DEATH BE NOT PROUD
DONNE, John.
Poems … with Elegies on the authors Death …
London, Printed by M.F. for John Marriot, and are to be sold at his Shop … 1635.
8vo, pp. [12], 388, [32], wanting the portrait frontispiece; title-page stained and with old repairs (touching one letter), lightly toned throughout; bound in contemporary calf, rebacked; some wear to corners and spine; inscription on verso of title-page ‘5. Apr: 1711 / Ant Hammond'.
Second edition, adding seventeen new poems by Donne (and eleven false attributions), and three more elegies on his death.
‘Immediately after his death Donne's greatness was celebrated by a host of poets ... Writers such as John Marston, Jonson, Henry King, Richard Corbet, Thomas Carew, Lucius Carey, Jasper Mayne, Sidney Godolphin, and, of course, Izaak Walton joined in praising Donne's skill as poet, divine, and versatile intellectual’ (ODNB). The poems have been rearranged into sections, headed ‘Songs and Sonets [sic]’, ‘Elegies’, ‘Epithalamions’. ‘Satyres’, and ‘Letters’, ‘Divine Poems’, etc. Two poems that had appeared in 1633 are omitted – Browne’s elegy and Basse’s ‘Epitaph upon Shakespeare’.
Provenance: with the 1711 ownership inscription of Anthony Hammond, presumably the poet and politician (1668–1738/9).
ESTC S1701; STC 7046; Keynes 79.
