Spenser, Edmund (1552?-1599)Biblio.com
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1882218315London : printed for private circulation 1882-1884 1882. Limited Edition. Hardback. Good to very good copies in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Gilt-tooled portrait and decorative border to front panels. Spines bands worn with some fraying evident in places. Spine covers faded and sun-toned. Some fading and toning also evident to the panels of vols. 1-3 and 7-9. Panel edges dulled and rubbed. Bumped corners. Small tear between the top of the spine cover and front panel of vol. 5. Vols. 6 7 8 and 9 are unread copies with unopened pages. Fore and bottom page edges rough-trimmed. Internally pages are clean and bright with just some scattered spots of marginal foxing evident in places. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Further scans images etc. and additional bibliographical material available on request. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 0 pages; Physical description: 9 v. : facsim. ill. maps ; 20 cm. 100 copies only in this form --c.f. title page. Contents: v. 1. Life of Spenser / by the editor with appendix. Essays: Characteristics of Spenser's poetry / by Aubrey de Vere. Spenser the poet and teacher / by Prof. Edward Dowden. Certain aspects of the poetry of Spenser / by the Rev. W.B. Philpot. The introspection and outlook of Spenser / by the Rev. William Hubbard -- v. 2. The Shepheards calender and Glosse 1597: with various readings of the quartos 1579-91 -- v. 3. Complaints 1590-91. Essay on English pastoral poetry / by E.W. Gosse. Rider on the same ; Who were Rosalinde and Menalcas ; Notices of Edward Kirke / by the editor -- v. 4. Essays on the minor poems of Spenser / by F.T. Palgrave. Daphnaida: an elegie upon the death of . Douglas Howard etc. 1591. Colin Clouts come home again 1595. Amoretti and Epithalamion 1595. Fowre hymnes 1596. Prothalamion or A spousal verse etc. 1596. Astrophel etc. and Sonnets -- v. 5. The faerie queene. bk. i.-ii. -- v. 6. The faerie queene. bk. ii. continued-iii. -- v. 7. The faerie queene. bk. iii. continued-v. -- v. 8. The faerie queene. bk v. continued-vi. Two cantos of Mvtabilitie. Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh. Commendatory poems and sonnets -- v. 9. Prose: A veue of the present state of Ireland. Letters etc. Subjects: Spenser Edmund 1552-1599 -- Collected works -- Biography -- English literature -- Poetry -- Verse -- Prose -- Studies interpretation and criticism. [London] : printed for private circulation, 1882-1884 hardcover
19308495Oxford: Published for the press by Basil Blackwell 1930-32. Eight volumes. No. 268 of 375 copies. Hand coloured wood engravings throughout by Hilda Quick. Initial letters title page lettering and headings engraved from designs by Joscelyne Gaskin printed in red blue and black. Double page engraved map and title for ‘A Vewe of the Present State of Ireland’ by Macdonald Gill. Printed on Batchelor’s Shakespeare Head handmade paper in 16 pt. Caslon. Edited by W.L. Renwick. 4to. original quarter green morocco over marbled green boards with vellum tips gilt lettering on spines fore and lower edges uncut a largely unopened set. Spines a little darkened with some slight rubbing boards with some rubbing and scratching internally bright and clean.With full and splendid printings of The Shephearde’s Calendar and The Faeirie Queen together with shorter works including Daphnaida Epithalamion Astrophel Colin Clouts Come Home Againe and A Vewe of the Present State of Ireland A typographically handsome delicately decorated printing of Spenser Published for the press by Basil Blackwell hardcover
1909834B20DOxford: At the Clarendon Press 1909-1910. Leather. Fine. 9" by 6". None. A wonderful complete three volume set of The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser including his epic poem The Faerie Queene. A complete three volume set of The Poetical Works of Edmund Spencer edited by Ernest De Selincourt. A beautiful Hatchards binding in lovely condition. The volumes include the original title pages and are illustrated throughout the text. The first volume 1910 contains Spenser's minor poems based upon a collation of the editions published in the poet's lifetime with the Folio of 1611. The volume includes Daphnaida Colin Clovts Come Home Again Prothalamion and miscellaneous sonnets. The second volume 1909 contains the first three books of Spenser's Faerie Queene and is edited by J. C. Smith. The third volume 1909 contains the fourth to the seventh books of the Faerie Queene which remains one of the longest poems in the English langauge. Re-bound in half morocco with cloth covered boards. Externally lovely with just some fading to the spines. Internally firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Fine At the Clarendon Press hardcover
