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2120<p>London: A. & C. Black 1915. Octavo 280 pages bound in white cloth with an extraordinary Arts and Crafts cover and spine design. This collection of classic poetical tales was selected and edited by W. J. Glover and illustrated with eight full-page illustrations in colour from drawings by Sybil Tawse. A fine copy of a book often found in sad condition.</p> hardcover books
18981717New York Harper 1898. 1898. First American edition. 8vo. 12 full-page b/w illustrations text borders pictorial endpapers and cover designs by Walter Crane. Original pictorial green cloth with color illustrations on spine and both covers top edge stained green uncut joints cracked. Very good. Ink inscription of the first preliminary page: "Abbie Burr from Clara F. Palmer.". Signed by Authors. F. Hardcover. New York, Harper, 1898. hardcover books
1909D3349Oxford: Clarendon Press 1909-10. Hardcover. Very Good. Three volumes complete. Navy cloth gilt-lettered spine. With vignettes and illuminated initials. All volumes: Boards rubbed; spine tips a little frayed; scattering of white paint across spines. The previous owner seems to have really enjoyed Volume 1 "Minor Poems" in particular: Spine lettering faded; some occasional marginalia light in pencil; and a few of the vignettes have been brightly hand-colored. An excellent working set. <br/><br/> Clarendon Press hardcover books
19281296269London: The Scholartis Press 1928. Hardcover. Octavo; VG-; hardcover; bound in blue cloth gilt lettering; boards bowed general shelfwear general edgewear rubbing on fore corners and spine edges bumping on spine edges spine sun toned protected by mylar interior age toned damp staining on front interior; text block age toned gutter occasionally visible occasional penciling folding on tail fore corner of pages 211 through 213 very occasional light soiling; 273pp. 1296269. Rockville Non-Retail Listings. The Scholartis Press hardcover books
1980190420Newsweek Books 1980-01-01. Hardcover. Good/Good. Dust jacket and book are clean has a good binding name is blacked out on the half title page- no other marks or notations. Newsweek Books hardcover books
1978185295Smithsonian 1978-11-17. Paperback. Very Good. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Light wear. Smithsonian paperback books
2085London: Caxton Publishing Company 1907. A 12mo. 290 pages including an index of first lines. With an introduction by William Butler Yeats. Portrait frontispiece and pictorial title page by A. S. Hatrick. Eight full page plates by Jessie M. King printed on heavy stock and embellished with gilt details. A bit of wear at the head of the spine and corner tips endleaves browned else a fine copy. White 74. books
19001883New York: Care of Spenser Publishing 1900. Leaflet. Very good. 3p. How to look well until 80 Rest Voice False Standards Working Women Domestic Service Open Church Doors King's Daughers Trained Nurse. Folded leaflet 4.5" x 3.5. Lightly creased. Spenser was a New York City based Victorian era public speaker and author. None apparently recorded nor any material by Freeland. <br/><br/> Care of Spenser Publishing unknown books
1679270856London: Henry Hills 1679. hardcover. near fine. The Faery Queen. The Shepherds Calendar. The History of Ireland &c. Whereunto is added an Account of his Life with other new Additions never before in Print. Rubricated title. Frontispiece engraving of the poet's tomb by Robert White. Rubricated title 12pp. 339 16 8 258pp. i.e. 254 369-391 3 leaves. Handsomely rebound in full tan calf in the style of the period. London: Henry Hills for Jonathan Edwards 1679. Third Folio Edition. Near fine.<br/><br/> Poetry and prose of the celebrated 16th century author whose lasting influence on English literature has earned him the title of "the poet's poet." DNB 18 804. Wing S4965. Lowndes 2477.<br/><br/> Henry Hills unknown books
