donne [the second and fourth, versified by A. Pope, with the original versions on the left-hand pages]. 8 POEMS. 12°. 1779 The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne,... In three volumes. With the life of the author... Edinburg : at the Apollo Prefs, by the Martins. Anno 1779. [Bell's Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, Vols. 23 — 25.] 12 . Vol. 1. pp. cvi+109 — 165. Vol. 11. pp. 168. Vol. in. pp. 192. Frontispiece : to vol. 1. Portrait of Donne engraved by Cook (after the engraving by Lombart). 89 POEMS ED. ANDERSON. 8°. ,1793 A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain. Volume the Fourth London :... and... Edinburgh. [1793] [Ed. by R. Anderson] 8°. Pp. 1 — 107. The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne, with short life. 90 TWO POEMS ED. WALDRON. 4°. 1802 The Shakspearean miscellany :... Printed chiefly from Manuscripts... by F. G. Waldron, . . . London : . . (1 802 . 4 . Poems : Among Miscellaneous Poetry. Pp. 1 — 5. Two Elegies by Dr. Donne 1. (Till I have peace with thee warre other men) [Love's War] 2. (Is death so great a gamester that he throws) Note : The first is also printed by Waldron in his Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry y 1802, and, later, by Simeon (see no. 97). The second is by William Browne. j. d. l6 12 2 bibliography of yohn ( Do72ne 91 POEMS ED. CHALMERS. 8°. i8io> The works of the English poets,... including the series edited,... by Dr. Samuel Johnson :... The additional lives by Alexander Chalmers, F.S.A. In twenty-one volumes. Vol. v London :...i8io. 8°. Pp. 116 — 218. Poems of John Donne, with life by Chalmers. 92 SELECTED POEMS ED. CAMPBELL. 8°. 1819 Specimens of the British Poets; with biographical and critical notices,... By Thomas Campbell. In seven volumes. Vol. in London: John Murray,... 1 8 19. 8°. Pp. 73 — 79. Four poems by Donne, with biographical notice. 93 SELECTED POEMS ED. SANFORD. 12°. 1819 The work of the British poets. With lives of the authors, by Ezekiel Sanford. Vol. iv Philadelphia :... 18 19. 12 . Pp. 133 — 195. Select Poems of Donne, with life by Sanford. 94 POEMS ED. SOUTHEY. 8°. 1831 Select works of the British poets, ...with biographical sketches by Robert Southey Esq r . Ll.D. London... 183 1. 8°. Pp. 714 — 731. Poems of John Donne, with life by Southey. 95 SELECTIONS. 12°. 1840 Selections from the Works of John Donne, D.D Oxford : D. A. Talboys. 1840. 12 . pp. vi (numbered viii) + 2 8o. Note: This consists chiefly of prose extracts, with a selection from the poems at the end. ''-96 POEMS. 80. 1855 The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne, with a memoir. Boston : Little^ Brown and Company. ..m. dccc.lv. 8°. pp. xxii + 431. Frontispiece: Portrait of Donne, drawn and engraved by S. A. SchofF (after the engraving by Merian). Collected T^oems 123 UNPUBLISHED POEMS ED. SIMEON. l85 6 Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society. Vol. in. ...London :... 1856-7. Poems: Unpublished Poems of Donne, 31 pp., with a prefatory note by Sir John Simeon, Bart. Note: Simeon prints here seventeen poems and three epigrams, all of which are spurious or doubtful except one (Till I have peace with thee, war other men), which had already been printed by Waldron (see no. 90). POEMS ED. GROSART. ^>. ,g 7 £ The Fuller Worthies Library. The complete poems of John Donne, D.D. Dean of St. Pauls. For the first time fully collated with the original and early editions and MSS. and enlarged with hitherto unprinted and inedited poems from MSS. etc. and portraits, facsimiles, and other illustrations in the quarto form. Edited with preface, essay on life and writings, and notes, by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart,...In two volumes. Vol. 1. [11.] Printed for private circulation. 1872. 8°. Vol. 1. pp. xiv + 278+[2]. Vol. 11. pp. [ii] + lvi + 358. Illustrations : 1. Vol. 1. Frontispiece. A bust of Donne in an oval 5 , 5'x4"2cm., "Engraved by W. J. Alais from a miniature painted in 1610 by Isaac Oliver, in the possession of Mr. Samuel Addington." -2. Vol. 11. Frontispiece. A reproduction of the engraving by Marshall. 3. Vol. II. Facing p. ix. Reproductions of Droeshout's engraving, of Hollar's engraving of the effigy in St Paul's, and of Donne's autograph and seals. Note: A number of poems were printed here for the first time from MSS., but none of them are accepted by Grierson as genuine. 100 copies were printed on large paper (4°). POEMS ED. LOWELL. 8°. 1895 The Poems of John Donne 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, an introduction, and notes by Charles Eliot Norton. Volume 1. [11.] New York : The Grolier Club, 1895. 8 °- Vol. 1. pp. xxxviii + |Ji]-l- 253 +[5]. Vol. 11. pp. x + [ii] + 282 + [8]. 16 — 2 124 bibliography of jfohn Donne Frontispieces : Portraits of Donne etched by S. J. Ferris (after the engravings by Marshall and Lombart). Note : 380 copies on hand-made paper, and 3 on vellum. 100 POEMS ED. CHAMBERS. 8°. 1896 The Poems of John Donne. Edited by E. K. Chambers. With an Intro- duction by George Saintsbury. Vol. 1. [11.] London: Lawrence £f? Bullen...i8o,6. [The Muses' Library] 8°. Vol. 1. pp. [ii] + lii + 252. Vol. n. pp. xi-f 326 + [2]. Note: 100 copies were printed on large paper and contain a photogravure frontispiece after the portrait of Donne ascribed to Cornelius Janssen. 101 POEMS ED. CHAMBERS. 8°. n. d. The Muses' Library. Poems of John Donne. Edited by E. K. Chambers. With an Introduction by George Saintsbury. Vol. 1. [11.] London: George Routledge cif Sons, Limited. New York : E. P. Dutton £s? Co. [n. d.] 8°. Vol. 1. pp. lii + 252. Vol. 11. pp. ix + 326. 102 SELECTED POEMS. 8°. 1904 The Orinda Booklets V. John Donne : Selected Poems. Henry King : Elegies, etc. Izaak Walton : Verse-Remains. J. R. Tutin, Cottingham near Hull. 1904. Limited to 1000 copies. 8°. pp. 63 +[1]. 103 LOVE POEMS ED. NORTON. 12°. 1905 The Love Poems of John Donne selected and edited by Charles Eliot Norton. Boston : Houghton, Mifflin & Company, mdccccv. 12 . pp. xii + [ii] + 85+[i]. Note: 535 copies printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass. 104 SELECTED POEMS. 4°- 1905 Poems of John Donne selected from his songs, sonnets, elegies, letters, satires, and divine poems. ..The Marion Press, Jamaica, Queensborough, New-York. 1905. 4 . pp. xiii + [iii] + 133 + [3]. Frontispiece: Portrait of Donne engraved on wood by Henry Wolf (after the painting in the Deanery of St Paul's). Note: 100 copies printed on hand-made paper. There is a short introduction by Mr Frank L. Babbott, for whom the volume was printed. Collected Voems 125 POEMS ED. GRIERSON. go. 1912 The Poems of John Donne. Edited from the old editions and numerous manuscripts with introductions & commentary by Herbert J. C. Grierson M.A. Chalmers Professor of English Literature in the University of Aberdeen. Vol. 1. The text of the Poems with Appendices [Vol. n. Introduction and Commentary] Oxford: At the Clarendon Press. 1912. 8°. Vol. 1. pp. xxiv + 474 + [2]. Vol. n. pp. cliii + [iii] + 276. WALTON'S LIFE OF DONNE WALTON'S LIFE OF DONNE Bibliographical Preface Walton's Life of Donne , though written with an extraordinary grace and spontaneity, is not to be relied upon for accuracy of detail, in spite of the fact that the author declared in his note To the reader in the edition of 1658 : "My desire is to inform and assure you, that shall become my Reader, that in that part of this following discourse, which is onely narration, I either speak my own knowledge, or from the testimony of such as dare do anything rather than speak an untruth." The Life appeared in its first form in the prefatory matter to the 80 Sermons, 1 640, which was edited by the younger Donne. Though considerable additions were made in later issues, this original form of the Life remained, except in detail, unaltered. The first separate issue of the Life was published in 1658 and this contained, as Walton says in the dedication, " fewer blemishes and more ornaments than when 'twas first made publique." The dedication was addressed to Sir Robert Holt, grandson of John King, Bishop of London, and nephew of Henry King, Bishop of Chichester, friend and executor of Donne, who warmly commended Walton's Life of Donne in a letter printed at the beginning of the 1670 edition of the Lives. The chief additions made to the Life in 1658 are noted under the entry following. In 1670 Walton included the Life of Donne in the well-known volume of Lives* 1 , which passed through several editions in the seventeenth century 1 The Lives of Dr. John Donne, etc.... Written by Isaac Walton... London, Printed by Tho. Netvcomb for Richard Marriott... 