186288581Bell & Daldy 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Editions First Printings. Published by Bell & Daldy 1862. Octavos. Finely bound in red crushed morocco with gilt tooled spine and panel edges. Five raised spine bands and black spine labels stamped in gold. Gilt stained page ends. Binding signed Bound by New. on rear pastedown of each volume. Books are very good/near fine. Spine straight corners sharp. Bindings tight and pages crisp. Each volume has a bookplate on front pastedown from the Wadsworth Library in Geneseo New York. They do not have names filled in on the line. Some light pencil notations of old prices on first blank page. Each volume bears the contemporary ownership signature dated May 23 1864 on first blank page. Only other library markings is a small neat 5 digit catalog number on the obverse of the title page of each volume. Some light shelf wear/rubbing to the boards. A wonderful complete set of the works of Edmund Spenser. Printed by the Chiswick Press. Scarce complete in this condition. 2282 total pages. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton New York. Bell & Daldy hardcover
1407138London: Folio Society 2011. Facsimile Limited Edition #287/1000. Hardcover. Quarto three volumes. In Very Good condition. Housed in a Very Good minus condition solid wood slipcase covered with maroon crushed silk with light wear throughout. All volumes bound in full white leather with gilt ornamentation and titling to front boards and spines. Boards have light rubbing wear to edges. Textblocks have white silk page ribbons and light shelf wear. All volumes have gilt to top edges. <br /> <br> <br /> <br> <br /> CONTENTS: <br /> VOL I: Contains books I and II lxxxvii 9 527 1 pages;-- VOL II: Contains books III and IV viii 529-1044 pages;-- VOL III: Contains books V and VI viii 1045-1546 8 pages. Including 88 full page plates and in-text illustrations throughout. Shelved in ◻. Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. 1407138. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Folio Society hardcover
1897186438London: J. M. Dent & Co. 1897. First Fairfax-Muckley edition one of 1250 copies printed on ordinary paper. This edition was intended as a stylistic companion to Dent's Le Morte d'Arthur 1894-95 illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley and as a competitor to the George Allen edition of The Faerie Queene illustrated by Walter Crane and published the same year. Fairfax-Muckley 1862-1926 was an influential leader of the arts and crafts Birmingham School having studied painting and drawing at the Birmingham School of Art in the early 1880s. A 1901 profile by the Society of Designers declares that he "has always had a strong bent towards the straightforward methods of the early painters. as witness the beautiful designs for his well-known edition of the 'Faerie Queene' which fully express his natural admiration of the early Italian work" p. 171. Dent commissioned Beardsley and Fairfax-Muckley to illustrate his deluxe arts and crafts publications in an effort to emulate the success of the Kelmscott Press. An additional limitation of 100 copies on handmade paper was also issued. 2 vols quarto. Woodcut frontispieces and title pages 25 woodcut illustrations 11 bifolia woodcut initials head-and tailpieces ornaments and borders throughout. Original cloth spine elaborately decorated in gilt sides decorated in gilt top edge gilt others untrimmed silk bookmarkers. Ownership stamp of one George Hallet on the half-titles and p. xi. Lightly rubbed foxing to cloth endpapers and edges bookmarkers detached: a very good copy. Society of Designers 'A Designer of the Birmingham School' The Artist: An Illustrated Monthly Record of Arts Crafts and Industries 1901. hardcover
