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1908réf. 46021Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press 1908. Very Good . Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press 1908. Cambridge Edition. Octavo 21cm; contemporary three-quarter green calf over marbled paper-covered boards two green gilt-lettered morocco spine labels spine in six compartments ruled in gilt top edge gilt marbled endpapers; 852pp.; portrait frontispiece. Brief scuffing to leather margins spine very slightly sunned ownership inscription dated 1914 to front flyleaf else a Very Good or better example. Forms part of the Cambridge Edition of the Poets. Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press unknown books
réf. 51543Unbound. Near Fine. One page Autograph Letter Signed. Near fine folded as mailed with some light soiling. unknown books
réf. 4666ROGERS. ROGERS SPENSER Edmund. PROTHALAMION: EPITHALAMION. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1902. Small folio. Boards. 29 1 pages. One of 419 copies. Warde 32. G.P. Winship's copy with his signature. The book features illustrations in old red on India paper from drawings by Edwin H. Blashfield. Head of spine chipped and minor cover rubbing. unknown books
1903réf. 364712New York: Thomas Y. Crowell 1903. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The Gladstone Edition. Introduction by William P. Trent. Award of merit label on front pastedown fine i about very good printed dustwrapper with a chip on the front panel and tears along a couple of the folds. Scarce in jacket. Thomas Y. Crowell hardcover books
1953réf. 019927Oxford: Limited Editions Club 1953. Hardcover. Near Fine in slightly foxed Very Good dustwrappers with sunned spines and chipping at the tips in a Very Good slipcase. Agnes Miller Parker. Two large quarto volumes 7-3/4" x 11-3/4" bound in gilt-decorated green cloth and illustrated with pen decorations by John Austen and wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. Copy #323 of 1500 SIGNED by Parker on the colophon page. A nicely printed set retaining Spenser's original English and beautifully illustrated. One of the underrated books of the press. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1923réf. 33330950Waltham Saint Lawrence Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press 1923. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. White Ethelbert. One of 350 copies on paper duodecimo size 49 pp. Edmund Spenser 1552/3 to 1599 is probably best known for his epic poem "The Faerie Queene" an ode to Elizabeth I. Even today he is considered one of the greatest poets of the English language. This work "The Wedding Songs" is a publication uniting two works which were published a year apart both dealing with love and romance. According to "Chanticleer" this is the first work of the Press to be illustrated with wood-engravings; however they go on to state that "there is no great feeling of harmony between the engravings and the type" p. 16. We find the three wood-engravings charming; Ethelbert White 1892-1972 was a founding member of the English Wood Engraving Society beginning his career with water colour but being introduced to wood-engraving in 1920. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter linen white paper spine label with black lettering blue paper sides over boards fore- and bottom edges uncut the frontispiece one of three wood engravings and the only one in three colours rust green and yellow the other two only in rust; Caslon type on hand-made unbleached Arnold paper duodecimo size 7 3/8" by 4 1/2" pagination: 1-8 9-46 47 final wood-engraving 48 colophon 49 publisher's device; no. 329 of the 350 copies on paper per the bibliography; note that the colophon states 320 copies on paper there were an additional 25 copies on Japanese vellum. ___CONDITION: Volume near fine with clean boards perfectly straight corners with a hint of rubbing a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; some sunning to the margins of the board edges and some offsetting and light foxing to the endpapers. ___CITATION: Chanticleer no. 14. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Golden Cockerel Press hardcover books
1902réf. 6313Berkeley: Privately Printed by Thomas Maitland Cleland at The Cornhill Press 1902. 12mo. Oblong booklet in original brown wrappers ties at spine. Eight pages unopened. 75 Copies Only. An early printing by Cleland under the imprint of his newly expanded Cornhill Press in Boston. Fine. Most scarce. Privately Printed by Thomas Maitland Cleland at The Cornhill Press unknown books
