Spenser, EdmundBiblio.com
Spenser, Edmund; Rhys, Ernest (Ed)Biblio.com
The Lyrical Poems of Edmund Spenser Lyric
189516802London: J. M. Dent & Co 1895. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. "Bring with you all the Nymphes that you can heare Both of the rivers and the forrests greene." to this 130-year-old celebration of the lyrical verse of Edmund Spenser. "Epithalamion" "The Shepheardes Calender" "Happy Ye Leaves" hymns in honor of love and beauty and more of Spenser's lyrical poems are collected in this 1895 nearly pocket-size tome gilt-stamped in twining Art Nouveau vines of heart-shaped leaves and butterflies and illustrated in an engraved portrait of the poet a muse-adorned title page and decorative head- and tailpieces throughout. <br /> <br /> 6 1/8" X 4". xviii 245pp. Bound in sky blue cloth over boards with Art Nouveau vines stamped in gilt to upper board and spine lettered in kind. Mild wear to binding with bumping and rubbing to corners and to head and tail of spine. Blue silk ribbon placemarker detached and laid in. Previous owner's name dated March 1895 to front free endpaper. Binding is firm and sound. Pages show an occasional blemish else unmarked. Illustrated in a tissue-guarded engraved portrait of the poet decorative title page and Art Nouveau head- and tailpieces. J. M. Dent & Co hardcover
Underground Books, ABAA · États-Unis80,00 $US≈ 67,69 €
