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SPENSER, Edmund (1552?-1599). The Works ... Whereunto is added, an Account of his Life; with other New Additions never before in Print. London: H. Hills for J. Edwin, 1679. 2° (306 x 195mm). Title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece (frontispiece mounted, tear in 4B2, rust-hole in Cc3 (light discolouration, a few minor stains). 18th-century half calf (covers detached). Provenance: From the Library of John Jackson (1793-1875) of Academy Place, Warrington (bookplate). Includes the first appearance of the View of Ireland and Bathurst's Latin version of the Shepheardes Calendar, also Brittain's Ida, now thought to be by Phineas Fletcher. Wing S4965; Pforzheimer 980.
[TASSO, Torquato (1544-1595)]. Godfrey of Boulogne: or the Recouerie of Ierusalem. Done into English Heroicall verse, by Edward Fairefax. London: [Eliot's Court Press for] John Bill, 1624. 2° (275 x 176mm). Title within a woodcut architectural border (without engraved portrait and extra leaf of verses, found in some copies, title cut round and mounted, A2 torn and crudely repaired, some waterstaining, soiling and discolouration). Contemporary calf, panels of spine ruled in gilt, sides ruled in blind (rather rubbed, new endpapers). Provenance: From the Library of John Jackson (1793-1875) of Academy Place, Warrington (bookplate). Third edition in English. STC 23699. (2)
[TASSO, Torquato (1544-1595)]. Godfrey of Boulogne: or the Recouerie of Ierusalem. Done into English Heroicall verse, by Edward Fairefax. London: [Eliot's Court Press for] John Bill, 1624. 2° (275 x 176mm). Title within a woodcut architectural border (without engraved portrait and extra leaf of verses, found in some copies, title cut round and mounted, A2 torn and crudely repaired, some waterstaining, soiling and discolouration). Contemporary calf, panels of spine ruled in gilt, sides ruled in blind (rather rubbed, new endpapers). Provenance: From the Library of John Jackson (1793-1875) of Academy Place, Warrington (bookplate). Third edition in English. STC 23699. (2)
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