John Donne and the Theology of Language, edited by P. G. Stanwood and Heather Ross Asals. University of Missouri Press, Columbia, 1986 - first edition. ISBN 0-8262-0477-5. Selected passages from Donne's sermons on his theory of language - the language of Scripture and of devotional literature - grouped by theological subject with introductions, notes, and a glossary, so that the theological and rhetorical underpinnings of early seventeenth-century poetry and prose can be studied together. Out of print and scarce in hardcover.

Provenance: from the personal library of the historian William Brown Patterson - scholar of the English Reformation and author of King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom (Cambridge) and William Perkins and the Making of a Protestant England (Oxford) - with his bookplate on the front pastedown; one of several books from his library offered here.

Condition: VERY GOOD. Hardcover in maroon cloth, in the original grey-blue dust jacket with the Donne portrait, unclipped and housed in a removable mylar protector. Binding tight and square; cloth clean; text clean and unmarked throughout. Jacket lightly toned; foxing to the page edges and endpapers. Patterson's bookplate as noted.

Ships promptly and boxed via USPS Media Mail. Please see photos - they form part of the description.