1670. 8°. Contains portrait by Lombart. J. D. 17 130 bibliography of yohn c Do7tne and has been so many times reprinted since ; I have made no attempt to deal with the bibliography of this volume. The actual account of Donne's life underwent very little change in this edition, but the Epistle Dedicatory and the note To the reader were omitted ; instead of these there was inserted an Introduction consisting of the first paragraphs of the Life and a passage from To the reader. The letters printed at the end of the edition of 1658 were omitted, but part of one of them and an extract from a new one were incorporated in the text (see no. 61). There were also added "An hymn to God, my God, in my sickness. March 23, 1630," and Walton's "Elegy on Dr. Donne. April 7, 1632." I have not seen copies of the second and third editions of the Lives, but the fourth edition, published in 1675, contains an important addition in the form of a long account of Donne's vision of his wife seen while he was in Paris in 161 2, together with the verses entitled " A Valediction forbidding mourning " {Poems, 1633, no - IOO )> which he had given her at parting. An edition of the Lives was edited with important annotations by Thomas Zouch in 1796 1 . Further annotations, useful though sometimes rather prolix, were added by T. E. Tomlins to an edition of the Life of Donne published in 1852, which is the only separate reprint of this Life known to me and is therefore described under entry no. 107. 1 The Lives of Dr. John Donne, etc. By Isaac Walton. With notes and the Life of the Author. By Thomas Zouch M.J. York. 1796, 4 . and 1807, 8°. ITHE LIF£l <& OF % |Dr. in Divinty,S; % AND I | Late Dean of Saint I ± LONDON. 1 fii *§* ^ The fecond impreflfion cor- § reeled and enlarged. J "" * g Ecclus. 48.14. I? ^ __V o7<£ wonders in his life, and at his § ♦ death his workj mere marvelous. *g_ *»* #_ *fe. - ■ y •» Z. O ND oxr, % % Printed by J. G. for R. MarrUt,md$ g are to be fold at his fhop under Jj ^* S. c Du"fians, Church in J£ J Fleer-lreec. id $8. JfJ Title-page of no. 106. 1 7 — 2 132 Bibliography of yohn TDonne 106 WALTON'S LIFE. 12°. 1658 'Title {within ornamental border) : The life of John Donne, Dr. in Divinity, and Late Dean of Saint Pauls Church London, [rule] The fecond impreffion corrected and enlarged, [rule] Ecclus. 48. 14. He did wonders in his life, and at his death his works were marvelous. [rule] London, Printed by J. G. for R. Marriot, and are to be fold at his (hop under S. Dunftans Church in Fleet-ftreet. 1658. Collation : A — G 12 ; 84 leaves. Contents : A 1 blank ; A 2 title ; A3 — A<)a dedication To my Noble & honoured Friend Sir Robert Holt of Ajlon, in the County of Warwick, Baronet signed Ifaac Walton ; A()b blank; AlO To the Reader signed /. W. ; All — Fl lb (pp. I — 122) The life of John Donne signed /. W.\ ¥\\b — Gna (pp. 122 — 145) four letters from Donne; Gllfl — Gl2 (pp. 145 — 148) An Epitaph written by Dr. Corbet, Bijhop of Oxford, on his friend Dr. Donne, and To the Memory of my ever desired Dr. Donne. An Elegy by H. King. B.C. Frontispiece : Inserted between Ai and A2. A bust of Donne within an oval as in the frontispiece to 80 Sermons, 1 640 (no. 29), but without any of the surrounding design ; it is printed from the same plate, which has not been retouched, though it shews signs of wear. Note : Printed by John Grismond II (1639 — 1666). This edition, which is now very rare, is a reprint of the Life, which had been printed at the beginning of 80 Sermons, 1640, but it contains, besides several alterations, the following important additions: i. An account of Donne's marriage (pp. 15 — 18); ii. An account of Morton's attempt to persuade Donne to take orders (pp. 24 — 32) ; iii. Part of Chudleigh's Funeral Elegie (pp. 48 — 49) ; iv. Donne's grief at his wife's death (pp. 52 — 55) ; v. An account of the friendship of Henry King, Bishop of Chichester, and his proffered benefaction (pp. 67 — 72) ; vi. A relation of Donne's pleasure at hearing his Hymn sung ; his seal ; an enumeration of his friends ; George Herbert and the lines that passed between them (pp. 77 — 85) ; vii. Donne's bequests (pp. 90 — 92) ; viii. An account of the making of the portrait of Donne in his shroud and of the stone effigy in St Paul's ; ix. Four letters from Donne are printed together at the end (see no. 58). Copies : BM, BLO. Trinity College, Cambridge (no portrait). G. L. Keynes. Walton s Life of 'Donne 133 7 WALTON'S LIFE. 8°. 1852 The Life of John Donne, D.D. Late Dean of St Paul's Church, London. By Izaak Walton. With some original notes, by An Antiquary. London: Published by Henry Kent Causton,...[i852]. (The Con- templative Man's Library for the Thinking Few) 8°. pp. iv + 164. Note : The annotations are by Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, an antiquary well known at that period (see N. and £)., Ser. 10. VI. pp. 228 and 338) ; they include nine letters from the Loseley MSS., which had not previously been printed (see no. 64). This edition is scarce. BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM [This list makes no pretence of being complete ; the life by Walton is dealt with in the preceding section. Further critical matter will be found in the various recent editions of the poems, etc.] 8 Theatrum Poetarum, or a compleat collection of the poets,... By Edward Phillips . . . London . . . m . dc lxxv. i 2°. pp. 1 06 — 7. A short account of Donne. 9 Danielis Georgi Morhofi Polyhistor Literarius Philosophicus et Practicus... Editio secunda, priori multo correction Lubecae...MDCCxiv Tome 1. p. 994 (Lib. vi. Cap. iv. § 18). A short account of Donne, mentioning his Poems, Devotions, and Biathanatos. Quoted in full by Zouch in his edition of Walton's Lives. (4°. 1796.) See also pp. 41 and 120 of the present work. The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. By Samuel Johnson. London. 1779. 8°. Vol. 1. pp. 1 — 100. Life of Cowley (with references to Donne). 1 Memoirs of the Loves of the Poets. By Mrs. Anna Murphy Jameson. London. 1831. Vol. 11. pp. 94 — 109. The Story of Dr. Donne and his Wife. 2 Lives of Eminent and Illustrious Englishmen. By G. G. Cunningham. 1836. Vol. III. p. 242. John Donne. J. D. 18 138 bibliography of yohn T^onne 113 Lowe's Edinburgh Magazine. Vol. 1. 1846. pp. 228 — 236. Gallery of Poets : No. I. John Donne. 114 Celebrated Friendships. By Mrs. K. B. Thompson. London. 1861. Vol. 1. pp. 297 ff. Magdalen Herbert and Dr. Donne. 115 The Leisure Hour. Vol. xin. 1864. pp. 555 — 558. Dr. Donne (biographical sketch). 1 1 6 The classic preachers of the English Church. Lectures delivered at St. James' Church in 1877. With an introduction By John Edward Kempe, M.A.... London :... 1 877. 8°. pp. 1 — 26. Donne, the poet-preacher. By J. B. Lightfoot, D.D. 117 The Nineteenth Century. Vol. vn. 1880. pp. 845 — 863. John Donne. By W. Minto. 118 The Argosy. Edited by Mrs. Henry Wood. Vol. xxxn. 188 1. pp. 299 — 305. John Donne. By Alice King. 119 A History of English Literature in a Series of Biographical Sketches. By W. F. Collier. London. 