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 #916 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. One of the underrated books of the press. Ill.: Agnes Miller Parker. The spines of the dustwrappers slightly darkened with some chipping to the tips and the typical foxing to the side panels. Near Fine in Very Good dustwrappers and a Near Fine, intact slipcase with foxing to the paper spine label .

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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