1898réf. 1717First American edition. Octavo. 12 full-page b/w illustrations text borders pictorial endpapers and cover designs by Walter Crane. Original pictorial green cloth with color illustrations on spine and both covers top edge stained green uncut joints cracked. No dust jacket. Good. Ink inscription of the first preliminary page: "Abbie Burr from Clara F. Palmer." Harper hardcover books
1953réf. 017393Oxford: Limited Editions Club 1953. Hardcover. The spines of the dustwrappers slightly darkened with some chipping to the tips and the typical foxing to the side panels. Near Fine in Very Good dustwrappers and a Near Fine intact slipcase with foxing to the paper spine label. Agnes Miller Parker. Two large quarto volumes 7-3/4" x 11-3/4" bound in gilt-decorated green cloth and illustrated with pen decorations by John Austen and wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. Copy #916 of 1500 SIGNED by Parker on the colophon page. A nicely printed set retaining Spenser's original English and beautifully illustrated. The uncommon dustwrappers are present as is the slipcase. One of the underrated books of the press. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1902réf. 1006531902. SPENCER Edmund. Prothalamion and Epithalamion. 28 2 pp. Small folio bound in deluxe three-quarter teal morocco matching buff paper over boards. Deckled edge. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1902. A fine edition of Spencer's famous poetical celebrations of marriage designed and printed by Bruce Rogers with delicate headpiece illustrations and vignettes by Edwin Howland Blashfield. A fine copy in a deluxe binding printed on handmade paper. One of 419 copies. hardcover books
1909réf. 199448Cambridge England: University Press 1909. Copies 173 of 350. Hardcover. Good Boards are edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; inner hinges are cracked; textblock edges are toned/scuffed/smudged; interior is clean with the occasional smudging and foxing; inner hinges of volume one has been reinforced with tape that is coming loose; textblocks appear solid. Half-bound beige boards; 2 volumes; 544 494 pp. unopened. "Of this edition printed in the Cambridge type upon hand-made paper three hundred & fifty coies have been printed of which three hundred numbered -- are for sale in England and America and the type has been distributed." The text of Books I to VI is that of the edition of 1596; the fragment of Book VII is from the folio edition of 1609. The letter to Sir Walter Raleigh and the prefatory verses are from the edition of 1590. -- inside book. University Press hardcover books
1909réf. 53839Cambridge: University Press 1909. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. 89/300. Small Folio. 6 543 1 6 493 1pp. Original beige half cloth over light brown paper-covered boards with black lettering on paper label of spines; protected by modern mylar. Engraved emblem on title page. Decorative endpieces. Printed in Cambridge type on handmade paper with 350 copies printed of which three hundred numbered copies are for sale in England and America. This is copye 89. The text here given of Books I to VI of The Faerie Queene is that of the edition of 1596 in two volumes quarto. Of these two volumes the first contains the second edition of Books I to III which had already appeared in 1590. Books IV to VI were printed for the first time in 1596. The fragment of Book VII is from the folio edition of 1609. The Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh and the verses addressed to and by Spenser are from the edition of 1590. A few misprints have been corrected as listed on final tow pages of volume one. Bottom and foredges uncut. Light wear along edges of covers. Paper label of volume one with chips some loss of lettering volume two minor w/o loss of lettering. Two small square dicolorations on front covers of both volumes tape residue. Back cover of volume one with small scuff. Some light damp-staining on free endpapers minimal in volume two. University Press hardcover books
1839réf. 374600Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown 1839. First American edition. 5 vols. 8vo. Original brown cloth spined titled in gilt boards tamped in blind. Some foxing overall a bright and fresh set. Very good plus. First American edition. 5 vols. 8vo. This edition anonymously edited by G. S. Hillard includes a lengthy introductory essay "An Essay on the Life and Writings of Edmund Spenser" anonymous but by George Robinson according to Lowndes republished from the five-volume Pickering edition of Spencer published in 1825 which according to Hillard "was taken as the basis of the present one . The Introductory Observations upon the 'Faerie Queene' the glossarial and explanatory notes have been added by the present editor" Uncommon set in nice condition. NCBEL I 1030; Lowndes p. 2477 Charles C. Little and James Brown unknown books