1890. pp. 168 ff. John Donne. 120 Gossip in a Library By Edmund Gosse London William Heinemann. 1 89 1. 8°. pp. [xii] + 337- pp. 55 — 64. Death's Duel (an essay on). 121 The New Review. Vol. ix. 1893. pp. 236 — 247. The Poetry of John Donne. By Edmund Gosse. 122 New Studies in Literature. Boston cf? New York. 1895. pp. go — 120. The Poetry of John Donne. By Edward Dowden (also in the Fortnightly Review, N.S. vol. xlvii. p. 721). 123 Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature. Vol. v. Boston. 1896. (Harvard Univ. Studies : Child Memorial Volume.) p. 3. The Text of Donne's Poems. By C. E. Norton. biography and Criticism 139 L John Donne, sometime Dean of St. Paul's a.d. 1621 — 1631 by Augustus Jessopp, D.D....With two portraits... London 1897 [Leaders of Religion series] 8°. pp. x + [H] + 239 + [1]. jr The Quarterly Review. Vol. clxxxv. 1897. pp. i/3ff. Fathers of Literary Impressionism. 1 6 The Life and Letters of John Donne Dean of St. Pauls Now for the first time revised and collected by Edmund Gosse...With portraits, etc. In two volumes... London William Heinemann 1899 8°. Vol. 1. pp. xxii + 318 + [2]. Vol. 11. pp. viii + 391 +[1]. 17 The Fortnightly Review. N.S. Vol. lxvi. 1899. pp. 734 — 745. John Donne. By Arthur Symons. iS A Group of Old Authors. By Clyde Furst. Philadelphia. 1899. Ch. 1. A Gentleman of King James' Day. Dr. John Donne. 19 The National Review. Vol. xxxiv. 1 899. pp. 595 — 613. John Donne. By Leslie Stephen. 10 The New World. Vol. ix. 1900. pp. 35 ff. John Donne Poet and Preacher. By J. W. Chadwick. ill The Quarterly Review. Vol. cxcn. 1900. pp. 217 — 240. John Donne and his Contemporaries. 12 The Temple Bar. Vol. cxxi. 1900. pp. 614 — 628. John Donne. By H. M. Sanders. 13 Notes and Queries. 9th Series. 1901. Vol. vii. p. 183. References in early English literature to Dr. Donne. 1 4 Beitragen zur Neueren Philologie. Wien und Leipzig. 1902. (Jakob Schipper Festschrift.) p. 400. Uber den Vers bei Dr. John Donne. Von Rudolph Richtcr. 18—2 140 Bibliography of yohn c Do7tne 135 Religio Laici. By Canon H. C. Beeching. London. 1902. Article on Walton's Life of Donne. 136 A History of English Poetry. By W. J. A. Courthope. London. 1903. 8°. Vol. in. ch. viii. pp. 147 — 168. The School of Metaphysical Wit : John D onne. 137 Platonism in English Poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. By John Smith Harrison. Columbia Univ. Press. New York. 1903. Contains references to Donne's conceptions of Love and Woman. 138 Beitrage zur Kenntnis des Stils von John Donne in seinen c Poetical Works.' Inaugural-Dissertation... vorgelegt von Wilhelm Trost aus Frankenburg ...Marburg... 1904. 8°. pp. [iv] + 62 + [2]. 139 Notes and Queries. 10th Series. 1905 — 6. Vol. iv. pp. 41, 121, 201, 302. Vol. v. pp. 301, 382. Vol. vi. p. 22. Montaigne, Webster, and Marston : Dr. Donne and Webster. By Charles Crawford. 140 Conversations of Ben Jonson with William Drummond of Hawthornden. Edited by Philip Sidney, F.R.Hist.S. London. 1906. 8°. Important references to Donne. (First edited for the Shakespeare Society by Laing, 1842.) 141 The rhetoric of John Donne's verse. By Wightman Fletcher Melton... Baltimore... 1906. 8°. pp. viii + 209. 142 The Cambridge History of English Literature. Vol. iv. 1909. Ch. xi. pp. 196 — 223. John Donne. By H. J. C. Grierson. (Bibliography, pp. 488—490.) Ch. xii. pp. 224 — 241. The English Pulpit from Fisher to Donne. By the Rev. F. E. Hutchinson, M.A. 143 The Modern Language Review. Vol. vn. 19 12. No. 1. (Jan.). Donne's Sermons, and their Relation to his Poetry. By Evelyn M. Spearing. biography and Qriticism 14.1 4 The Times Literary Supplement. Jan. 30, 19 12. pp. 37 — 38. The Poems of John Donne. 5 The Nation. Vol. xn. Feb. 1913. pp. 825 — 6. John Donne, the Elizabethan. [By Rupert Brooke.] 6 Poetry and Drama. Vol. 1. no. 2. June, 19 13. pp. 185 — 188. John Donne. By Rupert Brooke. 7 The Modern Language Review. Vol. vin. 19 13. No. iv. (Oct.) pp. 468 — 483. A Chronological Arrangement of Donne's Sermons. By Evelyn M. Spearing. APPENDICES I— V APPENDIX I WORKS BY JOHN DONNE, D.C.L. Preface John Donne the younger was born while his father was living at Pyrford in Surrey in 1604. He was sent to Westminster School, and in 1623 was elected a student at Christ Church, Oxford. Nothing is known of his life during the next ten years except that in 1629 his father had destined him for the Church, as appears from a passage in a letter to Mrs Cockain, in which he tries to console her for the death of her son by writing : " Since I am well content to send one son to the Church, the other to the Wars, why should I be loth to send one part of either son to heaven and the other to earth 1 ." In 1634 he was still at Oxford and a somewhat unpleasant incident is said to have taken place there ; it is related" that in a fit of temper he struck a small boy with his riding whip, the child afterwards dying as the result of his injuries. Donne was tried at Oxford in August 1634 for manslaughter, but he was acquitted owing to the uncertainty of the medical evidence. Possibly as the result of this incident he proceeded soon afterwards to Padua and there took the degree of D.C.L. He returned in 1637 and was incorporated a D.C.L. at Oxford on June 30, 1638 3 . It was about the same time that he fulfilled his father's wishes by taking orders. He soon obtained preferment and on July 10, 1638, he was presented by the King to the rectory of High 1 Tobie Matthew collection, no. 36. Goi e, ii. 308. 8 Gosse, ii. 311. J. D. I 9 1 4 6 bibliography of John 1^071116 Roding in Essex. On June io, 1639, he was presented to the rectory of Fulbeck in Lincolnshire, and about the same time to the rectory of Ufford, Northamptonshire, in the diocese of Lincoln 1 . He continued to rise in the Church and in 1648 was chaplain to the Earl of Denbigh 2 , to whom he dedicated the Fifty Sermons of 1 649. From about the year 1 640 he lived in Covent Garden and he may have been incumbent of some church in that district. His petition of 1661 on behalf of the inhabitants of Covent Garden is recorded here under entry no. 148. He died at the age of 58 in 1662, and his will (see no. 150) was printed as a broadside in February of the same year. Meanwhile, from the year 1 640 to the time of his death, he had been shewing considerable literary activity, and it is owing to his energy that the greater portion of his father's writings has been preserved for us. There is evidence that the elder Donne had early thought of his son as his future literary executor, for he had written to a friend from Chelsea on November 25, 1625 : "I have revised as many of my sermons as I have kept any note of, and I have written out a great many, and hope to do more. I am already come to the number of eighty 3 , of which my son, who, I hope will take the same profession, or some other in the world of under- standing, may hereafter make some use 4 ." On the other hand Henry King, Bishop of Chichester, in a long letter written in 1640 to Izaak Walton, which was prefixed to the Lives in 1670, states that Donne professed before several witnesses on his death-bed " that it was by my restless importunity, that he had prepared them [the sermons] for the press " ; he declares also that three days before his death Donne had made him his executor and given him the sermons, his sermon notes, " and his other papers, containing an extract of near Fifteen hundred Authors." He further hints that the younger Donne, using Walton as a go-between, had filched these papers from his keeping, and this was, indeed, probably the case, for in his will Donne makes the following bequest: "To the 1 Gosse, ii. 311. ' Gosse, ii. 320. 3 This does not refer to the 80 Sermons of 1640, since twenty-six of the sermons in that collection are dated later than 1625, the year in which this letter was written. This was first pointed out by Mr F. E. Hutchinson in the Camb. Hist, of Eng. Lit. iv. 240-1. 