SPENSER Edmund

The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser. Volume I [only. Containing Aikin's Life of Spenser; Spenser's Letter to Raleigh; Verses and Sonnets of Faery Queene; Faery Queene Books 1-III]. IN CONTEMPORARY FULL ROAN

Suttaby Evance & Fox,, 1819. Tall 16mo., with engraved frontispiece and engraved title; attractively bound in contemporary full burgundy roan, sides with frame border enclosing geometric design all in gilt stopped at corners by arabesques in blind; back with four raised bands, second compartment lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments elaborately tooled in gilt and blind, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles, gilt doublures, blue endpapers, covers very lightly age-scuffed, extremities lightly rubbed else a very good, bright, clean copy. The frontispiece is engraved by Raimbach after Westall; the title by Rhodes after Westall. A remarkably well-preserved copy of a scarce and most attractive edition.

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Book number: 24570

Catalogue: Literature0

Keywords: literature, spenser, edmund spenser, faery queene, faerie queene