18054529London: printed for F.C. and J. Rivington T. Payne Cadell and Davies and R.H. Evans 1805. 8 vols. 8vo. pp. xiv cxcii 213; ii ccxx 216; ii 472; ii 542; ii 480; ii 486; ii 564; ii 581 engraved portrait frontispiece engraved by Joseph Collyer. Contemporary full diced russia gilt ruled with fully gilt spines lettered direct several joints skilfully renewed; booksellers ticket of Calignant Paris. A handsome example of the best and most beautiful - according to Brunet - edition of Spensers works. Todds Poetical Works of John Milton 1801 became the standard edition of Milton for some decades. Here Todd assembled critical material by John Hughes Joseph Spence Thomas Wharton and John Upton and contributed his own biography of Spenser as well as additional notes. Writing in the Edinburgh Review vol 13 1806 Sir Walter Scott was less than complimentary. He described Todds style as of a dry sober and sleepy cast and was critical of his decision to reprint the notes of earlier commentators in full at the foot of each page rather than extracting their spirit and essence himself especially where they contradict one another five to one would be odds even against Culley or the Game Chicken and Spenser stood in danger of being overwhelmed but Scott did allow that the text is correctly and judiciously edited. One can sympathise with Scotts rejection of variorum editions but in the present work Todd had compiled a comprehensive survey of Spenserian scholarship as it existed two hundred years after the poets death. Brunet V 487. OCLC: 2917268 Book printed for F.C. and J. Rivington, T. Payne, Cadell and Davies, and R.H. Evans unknown
175157003London: Printed for J. Brindley and S. Wright 1751. .To Which are Now Added a New Life of the Author and also a Glossary. Adorn'd with thirty-two copper-plates from the original drawings of the late W. Kent Esq; architect and principal painter to his Majesty. Mottled calf boards gilt decs to spine. All three vols have detached front board and ffep rear boards also loose. Binding bumped and chipped minor loss to spine ends all lack spine title labels. Bookplates of Henry Curwen and John Law to each front pastedown. Vol II has some minor biological damage to first few pagesTextblocks however in good order clean solid text and plates bright. Full Leather. Good Minus. 4to. Printed for J. Brindley and S. Wright Hardcover
1862ST19567-034London: Bell and Daldy 1862. 229 x 152 mm. 9 x 6". Five volumes. Edited by John Payne Collier. <br/> VERY ATTRACTIVE DEEP BLUE PEBBLE-GRAIN MOROCCO HANDSOMELY GILT covers with frames of one dogtooth and three plain rules raised bands spines in antique-style compartments with delicate scrolling cornerpieces and intricate central fleuron surrounded by small tools densely gilt floral turn-ins marbled endpapers all edges gilt. With frontispiece portrait of Spenser in volume I. Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Herbert Lionel Bashford M. A. Dibon Lodge Godalming. See: Day "History of English Literature to 1660" pp. 187-89. Spines just a shade darker than covers a couple covers with a slightly blotchy appearance due to leather preservative but quite an attractive set in generally fine condition the text fresh and bright and the leather lustrous.<br/> <br/> The first modern English poet to achieve major stature Spenser ca. 1552-99 in Day's words demonstrated "with his fluency in many meters and stanzaic forms . . . that English was at least the equal to any other language as a vehicle of great poetry." While his poems particularly "The Faerie Queene" look backward as the culmination of the allegorical verse tradition of the Pearl Poet Langland and Chaucer he has influenced with "his fertile imagination and especially his sensuous imagery and melodic language" nearly every important English poet who followed him. Day DNB praises Collier's "Spenser" first published in 1862 as "an excellent edition with the completest life of the poet that had as yet appeared." Despite his great knowledge and love of early English authors Collier 1789-1883 suffered a certain diminished respect because of his propensity for textual fabrication. This was true particularly in the case of the notorious "Perkins folio" supposedly containing an early copy of Shakespeare's works with superior variant readings which turned out to be forged. Britannica comments that these "fabrications . . . may charitably . . . be attributed to literary monomania but . . . it is difficult to speak with patience of them so completely did they for a long time bewilder the chronology of Shakespeare's writings." Apart from its important content this set is quite lovely on the shelf. The bindings are unsigned but they have the feel and appearance of work done by James Hayday 1796-1872 one of the most prominent and productive English binders of the 19th century. The present set is typical of Hayday's decorative work for a large market using high quality leather and being liberal with gilt embellishment. Bell and Daldy unknown
180523995London: F.C. and J. Rivington et al. 1805. 8 volumes large 8vo ten inches tall - an old penciled note on the endpaper calls this a Large Paper copy engraved frontis portrait in vol. 1 contemporary full polished paneled tan calf neatly rebacked black morocco labels on spine a.e.g.; edges a little worn title-p. and frontis in vol. 1 browned a few minor spots and stains else very good and sound. Lowndes p. 2477. F.C. and J. Rivington [et al.] unknown
