![SPENSER, Edmund. Fowre Hymns [and Daphnaida]. London: [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, 1596.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2001/NYR/2001_NYR_09878_0343_000(033326).jpg?w=1)
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SPENSER, Edmund. Fowre Hymns [and Daphnaida]. London: [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, 1596.
4o (178 x 130 mm). Roman letter. Title with headpiece of snails in scrollwork and printer's anchor device (McKerrow 222). Separate title to Daphnaida with Field's smallest anchor device (McKerrow 164). Large woodcut opening initial, typographical headpieces. (Title lightly soiled, some letters restored in pen and repairs at margins, E1 with closed internal tear through seven lines of text, some running titles cropped, final leaf with small marginal repairs and residual soiling on blank verso.) Red morocco gilt, covers with triple fillet, gilt-panelled spine, gilt inner dentelles and comb-marbled endpapers, edges gilt, calf-backed brown cloth box, spine with green morocco lettering-pieces, by C. Lewis. Provenance: [William Pickering (bookseller's label)] -- J. Harsen Purdy (bookplate) -- Roderick Terry (bookplate) sold American Art Association, New York, 8 November 1934, lot 318 -- Lucius Wilmerding (bookplate) sold Parke-Bernet, New York, 27 November 1950, lot 673 -- Louis H. Silver (morocco label) sold in the Newberry Library sale of duplicates from the Silver accession, Sotheby's, London, 9 November 1965, lot 327, to John F. Fleming, New York, for £600 -- purchased from Fleming, 20 January 1969. Exhibited: Grolier Club, 'This powerfull rime', 1975, no. 5.
FIRST EDITION, second edition of the Daphnaida. Spenser's two hymns "in honour of love" and "in honour of beautie," amorous poems of his youth, are balanced by his maturer reflections on "heavenly love" and "heavenly beautie." The Daphnaida, first printed as a separate work in 1591, is "an elegie upon the death of ... Douglas Howard, daughter and heire of Henry Lord Howard, Viscount Byndon and wife of Arthur Gorges": the disconsolate husband is introduced as "Alcyon" (and again in the poem Colin Clout's come home again). Only three copies of the first edition of the Daphnaida are known. Ashley V, p. 196; Hayward 23; Grolier Langland to Wither 238; Johnson Spenser 17; Pforzheimer 974; STC 23086.
4o (178 x 130 mm). Roman letter. Title with headpiece of snails in scrollwork and printer's anchor device (McKerrow 222). Separate title to Daphnaida with Field's smallest anchor device (McKerrow 164). Large woodcut opening initial, typographical headpieces. (Title lightly soiled, some letters restored in pen and repairs at margins, E1 with closed internal tear through seven lines of text, some running titles cropped, final leaf with small marginal repairs and residual soiling on blank verso.) Red morocco gilt, covers with triple fillet, gilt-panelled spine, gilt inner dentelles and comb-marbled endpapers, edges gilt, calf-backed brown cloth box, spine with green morocco lettering-pieces, by C. Lewis. Provenance: [William Pickering (bookseller's label)] -- J. Harsen Purdy (bookplate) -- Roderick Terry (bookplate) sold American Art Association, New York, 8 November 1934, lot 318 -- Lucius Wilmerding (bookplate) sold Parke-Bernet, New York, 27 November 1950, lot 673 -- Louis H. Silver (morocco label) sold in the Newberry Library sale of duplicates from the Silver accession, Sotheby's, London, 9 November 1965, lot 327, to John F. Fleming, New York, for £600 -- purchased from Fleming, 20 January 1969. Exhibited: Grolier Club, 'This powerfull rime', 1975, no. 5.
FIRST EDITION, second edition of the Daphnaida. Spenser's two hymns "in honour of love" and "in honour of beautie," amorous poems of his youth, are balanced by his maturer reflections on "heavenly love" and "heavenly beautie." The Daphnaida, first printed as a separate work in 1591, is "an elegie upon the death of ... Douglas Howard, daughter and heire of Henry Lord Howard, Viscount Byndon and wife of Arthur Gorges": the disconsolate husband is introduced as "Alcyon" (and again in the poem Colin Clout's come home again). Only three copies of the first edition of the Daphnaida are known. Ashley V, p. 196; Hayward 23; Grolier Langland to Wither 238; Johnson Spenser 17; Pforzheimer 974; STC 23086.