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SPENSER, Edmund (?1552-1599). Spenser's Faerie Queene A poem in six books with the fragment mutabilitie. Edited by Thomas J. Wise. London: Charles Whittingham & Co. for George Allen, 1894-1897.
19 parts bound in 6 volumes, 4° (275 x 215mm). Decorative volume titles, half-titles, head- and tail-pieces, and numerous full-page illustrations, all after Walter Crane. Contemporary purple morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, covers with quadruple fillet borders, spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and fourth, gilt turn-ins, original decorative parts-wrappers and parts-titles bound at the end of the appropriate volume, top edges gilt (very slight fading of spines).
LIMITED EDITION OF 1,000 COPIES ON HANDMADE PAPER. The first appearance of Crane's visual interpretation of Spenser's celebrated allegory. (6)
19 parts bound in 6 volumes, 4° (275 x 215mm). Decorative volume titles, half-titles, head- and tail-pieces, and numerous full-page illustrations, all after Walter Crane. Contemporary purple morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, covers with quadruple fillet borders, spines in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and fourth, gilt turn-ins, original decorative parts-wrappers and parts-titles bound at the end of the appropriate volume, top edges gilt (very slight fading of spines).
LIMITED EDITION OF 1,000 COPIES ON HANDMADE PAPER. The first appearance of Crane's visual interpretation of Spenser's celebrated allegory. (6)
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