19327046Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press.and Published for the Press by Basil Blackwell 1932. First Thus. Very Good. One of 375 numbered copies on Batchelor's Shakespeare Head handmade paper this copy being number 134 out of a total edition of 386 copies. Eight volumes large octavo 11 3/16 x 7 1/8 inches; 285 x 194 mm. Bound in the original quarter green calf over marbled boards by Douglas Cockerell. Vellum tips. Spines lettered and dated in gilt. Edges untrimmed. With 111 woodcut illustrations decorations and title vignettes after and by Hilda Quick all hand-colored except for five that are printed in red and black. A Vewe of the Present State of Ireland with pictorial woodcut title-page border and woodcut frontispiece map of Ireland by Macdonald Gill both hand-colored. Lettering for half-titles title-pages headings and initials printed in red black and blue after designs by Joscelyne Gaskin some shoulder notes printed in red with occasional text printed in red and black. Some scuffing to boards and rubbing to spines. Mid-twentieth-century ink ownership inscriptions in first two volumes. Bright and fresh throughout. A Very Good set.<br /> <br /> "The text of the present edition of Spenser's Works has been prepared by Professor W.L. Renwick. It follows in every case the first editions.The decorations have been designed and engraved on wood by Hilda Quick those in The Shepheardes Calender being based on the cuts in the original editions. The initial letters and the letterings for the title- page and headings have been engraved by her from designs by Joscelyne Gaskin.The eight volumes of Spenser 1930 are equally good-different as the character of the author is but in merita nothing to choose between them. Perhaps the small devices below Spenser's sonnets printed in black and in the vellum copies beautifully laid with gold are the most discreet and opulent form of decoration fitting and in flawless taste" Franklin.<br /> <br /> Franklin 150 236. Ransom 17:67. Very Good. Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press...and Published for the Press by Basil Blackwell unknown
100369London Cambridge University Press 1909 Limited Numbered Edition 10/350. Large Hardbacks approx 12.5 x 9 inches. In full vellum fine bindings With gilt lettering to spines and gilt lettering and decorations to fronts. Top page edges gilt. In very good near fine condition. Some minor darkening and handling marks to vellum on covers. Else clean and smart. Bookplates to endpapers “William B. Broadmead.” Numbered opposite main title pages. One or two occasional very minor light foxing spots and handling marks else pages all very clean and tight throughout. Page edges rough cut. Else very good clean and tight copies. 2 volumes: 544 & 494pp. With decorative tailpiece designs. The text here given of Books I to VI is that of the edition of 1596 in two volumes quarto. Books I to III are the second edition which had already appeared in 1590. Books IV to VI were printed for the first time in 1596. The fragment of Book VII is from the folio edition of 1609. The Letter written to Sir Walter Raleigh and the verses addressed to and by Spenser are from the edition of 1590. The sixteenth century was the golden age of English poetry. Edmund Spenser burned to create an English equivalent to Virgil’s Aeneid. Instead of lauding the Caesars he would glorify Elizabeth the Virgin Queen. Where Virgil connected Rome to the heroic past of Troy Spenser would forge a link between Tudor England and the mythological age of King Arthur. The result was The Faerie Queene a rich allegory which elevated Protestant virtues through the medium of a romantic chivalric epic. Today the power of Spenser’s story and the beauty of his verse still live in ‘famous memory’. London, Cambridge University Press, 1909 Limited Numbered Edition 10/350. hardcover
