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1862ref. 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 Spensers 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 versification 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
1953ref. 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
1825ref. 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
1953ref. 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
1968ref. USPEEDM00drpW. W. Norton & Company 1968. Very Good. Spenser Edmund. Edmund Spencer's Poetry. Maclean Hugh. NY: W. W. Norton & Company 1968. 662pp. Bibliography. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with bumped corners and chipping on top front edge. Weak front hinge. W. W. Norton & Company paperback books
1964ref. USPESEL00lhModern Library 1964. Very Good. Spenser Edmund. Selected Poetry of Edmund Spenser. Nelson William Editor. NY: Modern Library 1964. 612pp. Glossary. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt embossing. Book condition: Very good. Rubbed and bumped edges. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Chipping rubbing and small pieces missing on spine ends. Modern Library hardcover books
1980ref. USPEILL00acmfNewsweek 1980. Very Good. Spenser Edmund. The Illustrated Faerie Queene. Hill Douglas. NY: Newsweek 1980. 191pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Glossary. 4to. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with bumped spine ends. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with bumped edges. In DJ protector. Newsweek hardcover books
1968ref. USPEEDM00lhOdyssey 1968. Very Good. Spenser Edmund. Edmund Spenser: A Selection of His Works. Sowton Ian C. Editor. NY: Odyssey 1968. 457pp. Bibliography. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Rubbed. Odyssey paperback books
1932ref. 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
1803ref. 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
ref. 06429London: Published by George Allen 1897. The Most Important Work Illustrated by Walter Crane One of 1000 Copies Printed on Handmade Paper CRANE Walter illustrator. SPENSER Edmund. Spenser's Faerie Queene. A Poem in Six Books with the Fragment Mutabilitie. Edited by Thomas J. Wise. Pictured by Walter Crane. London: Published by George Allen 1897. First edition illustrated by Walter Crane. One of 1000 copies printed on handmade paper out of a total edition of 1028 copies. Originally issued in nineteen parts with wrappers also designed by Crane. Six quarto volumes 10 11/16 x 8 5/8 inches; 272 x 220 mm. Double-page general title in Volume I seven title-pages Volume I dated 1894 Volumes II-III dated 1895 and Volumes IV-XI dated 1896 and eighty-eight full-page woodcut illustrations including one double-page. With 132 head- and tail-pieces numerous decorative initials and printer's and publisher's colophons. Printed by the Chiswick Press. Bound by Zaehnsdorf stamp-signed in gilt on the front turn-in in full dark green crushed morocco. Covers decoratively tooled in gilt to match the original cover design spines decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt board edges and turn-ins green watered silk doublures and liners top edge gilt others uncut. Zaehnsdorf exhibition stamp in gilt on rear doublure. Original pink printed wrappers bound in. Spines uniformly faded otherwise a fine set. "The most important work in the whole long list of books illustrated by Walter Crane. If Crane's claim to greatness were based entirely on this work he would still retain his position in the front rank of nineteenth-century artists. The wealth of ideas and forms real and fantastic which are embodied in the actual illustrations and even more in the marvellous decorative border designs is almost incredible! Besides the numberless presentments of the human figure in all its manly vigour and womanly grace the whole range of nature's forms of animal and plant life of fabulous mythological inventions of allegorical personifications are worked into decorative designs of exquisite beauty. It would be petty nay foolish to try to find fault with certain very obvious shortcomings as regards anatomical drawing in a work which does not only stand unique as pure decoration but speaks of an amount of knowledge and a wealth of imagination that command unrestricted admiration and respect" Konody p. 71. Ashley V p. 196. Engen Crane p. 102. Massé pp. 47-48. London: Published by George Allen, 1897 unknown books
