Essayes in divinity; by the late Dr Donne, Dean of St Paul's. Being several disquisitions, interwoven with meditations and prayers: before he entred into holy orders. Now made publick by his son J. D. Dr of the civil law.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Donne, John, 1572-1631

Contributor:

Donne, John, 1604-1662.

Series:

Thomason Tracts ; 179:E.13621.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity--Early works to 1800.

Christianity.

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 224 pages

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by T. M. for Richard Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St Dunstan's Church-yard Fleet-street, 1651.

Notes:

Signatures: A⁶ chi² B-K¹² L⁴.

Signatures from Keynes.

Contents: A1 title; A2a-6b dedication to Sr H. Vane Junior signed John Donne (A2 with sig. A3, A2-6 usually cancelled in whole or part); chi1a-b To the Reader, unsigned; chi2 blank (usually cancelled); B1a-K11a (pp. 1-213) Essayes in Divinity; K11b-L4b (pp. 214-24) Prayers. Cf. Keynes.

'When the younger Donne decided to make the Juvenilia more respectable by adding the Essayes in Divinity he felt he must try to suppress his dedication to Sir Henry Vane with .. confusing results' -- Keynes. Copies lacking any and all leaves of dedication are not imperfect.

Annotation on Thomason copy: "Jan: 1st".

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1978. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Thomason Tracts ; 179:E.1362[1]). s1978 miun a

Cited in:

Wing (2nd ed., 1994) D1861.

Keynes, G. Bibl. of John Donne, 50.

Thomason E.1362[1].

OCLC:

61380740