1852réf. 008305London: William Pickering 1852. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Later Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Five volumes in contemporary pebbled brown morocco gilt lettering tooled in blind all edges gilt marbled end papers. Near Fine light rubibing light toning at end pages occasional scattered toning. A well-bound set. . William Pickering Hardcover books
1953réf. 014490Oxford: Limited Editions Club 1953. Hardcover. Spines of the dustwrappers are a bit darkened but with none of the foxing on the panels usually found with this title. The slipcase is near pristine. Fine in Near Fine dustwrappers and a Fine slipcase. Agnes Miller Parker. Two large quarto volumes 7-3/4" x 11-3/4" bound in gilt-decorated green cloth and illustrated with pen decorations by John Austen and wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. Copy #325 of 1500 SIGNED by Parker on the colophon page. A nicely printed set retaining Spenser's original English and beautifully illustrated. The uncommon dustwrappers are present as is the slipcase. A lovely set of this one of the underrated books of the press. Monthly Letter laid in. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1839réf. 244700London: William Pickering 1839. First edition and part of the Aldine Poets series. With Portrait Frontispiece. Printed by Charles Whittingham. 5 vols. 8vo. Bound in contemporary pebbled morocco and marbled boards edges marbled. Very good. First edition and part of the Aldine Poets series. With Portrait Frontispiece. Printed by Charles Whittingham. 5 vols. 8vo. Keynes p. 48 William Pickering unknown books
1839réf. 35683London: William Pickering 1839. Small 8vo 5 volumes Pickering's vignette anchor & dolphin device on title pages; early 20th century half brown morocco by Riviere gilt paneled spines in 6 compartments gilt lettered in 2 t.e.g.; fine set. Issued as part of the publisher's Aldine British Poets series. Contains a life of Spenser by the Rev. J. Mitford. William Pickering unknown books
1839réf. 24247London: William Pickering 1839. leather_bound. Decorated full polished green calf. Top edges gilt. Near fine. 5 Vols. 282 295 296 303 317 pages 16.5 x 10.5 cm. The Aldine Edition. One of the great poets of the English Renaissance. Spenser was well-read in classical literature scholars have noted that his poetry does not rehash tradition but rather is distinctly his. Walter Raleigh wrote a commendatory poem to The Faerie Queene in 1590 in which he claims to admire and value Spenser's work more so than any other in the English language. Bright fresh set with the memorable gilt Aldine anchor front covers and bound by Bartlett. Raised bands panels decorated in gilt brown spine labels gilt lettered marbled endpapers gilt turn-ins. One volume with slight sunning front cover head. William Pickering unknown books
1825réf. 9006102London: William Pickering; Nattali and Combe; Talboys and Wheeler 1825. Hardcover. Fine Condition. Bound in half brown leather and light green marlbed boards with the covers and spines stamped in gilt. Beautiful floral leaf pattern on the spines. Four raised bands on the spines. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. William Pickering; Nattali and Combe; Talboys and Wheeler hardcover books
1908réf. 295486Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1908. hardcover. fine. 852 pages handsomely rebound in full black morocco ornately gilt spine and covers a. edges gilt. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1908. Fine. Houghton Mifflin unknown books
1803réf. 54894London: Printed by and for C. and R. Baldwin 1803. Very good. First edition of this collection celebrating the revival of the sonnet tracing its history from Spenser to Shakespeare and Milton through contemporaries Charlotte Smith Mary Robinson and a young Leigh Hunt. The English sonnet fell out of fashion in the early 18th century only to come roaring back to popularity with the publication of Charlotte Smith's ELEGIAC SONNETS in 1784. But this volume provides a much wider and more nuanced picture of the development of the English sonnet including Smith's predecessor Thomas Edwards and her contemporaries Anna Seward whom Henderson especially likes William Lisle Bowles Helen Maria Williams and Mary Robinson. Henderson's introduction contextualizes the wide range of sonnets included from the amatory Robinson to the elegiac Smith. This compendium established the state of playing field for the form in the Romantic era and it was a favorite form of Coleridge Keats Shelley and Wordsworth. Coleridge wrote a pamphlet celebrating the form in 1796 and the first poem Wordsworth published was "Sonnet on Seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep" in 1787 an homage to Williams and Charlotte Smith both. A notable Romantic-era collection unusual in so widely acknowledging the debts of English poetry to women writers. Contemporary half roan marbled paper boards gilt-ruled and -lettered spine. Red speckled edges. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece and two further full-page engravings by T.W. Tomkins after P. Henderson. xl 192 pages. Some pencil notes to endpapers. Binding rubbed at extremities some foxing largely marginal to first few gatherings. Printed by and for C. and R. Baldwin unknown books