4 Gosse, ii. 3 10. ^Appendix I i±n Reverend Bishop of Chichester I return that Cabinet that was my Father's ...and all those Papers which are of Authors analysed by my Father." Donne states in his preface to the XXVI Sermons of 1660 that "upon the death of my father... I was sent to by His Majesty of Blessed Memory to recollect and publish his Sermons" ; this may or may not have been true. Donne's petition of 1637 to the Archbishop of Canterbury shews that already before this he had made an attempt to gain control of those others of his father's writings which had been published without his authority. The petitioner states " that since y e death of his Father there hath bene manie scandalous Pamflets printed, and published, under his name, which were none of his, by severall Boocksellers, withoute anie leave or Autoritie ; in particuler one entitoled Juvenilia, printed for Henry Seale ; another by John Marriott and William Sheares, entitoled Ignatius his Conclave, as allsoe certaine Poems by y e sayde John Marriote, of which abuses thay have bene often warned by your Pe tr and tolde that if thay desisted not, thay should be proceeded against beefore your Grace, which thay seeme soe much to slight, that thay profess soddainly to publish new impressions, verie much to the greife of your Pe tr and the discredite of y e memorie of his Father 1 ." The Archbishop granted Donne's petition by calling upon those concerned to desist from their illegal practices, but his authority was ineffectual, and it was only in 1650 that Donne acquired control of his father's poems, in which year he published an edition with a dedication to Lord Craven. In 1644 he published his father's Biathanatos, and his pre- sentation copies of this book with the letters contained in them have already been noticed (see pp. 62 — 63). In 1649 he issued the second volume of Fifty Sermons, and in an address to the Lords Commissioners ot the Great Seal he indicates that he had not undertaken the publication ot the sermons without some official reward. In a letter already quoted (p. 63) of about 1 644 he shews that he had had these sermons ready and entered at Stationers' Hall, but that he had kept them back from fear of persecution by the Commonwealth government. In 1651 he published his father's Letters to several persons of honour, and in the same year he prepared the Essays in Divinity, which he incorporated in 1652 in the volume ot Juvenilia 1 Printed in full by Grierson, ii. lxvi. The petition is preserved in the Record Office. 1 9 148 bibliography of yohi2 'Donne together with a reprint of Ignatius his Conclave. In 1660 he issued the final volume of XXVI Sermons, this time at his own expense. In the same year he also edited both Sir Tobie Matthew's Collection of Letters, and a collection of poems by the Earl of Pembroke and Sir Benjamin Ruddier 1 . His own work, entitled Donne's Satyr (no. 149), was published in 1662 ; it consists of somewhat obscene, though not very amusing, pleasantries. The younger Donne's character has usually been held somewhat in contempt, and it is certain that he gives no particular sign of intellectual distinction and does not appear to have been remarkable either for honesty or for morality. Anthony a- Wood has characterised him as "an atheistical buffoon, a banterer, and a person of over free thoughts, yet valued by Charles II." The following little-known extracts may be quoted from two of his letters, which are unfortunately not dated : " I receaued a letter from y r Lp. this weeke, but it was rauished from mee by a verie handsome Ladie, who after shee had taken the pleasure of readinge it, tore it and burnt it ; a little more familiarity would haue giuen me a iust occasion to haue clapt her breech, and then I must haue faught with Sir Lionell the husband, for it is now cominge into fashion 2 ." " I hope, likewise, you haue not the feare of God before your eyes, and being ashamed of that, make Hine-head and Lob-lane your excuse ; if you haue, pray my Lord speake plaine, that if you are turned sainct, we may deliuer you up to Satan, and keepe these Angels to ourselues 3 ." We are now, however, prying into his private life, and we must leave him with a remembrance of the gratitude due to him for his labours on behalf of the memory of his father. 1 Poems, Written by the right honourable William Earl of Pembroke... Many of which are answered by way of Repartee, by S? Benjamin Ruddier, Knight. With several distinct poems... London, Printed by Matthew Inman, and are to be sold by James Magnes... 1660. 8°. 2 N. iff Q. S. 3. iv. 149. 3 Ibid. ^Appendix I r jn DONNE'S PETITION. l66l To the Right Honorable, the Lord Chancellor, the humble Petition of Covent Garden. [1661.] Broadside, 31 X2i cm. Note : A petition for the removal of one, Dr. Babre, from a position of authority, by reason of his unjust persecutions. It is signed by Bedford Berry, St. An. Sbandois, Piazza King, Henrietta Bedford, James Rujfel, Charles York, Bridges Bowjireet, Amen Manto, Todos Autros 1 . The copy described is inscribed below in a con- temporary hand : Autbore D. D re . Donne Jun. 1661. John Donne the younger lived in Covent Garden. Copy : BLO. DONNE'S SATYR. 8°. 1662 Title : Donne's Satyr. Containing 1. A fhort Map of mundane Vanity 2. A Cabinet of Merry Conceits 3. Certain pleafant Propositions, and Queftions, with their merry Solutions and Anfwers. Being very Ufeful, Pleafant, and Delightful to all ; and OfFenfive to none, [rule] By Jo. Donne, [ornament between rules] London, Printed by R. W. for M. Wright, at the Kings Head in the Old-Bailey, 1662. Collation : A — I 8 ; 72 leaves. Contents: Ai frontispiece (a satyr); A2 title; A3 — A7 The Epijlle Dedicators; A8 — I8a (pp. 1 — 129) text; \%b Books printed for M. Wright. Folding sheet inserted between B6 and B7. Note : Printed by (?) Robert White (1639 — 1667). Copy: BM. 1 i.e. "All the rest"; the other names are evidently fictitious, several of them being made up from the names of various streets round Covent Garden. ISO bibliography of yohn r Don?ie 150 DONNE'S WILL. 1662 Dr. Donne's Laft Will and Teftament. July 21. 1657... Printed, Feb- ruary 23. 1662. Broadside , with black border ; 39 x 26 cm. Note: Donne makes Jerome, Earl of Portland, his executor, and the will was witnessed by the Earl of Marleburgh and Will. Glascocke, November 2, 1661. The following extract is of interest : " To Mr. Isaac Walton, I give all my writings under my Father's hand, which may be of some use to his Son, if he makes him a Scholar. To the Reverend Bishop of Chichester, I return that Cabinet that was my Father's, now in my Dining- Room, and all those Papers which are of Authors Analysed by my Father ; many of which he hath already received with his Common-Place Book, which I desire may pass to Mr. Walton s Son, as being more likely to have use for such a help, when his age shall require it." Copies: BM, BLO. Trinity College, Cambridge. APPENDIX II WORKS BY JOHN DONE Preface The two dull and unimportant works by John Done called Polydoron and The Ancient History of the Septuagint have been persistently attributed to Donne, some colour being lent to this attribution by the fact that the publishers have falsely described Done on the title-page of the second edition of The History of the Septuagint as " the Learned and Reverend Dr John Done, late Dean of St. Pauls." An inquiry concerning Done, which was made in Notes and Queries (Ser. 6. vi. 47), elicited from the late Dr Augustus Jessopp the following reply : " It is one of the ' curiosities of literature' that this latter volume [The History of the Septuagint'] should have been attributed to the Dean of St. Paul's by every editor of Walton's Lives till the mistake was pointed out by me in 1855. It is a trumpery production, and could never be set down to the great dean by any one .ir all familiar with his writings. I tried to find out something about the man Done twenty-five years ago, but I cannot lay my hands on my notes ; my impression is that he was a needy schoolmaster, who was employed by the booksellers." (N. & Q. Ser. 6. vi. 95, July, 1882.) A long letter from Done on alchemy is preserved in the Bodleian (Ashm. MS. 1415, t. [9^). 