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ASHENDENE PRESS -- SPENSER, Edmund (1552-99). The Faerie Queene disposed into Twelve Bookes fashioning XII. Morall Vertues. Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1923. 2° (430 x 300mm). Subiaco type, printed in black, red and blue in double column, initials designed by Graily Hewitt. Original calf-backed vellum, spine with raised bands and lettered in gilt, uncut. Provenance: William Henry Smith, 3rd Viscount Hambleden (1903-1948; book label).
ASHENDENE PRESS -- SPENSER, Edmund (1552-99). The Faerie Queene disposed into Twelve Bookes fashioning XII. Morall Vertues. Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1923. 2° (430 x 300mm). Subiaco type, printed in black, red and blue in double column, initials designed by Graily Hewitt. Calf-backed vellum by W.H. Smith and Son, with their stamp, spine with raised bands and lettered in gilt, uncut. Provenance: William Henry Smith, 3rd Viscount Hambleden (1903-1948; book label).

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ASHENDENE PRESS -- SPENSER, Edmund (1552-99). The Faerie Queene disposed into Twelve Bookes fashioning XII. Morall Vertues. Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1923. 2° (430 x 300mm). Subiaco type, printed in black, red and blue in double column, initials designed by Graily Hewitt. Calf-backed vellum by W.H. Smith and Son, with their stamp, spine with raised bands and lettered in gilt, uncut. Provenance: William Henry Smith, 3rd Viscount Hambleden (1903-1948; book label).

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