1902145313Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1902. First edition thus first impression number 16 of 400 numbered copies from an edition limited to 419 copies designed by Bruce Rogers for the Riverside Press two years after his appointment as head of the Department of Special Bookmaking and a notably early publication featuring the involvement of this great book designer. This is an attractive edition of Spenser's famous marriage poems in a superb Riviere binding. Small folio 295 x 188 mm. Title vignette and two large illustrations printed in red mounted in the text. Finely bound by Riviere & Son in contemporary red crushed morocco titles in gilt direct to spine raised bands compartments finely tooled in gilt elegant double and triple gilt fillet frames to boards with ornate floral motifs to corners turn-ins richly gilt marbled endpapers top edge gilt others untrimmed. Housed in custom pink cloth slipcase corners a little bumped. Engraved pictorial bookplate of Pennsylvania historian and poetry collector Christopher Magee Steel 1900-7196 to front pastedown. Small splits to joints some with old expert repairs lower tip slightly bumped the binding otherwise sound and clean internally fresh and unmarked; an attractive copy. hardcover
1825BOOKS071124ILondon: William Pickering. Nearly fine set in full leather. 1825. 1st. leather. 8vo 1975 pp. Bound by Zaehnsdorf with their stamp on the endpapers in full dark blue leather with gilt decorated spines with raised bands in five panels; contrasting titles volume numbers and date at the base on each volume; top edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Very minor rubbing to a bright handsome set. . William Pickering hardcover
18978274<p>Archibald Constable & Co. Westminster. London. 1897-1900. SIX VOLUMES. FIRST KATE WARREN EDITION. 8vo.6.8 x 4.4 inches. Illustrated frontis to each volume - 3 portraits and 3 sepia photographic views River Blackwater County Cork ; Ruins of Kilcolman Spenser's home in Ireland ; Glengarriff County Cork. each with a tissue guard. Each volume with an extra decorative title page. A fine and clean set with a few of the gatherings still unopened. Finely bound by Riviere in early twentieth century quarter vellum with single raised bands. Green title labels ruled and lettered in gilt. Arts and Crafts style tall flower design with stems leaves and flower in gilt to each spine. Blue cloth on boards. Top edges gilt others untrimmed. Some minor marks to the cloth on a few of the boards but the spines all clean and the gilt bright so the set looks great on the shelf. A very attractive set of vellum bindings.</p> Archibald Constable & Co. Westminster. London. 1897-1900 hardcover
1862012419London: Smith Elder & Co 1862. Complete in 2 volumes. Books measure 21.5x15.cm. Collation xix1400pp16 coloured or tined plates including frontis 2 folding maps LACKING MAP OF DISTRICTS KINA BALU . Bound in modern half leather leather corners cloth boards raised bands gilt lines lettering leather labels. Both bindings in very good clean firm condition. Internally occasional minor spotting/tanning short closed tear to margin of maps. Pages and plates in good clean condition. Generally a good clean solid set.F . First Edition. Half Leather. Very Good. 8vo. Smith Elder & Co Paperback
Z1-Office-00127Smith Elder and Co. Used - Good. 2 vols. 1863 revised 2nd. ed. original green cloth bindings. Cloth is marked and rubbed. with slight damage to edges. Spines are worn but intact. Front hinge of vol 1 is detatched. 16 coloured plates. the three maps have all got minor tearing. 5 numbers in pencil to title page. some foxing. For further details or pictures please message us. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Smith Elder and Co hardcover
1758300360London: J. & R. Tonson 1758. First Edition; Early Printing. Fine binding. Both volumes Very Good in rebound blue cloth with previous owner initials emblazened on right bottom of front cover. J. & R. Tonson unknown
17515320London: J. Brindley S. Wright 1751. First Illustrated Edition. Measuring approximately 11.25" x 8.75" with 453 450 440 numbered pages respectively. <br /> <br /> These volumes are in fair condition. Volume one and two are in various stages of being rebound. Gilt lettering and design on spine is still legible. Volume III is in the worst condition with both boards detached. Front pages are loose and lacking the rear endpages. Interior pages of all volumes are clean and well preserved. <br /> <br /> Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.<br /> <br /> Inventory #F2-3. J. Brindley, S. Wright unknown
1930369955London: The Cresset Press 1930. One of 350 copies. With frontispiece and twelve chapter headings by John Nash all hand-stencilled in color at the Curwen Press. 1 vols. Tall 4to. Original cream silk-covered boards vellum spine t.e.g. others uncut. Fine fresh copy. Nash John. One of 350 copies. With frontispiece and twelve chapter headings by John Nash all hand-stencilled in color at the Curwen Press. 1 vols. Tall 4to. A lovely book printed on handmade paper in Granjon Old Face used here for the first time it was designed by the printer of the book George W. Jones. Ransom Check Lists 20 The Cresset Press unknown
