John Donne Poems, with Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Engravings (The Franklin Library)

431 pp. 8vo. Red leather spine, red cloth boards, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, red ribbon marker bound in. A collection of poems, edited by Sir Herbert Grierson, with reproductions of 16th and 17th century engravings, a brief introduction regarding these illustrations, and the following explanatory notes: The Printer to the Understanders; Hexastichon Bibliopolae; Hexastichon ad Bibliopolam; Dedication to the Edition of 1650; To John Donne, Donne, the delight of Phoebus; To Lucy, Countesse of Bedford, with M. Donnes Satyres, Lucy, you brightnesse of our spheare; To John Donne. Who shall doubt, Donne. Elegies upon the author and an index of first lines follow text. "This collection of Donne's work runs the gamut of the poet's many areas of brilliance: from love songs to religious hymns, from heartfelt elegies to holy sonnets. It includes some of his best-loved poems, including "Goe, and catche a falling starre," Loves Growthe" and "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," as well as his religious and philosophical musings. Includes poems read in their entirety as well as unabridged extracts."