1859réf. 320589Edinburgh: James Nichol 1859. hardcover. near fine. 5 volumes. slim 8vo 3/4 decorative green morocco evenly faded to brown top edges gilt light scattered foxing. Edinburgh: James Nichol 1859. A very handsome set. James Nichol unknown books
1930réf. 369955London: The Cresset Press 1930. One of 350 copies. With frontispiece and twelve chapter headings by John Nash all hand-stencilled in color at the Curwen Press. 1 vols. Tall 4to. Original cream silk-covered boards vellum spine t.e.g. others uncut. Fine fresh copy. Nash John. One of 350 copies. With frontispiece and twelve chapter headings by John Nash all hand-stencilled in color at the Curwen Press. 1 vols. Tall 4to. A lovely book printed on handmade paper in Granjon Old Face used here for the first time it was designed by the printer of the book George W. Jones. Ransom Check Lists 20 The Cresset Press unknown books
1862réf. 738351862. SPENSER Edmund. The Works of Edmund Spenser. Edited by J. Payne Collier. London: Bell and Daldy Chiswick Press 1862. Five volumes. Tall octavo contemporary full dark green crushed morocco gilt raised bands marbled endpapers all edges gilt. $900.Splendid Chiswick Press edition of SpenserÕs works with biography by J. Payne Collier very handsomely bound in full morocco-gilt. A lovely set.Of Spenser Robert Southey wrote ""He is the great master of English versificationÑ incomparably the greatest master in our language."" This edition features a biography of Spenser by the current editor J. Payne Collier. ""For the original language of the poet"" Collier acknowledges ""I was of course mainly indebted to the two issues of The Fairy Queen; the first three books in 1590 and the whole six books in 1596."" He corrects many of the errors of textual transcription contained in the earlier Todd editions. The Chiswick Press is credited with the revival of fine printing in England when in 1844 it brought Caslon type back into use. Bookplate of Lamberton Castle.A most handsome about-fine copy in contemporary morocco-gilt. hardcover books
1932réf. 7046Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press.and Published for the Press by Basil Blackwell 1932. First Thus. Very Good. One of 375 numbered copies on Batchelor's Shakespeare Head handmade paper this copy being number 134 out of a total edition of 386 copies. Eight volumes large octavo 11 3/16 x 7 1/8 inches; 285 x 194 mm. Bound in the original quarter green calf over marbled boards by Douglas Cockerell. Vellum tips. Spines lettered and dated in gilt. Edges untrimmed. With 111 woodcut illustrations decorations and title vignettes after and by Hilda Quick all hand-colored except for five that are printed in red and black. A Vewe of the Present State of Ireland with pictorial woodcut title-page border and woodcut frontispiece map of Ireland by Macdonald Gill both hand-colored. Lettering for half-titles title-pages headings and initials printed in red black and blue after designs by Joscelyne Gaskin some shoulder notes printed in red with occasional text printed in red and black. Some scuffing to boards and rubbing to spines. Mid-twentieth-century ink ownership inscriptions in first two volumes. Bright and fresh throughout. A Very Good set. "The text of the present edition of Spenser's Works has been prepared by Professor W.L. Renwick. It follows in every case the first editions.The decorations have been designed and engraved on wood by Hilda Quick those in The Shepheardes Calender being based on the cuts in the original editions. The initial letters and the letterings for the title- page and headings have been engraved by her from designs by Joscelyne Gaskin.The eight volumes of Spenser 1930 are equally good-different as the character of the author is but in merita nothing to choose between them. Perhaps the small devices below Spenser's sonnets printed in black and in the vellum copies beautifully laid with gold are the most discreet and opulent form of decoration fitting and in flawless taste" Franklin. Franklin 150 236. Ransom 17:67. Very Good. Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press...and Published for the Press by Basil Blackwell unknown books