152 bibliography of yohn c Do72?ie 151 POLYDORON. Title : Polydoron I2< 1631 or a mifcellania of Morall, Philofophicall, and Theo- logicall fentences. [rule] By Iohn Done, [rule and device] Printed at London by Tho. Cotes, for George Gibbes dwelling in Popes-head Alley at the figne of the Flower de Luce. 1 63 1 . Collation: A — I 12 K 4 ; 112 leaves. Contents: Ai blank except for sign.; A2 title; A3 — A4.fi (both with sign. A4) To the Reader signed /. Done ; A4I? blank; A5 — K4 (pp. 1 — 2 1 6) text (errata at bottom of K4*). Note : Some copies have a leaf with dedication to the Earl of Dover and with signature A3 inserted between A2 and A3. In the BM copy this appears to be printed on a sheet of two leaves together with the first leaf of To the Reader, this sheet being inserted between A2 and A4. I am unable to explain the discrepancy. The device on the title-page of a fleur-de-lis within a border of leaves and berries is recorded as no. 415 in McKerrow's Printers'' and Publishers' Devices, London, Copies: BM, ULC. Emmanuel College, Cambridge. 152 POLYDORON. 120. 165a Title (within ornamental border) : A mifcellanea of morall, theologicall, and philosophicall fentances ; [rule] Worthy obfervation. [ornament be- tween rules] Printed for Iohn Sweeting, At the Angel in Popes-head-alley, 1650. Collation : As in no. 151. Contents : A 1 title ; A2 (with sign. A3) dedication To the Right Honourable Henry, Earl of Dover, &c. signed Iohn Done ; A3 — K4 as in preceding entry. Note : This is a reissue of the preceding entry. Ai and A2 are both cancel leaves, consisting of a new title-page and a dedication, which had been inserted in some copies of the first issue. Copy: BLO. 153 HISTORY OF THE SEPTUAGINT. 8°. 1633 Title (within double lines) : The Auncient Hiftory of the Septuagint. Written in Greeke, by Arifteus 1900. Yeares since — Newly done ^Appendix II 153 into English [rule] By I. Done, [rule] Tempora, Tempera, Tempore. [rule] London : Printed by N. Okes. 1633. Collation: A — O 8 ; 112 leaves. Contents : Ai blank ; A2 title ; A3 — Aba To the Intelligent General Reader ; A6// A8 The Elenchus^ or Contence of the Following Booke ; Bl — 08 (pp. 1 — 80 89 184 189 — 219) text, pp. I — 10 being headed : Certaine Pracognita. Note : A number of pages, as noted above, are omitted from the pagination. Copies : BM, ULC. Edmund Gosse; G. L. Keynes. HISTORY OF THE SEPTUAGINT. 12°. 1685 Title {within double lines) : The ancient hiftory of the Septuagint. Written in Greek by Arifteus near two thoufand years ago.... [rule] Firft Englifh'd from the Greek, by the Learned and Reverend Dr. John Done, late Dean of St. Pauls, [rule] Now Revifed, and very much Corrected from the Original, [rule] London, Printed for W. Henfman, and Tho. Fox, Bookfellers in Weftminfter-Hall. 1685. Collation : A — I 12 ; 1 08 leaves. Contents: Ai blank; A2 title; A3 — A5 To the Reader; A6 — A7 The Elenchus ; A8 — A12 (pp. I — 10) Certain Pracognita ; Bl — Il2 (pp. 1 — 192) text. Note : Done is falsely described on the title-page of this edition (see my preface). Copies : BM, ULC. Jesus College, Cambridge. G. L. Keynes. J. D. APPENDIX III BOOKS FROM DONNE'S LIBRARY [I have noticed copies of the following works, which contain Donne's autograph, and presumably are from his library. Probably there are many more in existence.] 155 Sutcliffe, M. Subversion of Robert Parsons, his confused and worthlesse work, entituled a Treatise of Three Conversions of England. 1606. 4 . 156 Ormerod, O. Picture of a Puritane, or a Relation of the Opinions, Qualities and Practices of the Anabaptists in Germany, and of the Puritans in England, and Discovery of Puritan-Papisme. 1605. 4 . 157 Answere made by one of our Brethren, a Secular Priest, now in Prison, to a Fraudulent Letter of M. George Blackwels, in commendation of the Jesuite in England. 1602. 4 . 158 Articles of Peace, Entercourse, and Commerce, concluded by James I. with Philip III. of Spaine. 1605. 4°« kq Fenton, R. Answere to William Alablaster, his Motives. 1599. 4 . 160 Perkins, W. Second Part of the Reformation of a Catholic Deformed. 1607. 4 . 161 An Answer unto Mr. Perkin's Advertisement. 4 . 162 Covell, W. Defence of R. Hooker's Ecclesiastical Politic 1603. 4 . 163 Holland, T. Panegyris D. Elizabethan Reginae, a Sermon in Paul's Church, 17th. November, 1599. Oxford. 1600. 4 . 1 64 Hyll, A. Defence of the Article, Christ Descended into Hell, against one Alexander Humes. 1592. 4 . [The above ten tracts are bound in one volume in original vellum ; they contain Donne's signatures and numerous references in his autograph. Offered in a catalogue issued by Messrs Pickering and Chatto, 1902, item 1809.] ^Appendix III 155 5 Gentilis, Albericus. Regales Disputationes tres. Londini Apud Thomam Vautrol- lierum. 1605. 4 . S D'Aluin, Stephanus. Tractatus de Potestate Episcoporum, Abbatum, etc. Paris: is apud Franciscum Huby. 1607. 4 . [The two tracts above have Donne's signature at the bottom of the title-paces and an Italian inscription: "Per Rachel ho seruito & no per Lea 1 ," at the top. See cat. 737, issued by Mr Tregaskis, Feb. 19 13.] 7 F[reher], M. Sulpitius ; sive de aequitate commentarius, etc. 1608. 4°. [Contains Donne's autograph. Now in the BM, 501. e. 10 (3).] I de Vineus, Petrus. Epistolarum libri vi. Ambergae, Apud Johannem Schonfeldium. 1609. 12°. [Autograph and inscription as in nos. 165 — 166. In the possession of Mr Everard Meynell.] 1 This is not an exact quotation, but see Genesis, xxix. 25. 20- 2 APPENDIX IV A BOOK DEDICATED TO DONNE 169 Title : The lawyers Philosophy : or, law brought to light. Poetized In a Diuine Rhapfodie or Contemplatiue Poem. By Roger Tifdale, Gent. Sat Serb, [device] At London printed for I. T. and H. G. and are to bee fold at the Widdow GorTons in Pannier Alley. 1622. Collation : A — C 8 D 4 ; 28 leaves. Contents: Ai blank; A2 title; A3 — A5 The Epijile Dedicatorie To the learned and reuerend lobn Donne, D. of Diuinitie, Deane of the Cathedrall Church of S f Paule London, Roger Tifdale wijheth peace of Confcience in this world, and the ioy of the world to come ; A6 To the learned and confederate Reader ; A7 — D2 The Lawyers Philo- sophy ; D3 To the defire of my Youth, and hope of mine Age, my young fonne Roger; D4 blank. Note : The device on the title-page is the same as that found on the title-pages of the two editions of Donne's Juvenilia, 1633 (nos. 43, 44). Copies : BM. Edmund Gosse. APPENDIX V ICONOGRAPHY [This list is only intended to be a brief guide to the iconography of John Donne.] A. Oil Paintings : i. Bust, full face, with bare neck and a cloak round the shoulders. Circular, diameter 58 cm. Painted in 1631, aet. 59. Painter unknown. Now in the dining-room at the Deanery of St Paul's Cathedral. An engraving after this portrait was made by Lombart in 165 1 (see no. 5 below). The painting is reproduced in Gosse, frontispiece to vol. ii. 2. A replica or copy of no. 1. Now in the Dyce collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, where it is ascribed to Cornelius Janssen. B. Stone Effigy : 3. Full-size effigy of Donne in his shroud ; at his feet is an urn and above his head is a marble tablet with an epitaph written by himself. Carved in Italian marble by Nicholas Stone in 163 1 after the portrait, which had been drawn on a board by an unnamed artist shortly before Donne's death. The effigy was originally within the choir in the south aisle of old St Paul's, and was the only monument, which was saved intact from the fire of 1666 ; it is now in a corresponding position in the present Cathedral. For further particulars of this effigy, see Walton's Life of Donne, 1658, pp. 1 1 1 — 114, and Gosse, ii. 280 — 288. Engravings of the effigy were made by Marshall (no. 7 below) and by Hollar (no. 9 below). Photographs of it are reproduced in Gosse, vol. ii, facing p. 280. C. Engravings : 4. 