167916502London: Henry Hills for J. Edwin 1679. First complete edition. Near fine. Hardcover. Folio. xii339i168210-119-1114-258369-391ipp. Early full calf Cambridge-style binding rebacked in the 19th century with the spine in 7 compartments intricately gilt; leather label gilt. Engraved frontispiece. Each work has its own title page and for the first three begins the pagination anew though 'The Shepherds Calandar' is mispaginated in three places. 2A-Z4 Kk mismarked K Nn mismarked NAa-Zz4Aaa-Zzz4Aaaa-Iiii4Kkkk Aaaaa-Ccccc4. A handsome copy with an inscription dated 1891 probably the date of the reback. Unbeliveably quirky pagination and signature markings but complete. One of two states of this printing: This state shows two bars with catchword 'Calen-" on page 258 followed by p. 359 'Calendarium Pastorale'. A second state lacks the catchword has 'Finis' between the bars on p. 258 an advertisement leaf and then the 'Calendarium'. Carpenter p. 111. DNB suggests that this edition may have been edited by Dryden. Wing S4965. ESTC R7177. Henry Hills for J. Edwin hardcover books
19271002671London: Noel Douglas 1927. Limited edition of this fine press facsimile number 40 of 100 on handmade rag paper a replica of William Ponsonby's first printing of 1595 reproduced from the copy in the British Museum. Spenser's sonnet cycle Amoretti follows the courtship of the poet and a lady with a "twinkle" in her eye inspired by Spenser's second wife Elizabeth Boyle: "But when I pleade she bids me play my part / and when I weep she sayes teares are but water: / and when I sigh she sayes I know the art / and when I waile she turns her selfe to laughter" Sonnet XVIII. The volume concludes with Epithalamion Spenser's ode to his bride on their wedding day: "Set all your things in seemely good aray / Fit for so joyfull day / The joyfulst day that ever sunne did see." A fine copy. Small octavo measuring 5 x 3 inches: 140. Original publisher's vellum lettered in gilt text block uncut and partially unopened. Vignettes on both title pages decorative headpieces and tailpieces. Bookplate of George B. Cluett to front free endpaper. Noel Douglas unknown books
192850787London: The Scholartis Press 1928. Edition limited to 1660 copies 8vo pp. 12 273 1; original blue cloth gilt title direct on spine blue top edge; fine in a fine dust jacket. A critical text edited with full commentary and textual and bibliographical notes edited by W. L. Renwick. <br/><br/> The Scholartis Press hardcover books
186925011London: Macmillan 1869. The Globe Edition small 8vo pp. lv 1 736; a fine copy in contemporary half black morocco gilt paneled spine in 6 compartments red morocco label lettered in gilt in 1 teg. <br/><br/> Macmillan unknown books
192952344London: The Scholartis Press 1929. Special edition limited to 95 copies signed by the editor 8vo pp. 8 243 1; full tan pigskin gilt title direct on spine t.e.g. marbled endpapers; spine ends worn and tail of spine chipped very good. Edited with commentary by W. L. Renwick. <br/><br/> The Scholartis Press unknown books
192950753London: The Scholartis Press 1929. Edition limited to 1660 copies 8vo pp. 8 243 1; original blue cloth gilt title on spine; fine in fine dust jacket. Edited with commentary by W. L. Renwick. <br/><br/> The Scholartis Press hardcover books
1973128999Shaker Heights OH: The Wind and Harlot Press 1973. stiff paper wrappers top edge cut other edges uncut. Wind and Harlot Press. 16mo. stiff paper wrappers top edge cut other edges uncut. ii 24 4 pages. Limited to 60 numbered copies signed by printer Robert Baris on colophon. An ode written by Spenser to his bride in 1594 first published the following year. The Wind and Harlot Press unknown books
189519631New York: Dodd Mead 1895. Special Limited edition No. 2. of 25 copies printed signed by the artist George Wharton Edwards 1859-1950 American impressionist painter and illustrator and author of several books of travel and historical subjects a member of the Cos Cob Art Colony in Connecticut; pages; title page and frontispiece illustration in gold and red; rest of the text in black and white in an Arts and Crafts style beautifully executed; bound in faux-vellum paper covered boards elaborately gilt and decorated; green watered silk endpapers and each leaf of the book tipped-on via the same green silk each page being on a cardstock-weight paper; binding very soiled and worn; contents in very good condition. Signed by Illustrator. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Illus. by George Wharton Edwards. Dodd, Mead Hardcover books
1973WRCLIT36408Np: Wind & Harlot Press 1973. Small octavo. Printed wrappers. One of only sixty numbered copies printed by hand by Robert Baris for distribution to friends of the press signed by him. Fine. Wind & Harlot Press unknown books
