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Anatomy of the World. Wherein by occasion of the untimely death of Mistris Elizabeth Drury, the Frailty and the Decay of this whole world is represented, London, printed for Samuel Machan, and are to be solde at his shop in Paules Churchyard, at the Signe of the Bulhead, An.Dom.1611,’18mo,16 leaves. This was reprinted next year with the same title, and with it was issued 4. ‘The Second Anniversarie of the Progress of the Soule. Wherein, by Occasion of the Religious Death of Mistris Elizabeth Drury, the incommodities of the Soule in this life and her exaltation in the next are Contemplated,’ London, printed (as before) 1612. 5. Another edition of the two Poems was published in 1621. ‘Printed by A. Mathewes for Tho. Dewe, and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstans Churchyard in Fleetestreete, 1621.’ 6. Another ‘Printed by W. Stansby for Tho. Dewe.… 1625.’ 7. ‘A Sermon upon the xv. verse of the xx. chapter of the Booke of Judges.… Preached at Paul's Cross the 15th of September 1622,’ 4to, printed by W. Stansby, as before. Prefixed to this sermon is an epistle ‘To the Right Honorable George, Marquesse of Buckingham, &c.’ 8. ‘A Sermon upon the viii. verse of the i. chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, preached to the Honourable Company of the Virginian Plantation, 13 Novemb. 1622,’ A. Mat. for T. Jones, London, 1623, 4to. Prefixed is an epistle ‘To the Honourable Companie of the Virginian Plantation.’ There is a ‘Prayer at the end of the Sermon.’ This sermon was reissued with a new title-page in 1624. 9. 'Encænia. The Feast of Dedication. Celebrated At Lincolnes Inne, in a Sermon there upon Ascension Day, 1623. At the Dedication of a new Chappell there, Consecrated by the Right Reverend Father in God, the Bishop of London… ,’ 4to, 1623. There is an epistle ‘To the Masters of the Bench, and the rest of the Honourable Societie of Lincolnes Inne,’ and a ‘Prayer before the Sermon.’ 10. ‘The First Sermon Preached to King Charles, At Saint James, 3 April 1625. By John Donne, Deane of Saint Paul's, London. Printed by A. M. for Thomas Jones, … 1625,’ 4to. 11. ‘A Sermon, Preached to the King's M^tie At Whitehall, 24 Feb. 1625[-6]. By John Donne, Deane of Saint Paul's, London. And now by his Maiestes command Published. London, Printed for Thomas Jones, dwelling at the Blacke Raven in the Strand, 1625,’ 4to, with an epistle ‘To His Sacred Maiestie.’ The first four of these sermons were collected into a volume and issued under the title ‘Foure Sermons upon Speciall Occasions.… By John Donne, Deane of St. Paul's, London,’ in 1625. All five were collected next year into a volume entitled ‘Five Sermons upon Special Occasions.’ In this collection there are slight corrections indicating that one sermon at least had been kept in type. It is a curious fact that three of these sermons (9, 10, 11) have never been reprinted, either in the folios or in Alfords edition of Donne's ‘Works.’ 12. ‘A Sermon of Commemoration of the Lady Dàvers.… Together with other Commemorations of her by her sonne G. Herbert.… Printed by I. H. for P. Stephens and C. Meredith, London, 1627,’ 12mo. There is a copy in the British Museum. It is exceedingly rare. 13. ‘Death's Duell, or, A Consolation to the Soule, against the dying Life, and living Death of the Body. Delivered in a Sermon, at White-Hall, before the King's Maiestie, in the beginning of Lent, 1630. By that late Learned and Reverend Divine, John Donne, Dr. in Divinity, and Deane of S. Paul's, London. Being his last Sermon, and called by his Maiesties houshold The Doctor's Owne Funeral Sermon. London, Printed by B. Alsop and T. Fawcet, for Beniamin Fisher, and are to be sold at the Signe of the Talbot in Aldersgate Street, mdcxxxiii,’ 4to, pp. 32, with ‘An Elegie on Doctor Donne, and An Epitaph on Doctor Donne.’ Both are anonymous. 14. ‘Six Sermons upon Several Occasions, Preached before the King, and elsewhere. By that late learned and reverend Divine John Donne.… Printed by the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge.…’ 4to, 1634. These are included in the first folio. They appear to have been sold separately, as they all have separate titles. 15. ‘LXXX. Sermons.’ Commonly described as ‘the first folio,’ published by his son with an elaborate frontispiece containing a portrait of Donne in an ecclesiastical habit, ætat. 42, and an ‘Epistle Dedicatorie to Charles I, by John Donne the younger,’ together with Izaak Walton's life of Donne, then published for the first time. The license to print is dated 29 Nov. 1639, the title is dated 1640. 16. ‘Fifty Sermons, Preached by that learned and reverend Divine John Donne, Dr. in Divinity, Late Deane of the Cathedrall Church of S. Paul's, London. The Second Volume.… Folio, 1649.’ There is a dedication to Basil, earl of Denbigh, and an epistle to Whitlock, Keeble, and Leile, commissioners of the great seal, in which the younger Donne acknowledges that he had lately received ‘the reward that many years since was proposed for the publishing these sermons.’ 17. ‘Six-and-twenty Sermons never before published,’ London, 1660, folio. Issued by his son as before. The volume is printed with extra-