1 59 1. Aet. 18. Bust, three-quarter face to right, in an oval 8*4 x 6-4 cm. Engraved in line and stipple by Marshall after an unknown painting ; lines by Walton below. Used as frontispiece to the second edition of the Pomu, 1635, and to several subsequent editions (see nos. 79 — 83). Reproduced as frontispiece to Gosse, vol. i, as frontispiece to present work, ami elsewhere. 158 bibliography of yohn TDonne 5. 1631. Jet. 59. Bust in an oval, 10*2 x 8*5 cm. Engraved in line by Lombart after no. 1 or 2 above. Used as frontispiece to the Letters, 1651 and 1654 (see nos. 55, 56) ; also in Walton's Lives, 1670 and 1675. Reproduced in Gosse, vol. ii, facing p. 80, and elsewhere. 6. Donne's head in a shroud, within an oval, ii'4X 8*5 cm. Engraved in line by Droeshout after the stone effigy (no. 3 above) or the original drawing on a board. Used as frontispiece to Death's Duel/, 1632 (see nos. 24 — 26). Copied by Skelton for Walton's Lives, ed. Zouch, 1796, etc. Reproduced in Gosse, vol. ii, facing p. 300, in present work, facing p. 27, and elsewhere. 7. Full-length in shroud, measuring, with decorations, 9-5 x 5 cm. Engraved by Marshall after the effigy in St Paul's. Used as frontispiece to the fourth and fifth editions of the Devotions, 1634 and 1638 (see nos. 39 and 40). Reproduced in Pickering's edition of the Devotions, 1840 (see no. 41), and facing p. 45 of present work. 8. 1614. Jet. 42. Bust, three-quarter face to right, dressed in gown and ruff, within an oval, 9 x 6*5 cm. Engraved in line and stipple by Merian in the centre of the frontispiece to the 80 Sermons, 1640 (see no. 29). The original painting is unknown. The portrait alone was also used as a frontispiece to Walton's Life of Donne, 1658 (see no. 106). Copied by Skelton for Walton's Lives, ed. Zouch, 1796, etc. Reproduced in Gosse, vol. ii, facing p. 144, and facing p. 33 of present work. 9. Full-length in shroud, 30 x 10 cm. Engraved in line by Hollar after the effigy in St Paul's for Dugdale's History of St Paul's, 1658, p. 62. 10. Bust, three-quarter face to left, dressed in gown and ruff; rectangular, 9*6 x 7 "6 cm. Engraved in line by A. Duncan after a drawing by G. Clint, A.R.A., " from an original picture in the possession of the Revd Dr Barrett." A plate from Effigies Poetiae, London, W. Walker, 1822, 8°; also india paper proofs on large paper. The original picture is not known to me. Reproduced in Gosse, vol. i, facing p. 304. 11. Bust, full-face, dressed in gown and broad linen collar, in an oval, I0'6 x 8*6 cm. Engraved in line and stipple by W. Holl, "from the original picture by Vandyke in the possession of F. Holbrooke, Esq." Used as frontispiece to Donne's Works, ed. Alford, 1839, vol. i (see no. 33). The head closely resembles that of the two oil paintings, nos. 1 and 2 above ; the " original picture " is perhaps to be identified with no. 2, the dress having been slightly altered in the engraving. 12. Bust in an oval, 5*5 x 4*2 cm. Engraved by Alais after "a miniature painted in 1 610 by Isaac Oliver." Used as frontispiece to Donne's Poems, ed. Grosart, 1872, vol. i (see no. 98). The miniature is not known to me. LIST OF PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS INDEX PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS, 1607—1719 The numbers refer to the entries in the bibliography Alsop, Bernard 25, 26 Bedell, G. 57 Bennet, Thomas 62 Brad wood, M. 75 Burre, Walter 1 Cambridge, University Printers 27 Collins, James 1 1 Collins, T. 57 Cotes, Thomas 151 Creede, Thomas 73 Dawson, John 47 Dewe, Thomas 76, 77 Fawcet, Thomas 25, 26 Fisher, Benjamin 24, 25, 26 Fletcher, James 30, 55, 56, 83 Fletcher, Miles 7, 29, 30, 78, 79, 80, Fox, Thomas 154 Fussell, Nicholas 27 G., H. 168 Gibbes, George 151 Gosson, Widow 168 Greene, Charles 39 Grismond, John, II 106 Harper, Thomas 24 Haviland, John 23, 28a Hensman, William 154 Herringman, Henry 59, 84 Home, Thomas 62 Jones, Thomas 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 1 20, 21, 22, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 Lisle, Laurence 73 Lownes, Humfrey 72 81 8, 19, Macham, Samuel 74, 75 Magnes, James 3 1 Marriot, John 8, 9, 30, 78, 79, 80, 8.. 82 Marriot, Richard 29, 50, 55, 60, 61, 82, ic6 Matthewes, Augustin 15, 16, 19, 34, 36, 39, 40, 76 Maxey, Thomas 50 Meredith, Christopher 23 Milbourne, Robert 28a More, Richard 4, 5, 7 Moseley, Humphrey 27, 45, 46, 48 Newcomb, Thomas 31, 32, 45, 46, 60, 61, ■ „ Okes, Nicholas 4, 5, 153 P., M. 28b Purslowe, Elizabeth 43, 44 Redmer, Richard 24 Royston, Richard 29, 30, 40 S., W. 70 Saunders, Francis 62 Seyle, Henry 43, 44 Sheares, William 8, 9 Stafford, John 28b Stansby, William 1, 12, 13, 77 Stephens, Philemon 23 Sweeting, John 56, 83, 152 T., I. 168 Taylor, W. 86 Thorppe, Thomas 69 Tonson, J. 8 6 Villerianus, Thomas 3 White, Robert 149 Wright, M. 149 J. D. 161 INDEX The numbers refer to the pagination Aberyhatch, letters from Donne at 78 — 80, 114 Acts, i. 8, sermon on 22, 23 Addington, Mr Samuel, miniature in possession of 123 Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, books in the 6, 66, 80 Alais, W. J., engraving by 123, 158 Alford, Henry, Donne's Works edited by 38 All Souls College, Oxford 34, 42, 54, 66, 113, 119 Almanack, Bretnor's 100 Amiens, letters from Donne at 78 — 80, 88, 114 Anderdon, J. H., MSS. in possession of 88 Anderson, R., Poems edited by 121 Andrews, Dr, latin letter to 114 Ankerum, Earl of, letter to 75 Anniversaries 93 — 10 1 Arber's Transcripts 105 — 106 Argosy, article in 138 Aspley, Master, licence granted by 106 Autograph, John Donne's 154 — 155 B., Mr R., elegy by 112 Babbott, Mr F. L., introduction by 124 Barlowe, D., Answer to The Judgment of a Catholike Englishman 4 Barrett, Dr, portrait in possession of 158 Bartlett, Miss H. C. 14, 42, 115, 117 Basse, William, epitaph on Shakespeare 109 Beaumont, Francis, Poems 109 Bedford, Lady, elegy to 1 1 1 letters to 75, 76, 1 1 1 verses to 108, 1 18 Beeching, Canon H. C, article by 140 Bell's edition of the Poems 1 2 1 Biathanatos 59 — 66 Binyon, Mr Laurence 113 Biography and criticism 135 — 141 Bodleian Library, Oxford, books in the 6, 11, 15, 16, 21, 23, 24, 26, 28, 34, 35, 37, 44, 54, 57, 65, 70, 80, 98, 100, 113, 115, 116, 118, 132, i49> x 5°, l 5 z Bohemia, Queen of, letters to 41, 82, 83 Book of Ayres, Corkine's 92, 110 Booksellers, 1607 — 171 9, see p. 161 Boston, Poems published at 122 Boulstred, Mrs, elegy on 114 verses to 107 Boys, John, reference to Pseudo-martyr 4 Bray, William, Imprimatur signed by 45 Bretnor, Thomas, Almanack 100 British Museum, books in the 6, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 31, 32, 34, 35, 37, 42, 44, 45, 54, 5 6 , 57, 65, 66, 70, 80, 81, 84, 85, 98, 100, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 121, 132, 149, 150, 152, 153, 155, 156 Brogden, James, Illustrations of the Liturgy 3 1 Brooke, Basil, verses to 108 Brooke, Christopher, verses to 107, 108 Brooke, Rupert, articles by 141 Brooke, Samuel, verses to 108 Brown, Thomas, Imprimatur signed by 33 Browne, Thomas, elegy by 1 1 1 Browne, Sir T., elegy ascribed to 1 1 1 Browne, William, poem by 121 Brussels, letter from Donne at 77 Brydges, Sir G., letter to 77, 78 Buckingham, Duke of, dedication to 21 letters to 41, 81, 82, 87, 88 Cabala 8 1 Cambridge, Six sermons printed at 29 Cambridge History of English Literature 1 40 Camden Society 87 Campbell, Thomas, Poems edited by 122 Canterbury, Archbishop of, letter to 83 Canterbury Cathedral library 116, 118 Carew, Lady, verses to 108 Index 163 Carew, Sir Lucius, elegy by 112 Carew, Sir Nicholas, letter to 88 Carew, Thomas, elegy by 112 Carey, Carie, see Carew Carleton, Sir Dudley, letter to 87 Carlile, Lucy, Countess of, dedication to 82 Carlile, Lord, letter from 83 Carre, see Ker Carter, The Rt Rev. Edward, letter to, from John Donne, jun. 62 Causton, H. K., Walton's Life published by 133 Chadwick, J. W., article by 139 Chalmers, Alexander, Poems edited by 122 Chambers, E. K., Poems edited by 124 Characters, Overbury's 92 Charles I, first sermon preached to 24 Charles II, dedications to 33, 36 Charles, Prince of Wales, dedication to 42 Chelsea, Sermon of commemoration preached at 26 Chelsea, letter from Donne at 8 8 Chew, Mr Beverley, library of 42, 115, 117 Chilsey, see Chelsea Christ Church, Oxford 31, 34, 35, 44, 57, 66, 70, 80, 113, 116, 118, 119 Christ's College, Cambridge 34, 35, 37, 66, H3. 