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Edmund Spenser; Rev Alexander B GrosartBiblio.com

The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser

1844ref. 864N58-: Printed for Private Circulation 1844-1884. First edition. Cloth. Good Only. 8" by 5". None. A privately printed set of the complete works of Edmund Spenser. With illustrations and a biographical introduction to the sixteenth century poet. A privately printed set of the complete works of Edmund Spenser with an autobiographical introduction by the literary editor Alexander Grossart. With four illustrations to volume I collated but Hamerton's Woodcuts and the facsimile called for. With three illustrations to volume III collated but lacking frontispiece. With two illustrations to volume V collated and complete. Only 150 copies of this set were printed for private circulation only. Complete in nine volumes. Whilst the title pages in the set state ten volumes the final book was not published. Grossart provides a detailed biographical introduction to the sixteenth century poet in the first volume which is followed by Spenser's first major work The Shepheardes Calendar. This is followed by Complaints his collection of poems that mournfully or mockingly express the poet's grievances and his narrative elegy for the heiress Douglas Howar Daphnaida. Spenser's celebrates the Tudor dynasty in allegorical poem The Faerie Queen which can be found in volumes five to seven followed by a collection of his letters. The prior owner's pencil inscription can be found to the half title or the recto of the front endpaper of the volumes 'S. B. M. In a full green cloth binding. Externally generally smart. Bumped to the head and the tail of the spines with some closed tears to each across the set. Lightly bumped to the extremities. The front hinge has failed to volumes I and IX and the rear hinge has failed to volume IV but the spines have been re-adhered to all three volumes. Both hinges are starting but firm to volume II the front hinge is starting to volume VII and the rear hinges is starting but firm to volumes V and IX. Internally the binding is strained to volumes I IV and IX with the front endpaper disbound to the latter volume. Otherwise the volumes are generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean across the set. Good Only Printed for Private Circulation hardcover

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Edmund Spenser; Edited by Henry John ToddBiblio.com

The Works of Edmund Spenser In Eight Volumes With the Principal Illustrations of Various Commentators. To Which are Added Notes Some Account of the Life of Spenser and A Glossarial and Other Indexes by the Reverend Henry John Todd

1805ref. SET25-F-4London : F. C. and J. Rivington 1805. Leather. Very Good. 8" by 5";. None. A set of the poetical works of Edmund Spenser widely regarded as one of the greatest English poets. Containing all his best-known poetry including The Faerie Queen April and Astrophel. Spenser's masterpiece is an extensive poem The Faerie Queene. The first three books of The Faerie Queene were published in 1590 and a second set of three books were published in 1596. This extended epic poem deals with the adventures of knights dragons ladies in distress etc. yet it is also an extended allegory about the moral life and what makes for a life of virtue. With engraved frontispiece of Spenser to Volume I. Spenser was called a Poet's Poet and was admired by William Wordsworth John Keats Lord Byron and Alfred Lord Tennyson among others. The language of his poetry is purposely archaic reminiscent of earlier works such as The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer and Il Canzoniere of Francesco Petrarca whom Spenser greatly admired. Spenser's Epithalamion is the most admired of its type in the English language. It was written for his wedding to his young bride Elizabeth Boyle. The poem consists of 365 long lines corresponding to the days of the year; 68 short lines representing the sum of the 52 weeks 12 months and 4 seasons of the annual cycle; and 24 stanzas corresponding to the diurnal and sidereal hours. Complete in eight volumes. Rebound in half-morocco bindings with marbled boards and original spine labels. Externally smart with some minor wear to the spines and some sunfading to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Institutional stamps to recto of front free-endpaper. Pages are spotted with some foxing throughout. Very Good F. C. and J. Rivington hardcover

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