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Bibliographical Description of the 1654 Prose Letters

LETTERS [Wing D 1865] first edition, second issue (TxAM copy)             4° 1654

Title: Letters to Severall Persons Of Honour: . . . London, Printed by J. Flesher, and are to be sold by John Sweeting, at the Angel in Popeshead-Alley.  1654. (See  title page.)

Collation: A⁴ B–Z⁴; 164 leaves.

Contents: A1r blank; A1v frontispiece; A2 title; A3r–A4v The Epistle Dedicatory To the most virtuous and excellent Lady M^ris. Bridget Dunch signed Jo. Donne [jun.]; B1r-Ss3v (pp. 1-318) text; Ss4 blank. (See First-Line Index of letters.)

Frontispiece: A bust of Donne at the age of 49 within an oval, 12 x 9.5 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.  The engraving is signed at the right-hand bottom corner:  Lombart sculp. A londre. (See frontispiece.)

Note: This issue is constituted of the same sheets as in the 1651 Letters (Wing D 1864), with cancel title-page.

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