115 Chudleigh, I., elegy by 115 Clare College, Cambridge 66, 113 Clarendon Press, Poems published by 125 Clint, G., portrait by 158 Cockain, Mrs, letters to 80, 84 Collier, W. F., biographical sketch by 138 Cologne, letter from Donne at 84 Compleat Angler, Walton's 109 Conclave Ignati 7 — 16 Constable, Henry, poem by 115 Contemplative Man's Library 133 Conway, Secretary, letter to 8 8 Cook, engraving by 121 Corbet, Dr, elegy by 1 1 1, 132 Corkine, William, Book of Ayres 92 Cornelius, Lucius, Monarchia Solipsorum 1 6 Corpus Christi College, Cambridge 80, 1 1 3 Corpus Christi College, Oxford 6, 15, 44, 54, 66, 113 Coryat's Crudities, verses on 91 — 92, 116 Cotton, Robert, letters to 87 — 88 Courthope, W. J., essay by 140 Covent Garden, petition of 149 Crashaw, Richard, verses by 85 Craven, Lord, dedication to 117 Crawford, Charles, articles by 140 Crudities, Coryat's 91 — 92, 116 Cunningham, G. G., life by 137 Daniel, device representing 34 Darners, Lady, Sermon of Commemoration of 26 Darnelly, Daniel, elegy by 115 Davison, Francis, verses by 109 Death's Duell 27 — 29 Denby, Basil, Earl of, dedication to 35 Devotions 39 — 46 Doncaster, Lord, letters from 83 verses to 108 Done, John, works by 151 — 153 Donne, John, D.C.L. 145— 150 Biathanatos edited by 62 — 65 Essays in Divinity edited by 69 — 70 Ignatius his Conclave edited by 9, 54 — 56 Juvenilia edited by 50, 51, 54 — 57 Letters edited by 73 — 74 letters from 62 — 63 Poems edited by 106, 117 Sermons edited by 1 9 Tobie Matthew collection edited b . 82, 86 T-iventy-six sermons published bv 36 — 3S Dorset, Earl of, letter to, with Devotions 4 1 Dover, Earl of, dedication to 152 Dowden, Edward, article by 138 library of 19, 105 Dowland, John, verses by 119 Droeshout, Martin, engraving by 28, 158 Drummond of Hawthornden, Conversations nuith Ben Jonson 140 Drury, Elizabeth 95 — 10 1 Drury House, letter from Donne at 8 8 Drury, Sir Robert, letter to 77 Dum premor, attollor, motto on device 37 Duncan, A., engraving by 158 Dunch, Mrs Bridget, dedication to 74 Dunne, Mr S. G. 62 Dutch, translations into 41, 106, 119 — 120 Dyce collection, portrait in 157 Ecclesiastes, xii. 1, sermon on (Sapientia Clami- tans) 3 1 Edinburgh Magazine, article in 138 Effigies Poeticae, portrait in 158 Egerton, Sir Thomas, letters to 87 Eighty Sermons 33 — 34 Elizabeth, Queen, verses ascribed to 115 Ellesmere, Lord, library of 96 Emmanuel College, Cambridge 6, 24. \ 35, 54, 65, 118, 152 Encania 2 2 Epigrams, Ben Jonson 's 56 Epigrams, Donne's 50 Essays in Divinity 50, 67 — 70 Estienne, copy of device used by 54 164 hide, x F., Sir G., letter to 76 Ferris, S. J., etching by 124 Fifty sermons 34 Fish, Henry C, History and Repository of Pulpit Eloquence 3 3 Fitzherbert, Thomas, reply to Pseudo-martyr 4 Five sermons upon speciall occasions 25 Fleete, letters from Donne with the 87 Fortnightly Review, article in 138, 139 Foure sermons upon speciall occasions 24 Fuller Worthies Library 123 Furst, Clyde, essay by 139 Gammon, James, engraving by 82 Garet, Garrard, see Gerrard Genesis, i. 26, two sermons on 31 Gerrard, George, letters to 74 — 81, 86, 114 Gerrard, Mrs Martha, letter to 75 Gherard, see Gerrard Godolphin, Sidney, elegy by 115 Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 6, 113, 118 Goodere, see Goodyer Goodyer, Sir Henry, letters to 75 — 81, 86, 88, in verses to 108 Gordon, Mr Cosmo, library of 119, 121 Gosse, Mr Edmund, article by 138 essay on Death's Duel 138 library of 6, 15, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 34, 35, 37, 44, 54, 57, 65, 70, 80, 84, 85, 98, 113, 116, 118, 119, 153, 156 Life and Letters edited by 139 Gossip in a Library, by Edmund Gosse 138 Grierson, Prof. H. J. C, essay by 140 Letters, projected edition of 73 Poems edited by 125 Grolier Club Catalogue 49 Poems published by 123 Grosart, Dr A. B., his copy of Biathanatos 63 Poems edited by 123 Grove, Robert, Papismus Regiae Potestatis Eversor 16 Grymes, The Lady, letter to 78, 114 Gryphius, copy of device used by 29 H., F., letter to 78 H., G., letter to 78 Haines, Mr 88 Hall, Joseph 95 Hamilton, Marquess, verses to 109 Hanau, Conclave Ignati printed at 12 Harbert, Lord Philip, see Herbert Harington, Sir John, letter to 76 Harrison, J. S., references by 140 Harvard University, library of 117 Hastings, George, letter to 76 Hay, Lord, letters to 83, 84 Heber Library Catalogue 63 Henry, Prince of Wales, elegy on 92, 109 Herbert, Edward, Lord, of Cherbury, letter to 75 MS. of Biathanatos presented to 62 verses to 108 Herbert, George, commemorations of the Lady Danvers by 26 latin verses by 117 letters written by 84. verses to 117 Walton's Life of 84 — 85 Herbert, Sir Henry, Juvenilia licensed by 49, 52 Poems licensed by 105 — 106 Herbert, Magdalen, letters to 85 verses to 108 Herbert, Philip, Lord, dedication to 65 Hilliard, Nicholas, portrait by 113 History of the Septuagint 152 — 153 Hodgson's, books sold at 98 Hoe Library 98, 100 Holbrooke, F., portrait in possession of 38, 158 Holl, W., engraving by 38, 158 Hollar, Wenceslaus, engraving by 158 Holme, Mr Strachan 96 Holt, Sir Robert, dedication to 132 Hosea, ii. 19, sermon on 31 Huntingdon, Countess of, verses to 108, 114 Hutchinson, Rev. F. E., article by 140 Huth Library 98 Huyghens, Sir Constantine, Biathanatos presented to 63 translations by 41, 106, 119 — 120 Hyde, Edward, elegy by 28, in Iconography of Donne 157 — 158 Ignatius his Conclave 7 — 16, 56 Isaiah, 1. 1, sermon on 25 Italian inscription used by Donne 155 Jackson, Thomas, Dean of Peterborough, ser- mons by 32 James I, dedication to 3, 25 Jameson, Mrs A. M., article by 137 Janssen, Cornelius, portrait ascribed to 157 Jessopp, Dr Augustus, Essays in Divinity edited by 70 Life by 139 note on John Done 150 Jesuits, apology for 11 — 16 preface addressed to 6 Index i6 5 Jesus College, Cambridge 26, 28, 31, 54, 1 1 S, »53 John, v. 22, sermon on 31 viii. 15, sermon on 31 x. 22, sermon on (Enctenia) 23 John Rylands Library, Manchester 54, 66, 113 Johnson, Samuel, English poets 122 Lives of the Poets 137 Jonson, Ben, Conversations with Drummond of Hawthornden 1 40 letter from 83 lines by 55 — 57, 117, 118 Underwoods 1 1 1 verses to 91, 114, 117 Volpone 9 1 Works 9 2 Judges, v. 20, sermon on 21 xx. 15, sermon on 21 Juvenilia 47 — 57 Keeble, Richard, address to 35 Ker, Sir Robert, letters to 41, 75 — 80, 83 MS. of Biathanatos presented to 62 proofs of Devotions sent to 41 Keynes, Mr G. L., library of 6, 22, 23, 25, 29> 3 : > 34> 35» 38, 44» 54i 5 6 > 66 - 70, 80, 84, 100, 113, 118, 119, 132, 153 Keynes, Mr J. M., library of 34, 35, 66, 80 King, Alice, article by 138 King, Henry, elegy by 28, in, 132 King's College, Cambridge 14, 34, 35, 66, 119 Kingsmell, Lady, Biathanatos presented to 62 letters to 75, 81, 82 Kinsmoll, The Rt Hon. the, see Kingsmell, Lady L., Mr T., verses to 108 Lachryma Lachrymarum, Sylvester's 92 Lawyer's Philosophy, Tisdale's 156 