DONNE, John (1572-1631). The Holy Sonnets, London, 1938, 8vo, 4 illustrations by Eric Gill, original black buckram gilt, inscribed to Clarissa Churchill by "Bluey". ONE OF 550 COPIES SIGNED BY ERIC GILL. With 5 other related works in 10 volumes. (11)

DONNE, John (1572-1631). The Holy Sonnets, London, 1938, 8vo, 4 illustrations by Eric Gill, original black buckram gilt, inscribed to Clarissa Churchill by "Bluey". ONE OF 550 COPIES SIGNED BY ERIC GILL. With 5 other related works in 10 volumes. (11)

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DONNE, John (1572-1631).  The Holy Sonnets. Introduction by Hugh I' A. Fausset. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd for Hague & Gill Ltd., 1938. Large 8vo (233 x 150mm). 4 full-page wood-engraved illustrations by Eric Gill, printer's woodcut clover ornament at the end (the last two leaves very lightly browned). Original black buckram lettered and decorated in gilt, uncut. Provenance: "Clarissa Churchill, Christmas 1928, from Bluey" (inscription on the front free endpaper; for further information on the provenance, please see lot 423). ONE OF 550 COPIES SIGNED BY ERIC GILL. Gill Bibliography 298. With 5 other works in 10 volumes, namely Plato's Republic (London, Arthur L. Humphreys, 1898, 2 volumes, 4to, later vellum-backed boards, INSCRIBED BY THE PUBLISHER TO ANTHONY EDEN), Plutarch's The Lives and the Noble Grecians & Romans (London, The Nonesuch Press, 1929, 5 volumes, 4to, illustrations by T. L. Poulton, original tan buckram, NUMBER 193 OF 2,000 COPIES), John Donne's Love Poems ... With some account of his life taken from the writings in 1639 of Izaak Walton (London, The Nonesuch Press, 1923, folio, frontispiece, original vellum-backed decorated boards, inscribed, twice, in pencil on the front free endpaper, "'And so I 'scape the pain For Pain is true'" - C. from J, 1938" [almost certainly inscribed to Clarissa Churchill by John Churchill], NUMBER 148 OF 1,250 COPIES), Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Selected Poems, edited by Stephen Potter (London, The Nonesuch Press, 1935, folio, title vignette by Berthold Wolpe, 3 plates by Stefan Mrozewski, original limp orange vellum gilt, NUMBER 6 OF 500 COPIES) and David Jones' The Anathemata. Fragments of an Attempted Writing ... Second edition (London, 1955, 8vo, original tan buckram, without a dust-jacket, PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, "For Clarissa, from David [Jones], April 24 1956." (9)