Author: SPENSER, Edmund
Title: The Faerie Queene. Disposed Into Twelve Bookes Fashioning XII Morall Vertues (Faerie Queen)
Description: Oxford, Limited Editions Club, 1953. Hardcover. Two large quarto volumes (7-3/4" x 11-3/4") bound in gilt-decorated green cloth and illustrated with pen decorations by John Austen and wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. Copy #1185 of 1500 SIGNED by Parker on the colophon page. A nicely printed set retaining Spenser's original English and beautifully illustrated. The uncommon dustwrappers are present as is the slipcase. A lovely set of this, one of the underrated books of the press. Monthly Letter laid in. Ill.: Agnes Miller Parker. Small university bookplate on each front pastedown. The spines of the dustwrappers have just a touch of the sunning and none of the foxing on the panels usually found with this title. The slipcase is near pristine. Fine in close to Fine dustwrappers and a Fine slipcase .

Keywords: Signed, Agnes Miller Parker, John Austen, Wood Engravings, Limited Editions Club, LEC, Fine Press, Poetry, Illustrated Books, 16th Century Literature Agnes Miller Parker Signed Literature: English 16th Century Literature Illustrated Books


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