Lee, Mr, letter to, from John Donne, jun. 62 Leile, John, address to 35 Leisure Hour, article in 138 Letters, Donne's 71 — 88 Letters to several persons of honour 74 — 80 Library, books from Donne's 154 — 155 Lightfoot, Dr J. B., article by 138 Lincoln Cathedral Library 28, 31, 34, 44, 54, 66, 1 13 Lincoln's Inn, sermon preached at 22 Llewellyn, M., Men-Miracles 120 Lombart, Pieter, engraving by 74, 158 Loseley MSS., letters from 86 — 88 Lothersley, see Loseley Lowell, J. R., Poems edited by 123 Loyola, Ignatius 14 Lucy, Sir Thomas, letters to 75, 77 McKerrow's Printers' and Publishers' Devices 2 9> 34, 37, 54, 152 Macleane, Douglas, Famous Sermons by English Preachers 34 Maestricht, letter from Donne at 87 Magdalene College, Cambridge 6, 66, 80, 115 Marckham, J., Biathanatos presented to 63 Marckham, Lady, elegy on 107 Marion Press, Poems printed by 124 Marshall, William, engravings by 45, 1 1 3, 157—158 Marten, Sir Henry, letter to 88 Matthew, xxi. 64, sermon on 31 Matthew, Sir Tobie, Collection of letters 73, 82— S 4 , 86 letter to 84 Mayne, Jasper, D.D. 5c, 54 Mayne, Mr, elegy by 112 Melton, W. F., essay by 140 Merian, M., engraving by 33, 158 Merrill, C. S., Letters edited by 88 Merton, Mr Wilfred, MSS. in possession of 19, 105 Merton College, Oxford 23, 26, 31, 34, 35, 66, 119 Meynell, Mr Everard, book offered by 155 Micham, letters from Donne at 75 — 80 Milbourne, William, sermons published by 32 Minto, W., article by 138 Modern Language Review, article in 141 Montgomery, Countess of, letter to 75 Moore, Rev. Charles, a refutation of Biathanatos by 63 More, Sir George, letters to 76, 86 — 87 More, Sir Robert, letters to 87 — 8S Morhof, D. G., Polyhistor 41, 120, 137 Moseley, Humphrey, advertises Epigrams 50 Mother, Donne's, letter to 83 Nation, article in 141 National Review, article in 139 New College, Oxford 6, 34, 35 New Review, article in 13S New World, article in 139 Newport, Francis, Lord, dedication to 55 Nineteenth Century, article in 13S Norton, C. E., article by 1 3 s Poems annotated by 1 1 j Notes and Queries, articles in 139. 1 . Oliver, Isaac, miniature bj 123, 158 Overbury, Sir Thomas, Characters 92 i66 Indt ex Oxford, Devotions published at 46 MSS. preserved at 32, 51, 62, 75, 88, 151 Poems published at 125 Selections published at 122 Palatine, Count, verses on 108 Paradoxes, Problems, Essays 54 — 57 Paris, letters from Donne at 76, 78, 79 Parker, Samuel, Imprimatur signed by 85 Parsons, see Persons Pearson, Mr John, library of 98 Peckham, letter from Donne at 77 Pembroke and Ruddier, Poems by 114, 148 Pembroke College, Cambridge 22, 23, 24, 25, 29> 3 1 , 45> II8 Walton's copies of sermons in 20 Pembroke, Earl of, poems by 114 Pepys library 66, 119 Persons, Robert, The Judgment of a Catholike Englishman 4 2 Peter, iii. 13, sermon on 26 Peterborough Cathedral Library 15, 34 Peterhouse, Cambridge 34 Phillips, Edward, Theatrum Poetarum 1 3 7 Pickering, William, Devotions published by 46 Pickering and Chatto, books offered by 37, i54 Poems, Collected 103 — 125 Poems, MSS. of 105 Poetry and Drama, article in 141 Polydoron 152 Polyhistor, Morhof's 41, 120, 137 Pope, Alexander, Works 121 Porter, Endymion, epitaph by 112 Printers, 1607 — 17 19, see p. 161 Printers and Publishers Devices, McKerrow's 29* 34> 37> 54. 152 Psalm xi. 3, sermon on 24 lxviii. 20, sermon on (Death's duell) 28 Pseudo-martyr 1 — 6 Publishers, 1607 — 1719, see p. 161 Puttick and Simpson's, letters sold at 73 Pyrford, letters from Donne at 78 Quarterly Review, articles in 139 Queens' College, Cambridge 6 Raleigh, Sir Walter, problem concerning 5 1 Riche, Mrs Essex, verses to 108 Richter, Rudolph, essay by 139 Riverside Press, Poems printed by 124 Rochester, Lord, letters to 79, 83 Roe, Sir John, poems by 114, 119 Roe, Sir Thomas, letters to 75, 78, 88 verses to 114 Rush worth, John, Imprimatur signed by 65 St Catharine's College, Cambridge 66 St John's College, Cambridge 6, 23, 24, 26,. 28, 34, 45, 54, 65, 80, 113, 116, 118, 119 St John's College, Oxford 6, 66, 113 St Paul's Cathedral, emgy in 157 Deanery, letters from Donne at 8 8 portrait at 157 Saintsbury, George, introduction by' 124 Salisbury Cathedral library 6, 16, 34, 80 Salisbury, Countess of, verses to 108 Sanders, H. M., article by 139 Sanford, Ezekiel, Poems edited by 122 Sapientia Clamitans 31 Satyr, Donne's 149 Savoy, letter from Donne at his lodging in the 86, 88 Sayle, Mr C, library of 121 Schoff, S. A., engraving by 122 Sermons, Donne's 17 — 38 Shakespeare, epitaph on 109 Shakespearean miscellany, ed. Waldron 1 2 1 Simeon, Sir John, poems printed by 123 Simpson, Rev. S., MS. in possession of 88 Simson, G., device used by 34 Six sermons upon severall occasions 29 — 31 Skelton, engraving by 158 Smyth, Sir Nicholas, verses to 119 Somerset, Earl of, letters to 79, 83 Sotheby's, books sold at 98 Southey, Robert, Poems edited by 122 Spa, letter from Donne at 79 Spanish, Donne's use of 6, 77, 113 Spearing, Miss E. M., articles by 140, 141 note by 19 Star Chamber, Board of the 49 Stationers' Hall registers 105 — 106 Stephen, Sir Leslie, article by 139 Stone, Nicholas, effigy by 157 Strand, letters from Donne at his lodging in the 75. 76 Suicide, A full enquiry into the subject of, by Rev. Charles Moore 63 Suicide, Donne's essay on 59 — 66 Sylvester, Joshua, Lachryma Lachrymarum 92 Symons, Arthur, article by 139 Talboys, D. A., Devotions published by 46 Selections published by 122 Temple Bar, article in 139 Theatrum Poetarum 137 Thompson, Mrs K. B., article by 138 Three sermons upon speciall occasions 23 Index 167 Tilman, Mr, verses to 115 Times Literary Supplement, article in 141 Tisdale, Roger, dedication to Donne 156 Tomlins, T. E., Walton's Life edited by 133 Tregaskis, Mr, books offered by 155 Trinity College, Cambridge 6, 23, 24, 28, 31, 34> 4 2 > 45' 54> 5 6 > 66 > 7°, 80, 113, 116, 119, 121, 132, 150 Trost, Wilhelm, essay by 140 Tupling, John, Essays in Divinity published by 70 Tutin, J. R., Selected Poems published by 124 Twenty-six sermons 35 — 38 Underwoods, Ben Jonson's 1 1 1 University Library, Cambridge, books in the 6, 12, 14, 15, 22, 23, 25, 26, 31, 32, 34, 35, 37, 42, 44, 54, 65, 84, 85, 86, 113, 1 15, 121, 152^ '53 Valentine, Henry, elegy by in Vandyke, portrait attributed to 38, 158 Victoria and Albert Museum, portrait at 157 Virginian Plantation, sermon preached to Honour- able Company of the 22, 23 Volpone, Ben Jonson's 9 1 Waldron, F. G., poems printed by 121 Walton, Canon Izaak, autograph of 80 Walton, Izaak, autograph of 20, 29, ji, 34, 80 Compleat Angler 109 elegy by 1 1 1 Life of Donne 33, 46, 127 — 133 Life of Herbert 84 — 85 verses by 113 verses to 83 Warner, Rebecca, Epistolary Curiosities 109 White, R., engraving by 85 White, Mr W. A., library of [4 White, Mrs Bridget, letters to 75 Whitehall, sermon preached at 25 Whitlock, Bolstred, address to 35 Will, Donne's 150 Wilson, Arthur, elegy by 112 Wisdome crying out to Sinners {Sapientia Clami- tans) 3 2 Wit and Drollery 1 1 9 Wolf, Henry, wood engraving by 124 Woodforde, Samuel, verses by S5 Woodward, Rowland, Pseudo-martyr presented to 6 verses to 108 Woodward, Thomas, verses to 108 Worcester Cathedral library 34, 35, 37 Wotton, Sir Henry, letters to 76, 77 verses to 107, 108 Zouch, Thomas, Walton's Li-ues edited by 1 30 CAMBRIDGE : PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A. AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS MCMXIV 5909 |tf* b ^ 931 This book is DUE on the last date stamped below MAY 3 1 193^ m pEV DEC 6 194S OCT 2 5 1952; DEC 18 1952 JANi3l9K 19 ^ 'JUL 2 4 1962 IWflR *3AN 1 8 1937 JAN 4 1938 FEB 2 9 1938" DEC 3 Form L-9-35m-8,'28 :•■.-..- .EC 2 WW 9 I968 un RENEWAL MAR 3 APR 2> B7ff* UEO'p tO- •4AN29197 ISA RECD LD-UKB SEP 2 8 1989 J 1970 AA 001 168 299 4 I o = *3 PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE THIS BOOK CARD A^tUBRARYtf/ . < University Research Library roKm*