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SPENSER'S FAERIE QUEENE: A Poem in Six Books with the Fragment Mutabilitie
by Spenser, Edmund
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
-
Covina, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: George Allen, 1897. Hardcover. Very good. The celebrated Walter Crane edition, limited to 1,000 sets printed on handmade paper. Crane's illustrations for The Faerie Queene were the most ambitious of his career. Overall, they took him three years to complete, and in the end he had finished 88 large illustrations and 135 illustrative head and tailpieces. The Faerie Queene was an appropriate poem to be illustrated by Crane, who preferred engraving in thick black lines and working in woodblock prints as Medieval craftsmen, such as Albrecht Durer, would have done. Edited by Thomas J. Wise. Quarto, six volumes. In three-quarter black morocco over marbled paper bindings, with decorative gilt stamping, five raised bands, marbled endpapers, and a ribbon marker. The armorial bookplate of Arthur G. Soames, the father-in-law of Mary Soames, Winston Churchill's youngest daughter, appears on each front pastedown. A few tiny nicks along the extremities; otherwise very good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Johnson Rare Books & Archives
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 76196
- Title
- SPENSER'S FAERIE QUEENE: A Poem in Six Books with the Fragment Mutabilitie
- Author
- Spenser, Edmund
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- George Allen
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1897
- Keywords
- Poetry, English Literature, Renaissance, Illustrated Books, Fine Binding
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Johnson Rare Books & Archives
Biblio member since 2008
Covina, California
About Johnson Rare Books & Archives
Established in 1981, johnson rare books & archives is located in the heart of downtown Covina, about 20 miles east of Los Angeles. Our shop is currently open by appointment Thursday - Saturday from 11am - 6pm (please call ahead) and houses an inventory of some 30,000 titles, ranging from the general second-hand to the truly antiquarian. For more information, visit our website at www.johnsonrarebooks.com or call 1-626-967-1888.
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
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