161166412The First Collected Edition of SpenserÃs Works and First Folio Edition SPENSER Edmund. The Faerie Queen: The Shepherds Calendar: Together with the Other Works of EnglandÃs Arch-PoÃŽt Edm. Spenser: Collected into one Volume and carefully corrected. London: Printed for H.L. for Mathew Lownes 1611. First collected edition of SpenserÃs works and first folio edition second issue with the title to The Second Part of the Faerie Queene beginning with signature R dated 1613 and the colophon dated ì16012î sic. With the Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale consisting of a single gathering A of eight leaves and dated 1612 on the title not found in the first issue. Lacks the last blank Hh6 at the end of the second part of The Faerie Queen; but has the blank Q8 at the end of Letter to Raleighonly found in first issue and blank F4 at the end of The Shepherds Calendar. Folio. 11 inches x 7 1/2 inches. i-vi 363 xvi; x 56 16 xxvi iv xxvi vi xvi x xii iv. General title within woodcut border McKerrow & Ferguson 212 twelve woodcut illustrations and ornamental borders decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. The woodcuts in The Shepherds Calender were used in all the earlier separate editions. Beautifully bound by Riviere in full cherry red straight grain morocco ruled in gilt on covers gilt-stamped on spine with five raised bands. Gilt turn-ins. All edges gilt. Small restoration to outer margin of title-page not affecting text and small closed cut to page 162 some toning mostly in outer margins. Overall a very good and solid copy in an appropriate binding. "The first modern English poet to achieve major stature Spenser demonstrated with his fluency in many meters and stanzaic forms that English waÂs at least the equal to any other language as a vehicle of great poetry. While his poetry particularly The Faerie Queene looks 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." Grolier Langland to Wither 239. Johnson 19. Pforzheimer 973. STC 23084. HBS 66412. $7500 Printed for H.L. for Mathew Lownes hardcover books
1895175910London: George Allen 1895. hardcover. fine. Crane Walter. Bold illustrations by Walter Crane. Originally issued in 19 parts Seven title pages eighty-eight full page woodcut illustrations one double page 132 head and tailpieces and numerous woodcut initials. Now exquisitely rebound in 3/4 crimson crushed morocco 6 volumes small 4to marbled endpapers. London: George Allen 1895-97. A fine set.<br/><br/> Limited first book-form edition of Walter Crane's "most ambitious project of book illustration" Lacy 103 one of 1000 large-paper copies.<br/><br/> George Allen unknown books
1905191961Oxford: Oxford University Press 1905. Hardcover. Near Fine. New. Near fine name v. sl. Wear/ no dustwrapper. Edited by G. W. Kitchen. Glossary by A. L. Mayhew. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information. Oxford University Press hardcover books
19021006531902. SPENCER Edmund. Prothalamion and Epithalamion. 28 2 pp. Small folio bound in deluxe three-quarter teal morocco matching buff paper over boards. Deckled edge. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1902. A fine edition of Spencer's famous poetical celebrations of marriage designed and printed by Bruce Rogers with delicate headpiece illustrations and vignettes by Edwin Howland Blashfield. A fine copy in a deluxe binding printed on handmade paper. One of 419 copies. hardcover books
4666ROGERS. ROGERS SPENSER Edmund. PROTHALAMION: EPITHALAMION. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1902. Small folio. Boards. 29 1 pag One of 419 copies. Warde 32. G.P. Winship's copy with his signature. The book features illustrations in o red on India paper from drawings by Edwin H. Blashfield. Head of spine chipp and minor cover rubbing. unknown books
SKU1029065Modern Library. Hardcover. Good/Good. B0007G5S7W Dust jacket and book are clean with moderate wear has a good binding no marks or notations. Modern Library hardcover books
19643520.1New York: The Modern Library 1964. 1st ML ed. Hardback. Dust jacket. Nr F owner sig/VG some rubbing & edgewear/spine panel lightly sunned/pc. 8vo. <br/><br/> The Modern Library hardcover books