elala2215London: William Pickering Nattali And Combe & Oxford: Talboys And Wheeler 1825. First Pickering Edition with a life by George Robinson. 5 Volumes. 8vo. woodcut title vignettes. engraved frontis. portrait by W.H.Worthington. woodcut title vignettes. modern half calf by Henry Sotheran t.e.g. others untrimmed London: William Pickering, Nattali And Combe, & Oxford: Talboys And Wheeler, 1825 unknown
1882026962London: by the author Printed for Private Circulation Only. 1882. Book. Fine. Half Leather. Limited Edition. 8vo 14 x 22cm. 1882-4. A fine nine volume set of this edition limited to 100 copies - Printed for Private Circulation Only. The title pages state "in ten volumes" but in the event only 9 volumes were publised. Fine contemporary uniform bindings by Zaehnsdorf of restrained but elegant half brown morocco with marbled boards and 5 raised bands to the spines lettered in gilt; bindings very good with a little gentle wear only spines very slightly faded. All edges marbled to match boards and end-papers. Contents clean and tight; a little foxing more or less confined to the front and rear blanks otherwise unmarked. A superb set of this rare and desirable edition limited to just 100copies. Provenance: With the attractive bookplate of Claude Goldsmit-Montefiore to most front paste-downs. Claude Joseph Goldsmid Montefiore 1858 - 1938 was son of Nathaniel Montefiore and the great nephew of Sir Moses Montefiore. Some identify him as a significant figure in the contexts of modern Jewish religious thought Jewish-Christian relations and Anglo-Jewish socio-politics. Wikipedia. [by the author] Printed for Private Circulation Only. Hardcover
1758000012233London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand 1758. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vol. 8vo. 5 vi-xxxviii 2 1-527 1; 2 3-496 pp. Contemporary full calf with the spines in six compartments compartments ruled in gold with recent green morocco labels lettered in gold on each spine; all edges sprinkled blue. Each volume illustrated with a frontispiece volume one with four plates volume two with three plates. The volumes also have one in-text illustration. With a glossary explaining the old and obscure words. Carpenter 116. Lowndes 2477. Oxford DNB "Spenser Edmund 1552-1599". According to Lowndes this is the first Tonson edition of Spenser's epic poem. Carpenter states this edition is based on that of Hughes. Includes a biography of Edmund Spenser. An attractive edition of Spenser's poem concerned with knights dragons queens noble ladies Greek gods and goddesses and warriors. The poem itself was dedicated to Queen Elisabeth I with whom Spenser had an audience before the publication of his poem in 1590 to Sir Walter Raleigh and to numerous other noble English people of the late sixteenth century. Spenser's poetic style was revolutionary to English literature: it combined classical and native English themes motifs and stories. Chaucer and Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics were hugely influential to Spenser's work. The poem centers around six knights and their quests with each knight representative of a specific virtue. A work central to English literature. Each front joint discreetly strengthened the crown and foot of each spine worn away; a small contemporary name on each title page. Printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand hardcover
117112London printed by William Faden 1758. . New edition; 4 volumes 8vo 22 x 14 cm; contemporary manuscript bookplates to pastedowns touch of spotting; contemporary full tree calf gilt motifs to spines in six compartments with contrasting gilt red and black morocco labels upper joint of vol. I starting to split a very good set; lxix 248 48; 2 300 1; 2 502 1; 2 462 19pp.<br /> A lovely tree calf bound set of Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene one of the longest poems in the English language. It follows Arthurian knights in the examination of 12 moral virtues and was a huge success in its time owing to Elizabeth I's political approval of its noble and virtuous teachings and its celebration of the Tudor dynasty.<br /> London, printed by William Faden, 1758. unknown
200875531Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 2008. Full Leather. Fine. Three volume set. 28.5 x 22 cm. Quarto. Bound into full red leather with gilt design lettering and foredges. 3 raised bands to spine. The interior is a facsimile of the George Allen 1897 edition edited by Thomas J. Wise and illustrated by Walter Crane. Moire endpapers and ribbon. Easton Press unknown
