Only a very few copies of this edition were issued. W. C. Hazlitt describes one in his _Bibliographical Collections, &c._, _Second Series_ (1882), p. 181. The only copy of whose existence I am aware is in the Library of Harvard College. It was used by Professor Norton in preparing the Grolier Club edition, and I owe my knowledge of it to this and to a careful description made for me by Miss Mary H. Buckingham. The title-page is here reproduced. POEMS, _By_ J. D. WITH ELEGIES ON THE AUTHORS DEATH. [Illustration] _LONDON_ Printed by _M. F._ for JOHN MARRIOT, and are to be sold at his shop in S^t _Dunstans_ Church-yard in _Fleet-Street_. 1649. What happened seems to have been this. The younger Donne intervened before the edition was issued, and either by authority or agreement took it over. Marriot remained the publisher. The title-page which in _1649_ was identical with that of _1635-39_, except for the change of date and the 'W' in 'WITH', now appeared as follows: POEMS, _By_ J. D. WITH ELEGIES ON THE AUTHORS DEATH. TO WHICH _Is added divers Copies under his own hand never before in print._ _LONDON_, Printed for _John Marriot_, and are to be sold by _Richard Marriot_ at his shop by _Chancery_ lane end over against the Inner Temple gate. 1650. The initials of the printer, M. F., disappear, and the name of John Marriot's son, partner, and successor, Richard, appears along with his own. There is no great distance between St. Dunstan's Churchyard and the end of Chancery Lane. With M. F. went the introductory _Printer to the Understanders_, its place being taken by a dedicatory letter in young Donne's most courtly style to William, Lord Craven, Baron of Hamsted-Marsham. In the body of the volume as prepared in 1649 no alteration was made. The 'divers Copies ... never before in print', of which the new editor boasts, were inserted in a couple of sheets (or a sheet and a half, aa, bb incomplete) at the end. These are variously bound up in different copies, being sometimes before, sometimes at the end of the _Elegies upon the Author_, sometimes before and among them. They contain a quite miscellaneous assortment of writings, verse and prose, Latin and English, by, or presumably by, Donne, with a few complimentary verses on Donne taken from Jonson's _Epigrams_. The text of Donne's own writings is carelessly printed. In short, Donne's son did nothing to fix either the text or the canon of his father's poems. The former, as it stands in the body of the volume in the editions of 1650-54, he took over from Marriot and M. F. As regards the latter, he speaks of the 'kindnesse of the Printer, ... adding something too much, lest any spark of this sacred fire might perish undiscerned'; but he does not condescend to tell us, if he knew, what these unauthentic poems are. He withdrew nothing.