Poems, by J.D. With Elegies on the Authors Death

London 1633 is the true and only first edition of the collected Poems; there is no UK/US or original-language precedence question, since Donne was English and the book is posthumous (he died in 1631). The census claim is confirmed. Two precedence traps are worth publishing. First, the Anniversaries were the only poems separately published in Donne's lifetime — "An Anatomy of the World" (London, printed for Samuel Macham, 1611; STC 7022) is his first published poem and an institutional rarity; the Roxburghe Club issued a facsimile of it in 1951 with a postscript by Keynes, and that facsimile is regularly mistaken for the original. Second, the 1635 second edition is the first to group the poems into the familiar generic sections (Songs and Sonnets first, Divine Poems last) and adds "Farewell to Love," "A Lecture upon the Shadow" and "A Dialogue between Sir Henry Wotton and Mr Donne" — a "first thus" only. The 1669 seventh edition is the first to print Donne's name in full on the title page and to note him as late Dean of St Paul's.