John Donne, Dean of St Paul's, Complete Poetry and Selected Prose (The Nonesuch Library)

xxiv, 796pp. In deep red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. Thick 12mo. Boards just a little rounded at corners and spine ends, strip faded along top edge. Text block edges lightly toned. Some toning on endpapers; previous owner's name, dated 1948, on front free endpaper, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring a stain on p102, where it would appear a flower has pressed between the leaves. Issued as part of the Nonesuch Library, a series of books designed to give, by clever editing and critical apparatus, a true conspectus of certain great writers in one volume and, by proper planning of the physical elements of the book, to give it in a form both handy and handsome.