NMLP P-041309 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19
Poems, by J.D. With Elegies on the Authors Death
John Donne · John Marriot, London (printed by Miles Flesher) · 1633
The single decisive point is format: the 1633 is a small quarto and carries no portrait, whereas every later seventeenth-century edition (1635, 1639, 1649, 1650, 1654, 1669) is an octavo and, from 1635 onward, carries William Marshall's engraved portrait of Donne at eighteen
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-041309 for "Poems, by J.D. With Elegies on the Authors Death" by John Donne (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041309, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).