ref. 06420London: Scott Webster and Geary 1842. A Handsome Pall Mall Prize Binding: Spenser in Full Green Morocco with Institutional Supralibros and Country-House Provenance SPENSER Edmund. The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser. In five volumes. A new edition; with introductory and glossarial notes: to which is prefixed the account of the author's life and criticism of his works by John Aikin M.D. London: Scott Webster and Geary 1842. Five small octavo volumes 7 5/8 x 4 5/8 inches; 194 x 118 mm. Handsomely bound ca. 1842 in full green straight-grain morocco by White of 24 Pall Mall London with their printed binder's stamp on the front pastedown. Covers elaborately tooled in gilt with a wide fillet border and centrally stamped with the gilt supralibros of Downing's Academy incorporating an oval device enclosing an open book and the motto Domine illuminatio mea. Spines with five raised bands richly gilt in compartments with repeating floral and foliate tools red morocco lettering labels and volume numbers lettered in gilt. Board edges and turn-ins finely tooled marbled endpapers all edges gilt. A very attractive and well-preserved set the bindings bright and fresh with only minimal wear the gilt crisp and luminous. Provenance: Bound as a mid-nineteenth-century institutional or prize binding for Downing's Academy as evidenced by the gilt supralibros on each cover. Later in the library of William Carr 1862-1925 of Ditchingham Hall Norfolk historian and collector with his engraved armorial bookplate Ad sidera tollite vultus on the front pastedowns. With a later penciled bookseller's or shelf mark. This elegant five-volume Spenser represents the high standard of West End binding in the 1840s produced by the Pall Mall binder White whose work - while less frequently encountered than that of Zaehnsdorf or Bedford - embodies the same careful craftsmanship and decorative restraint characteristic of the period's best trade bindings. The use of straight-grain morocco combined with dense gilt ornament and repeating floral tools reflects the mid-Victorian taste for richly textured yet orderly decoration while the bold red labels provide a striking chromatic contrast against the deep green leather. Particularly appealing is the presence of the institutional supralibros indicating that the set was likely issued as a presentation or prize binding-a form of book production that often resulted in bindings of a higher-than-usual quality. Such volumes were intended to convey both scholarly merit and aesthetic distinction and frequently entered private libraries of substance as here. The later ownership of William Carr of Ditchingham Hall adds a further layer of interest situating the set within the tradition of nineteenth-century English country-house collecting where finely bound editions of canonical authors such as Spenser formed an essential component of the cultivated gentleman's library. London: Scott, Webster, and Geary, 1842 unknown books
1679ref. 16502London: Henry Hills for J. Edwin 1679. First complete edition. Near fine. Hardcover. Folio. xii339i168210-119-1114-258369-391ipp. Early full calf Cambridge-style binding rebacked in the 19th century with the spine in 7 compartments intricately gilt; leather label gilt. Engraved frontispiece. Each work has its own title page and for the first three begins the pagination anew though 'The Shepherds Calandar' is mispaginated in three places. 2A-Z4 Kk mismarked K Nn mismarked NAa-Zz4Aaa-Zzz4Aaaa-Iiii4Kkkk Aaaaa-Ccccc4. Laves A3 and A4 have a stain in the lower margin else this is very good. A handsome copy with an inscription dated 1891 probably the date of the reback. Unbeliveably quirky pagination and signature markings but complete. One of two states of this printing: This state shows two bars with catchword 'Calen-" on page 258 followed by p. 359 'Calendarium Pastorale'. A second state lacks the catchword has 'Finis' between the bars on p. 258 an advertisement leaf and then the 'Calendarium'. Carpenter p. 111. DNB suggests that this edition may have been edited by Dryden. Wing S4965. ESTC R7177. Henry Hills for J. Edwin unknown books
1991ref. 604192London: Gregg Revivals in Association with Department of War Studies King's College 1991. Hardcover. Fine. Reprint of a 1930 title. Octavo. 179 4pp. Illustrated. Gray cloth gilt. Fine this edition issued without dust jacket. Gregg Revivals in Association with Department of War Studies, King's College hardcover books
1957ref. 538318New York: Rinehart & Co 1957. Softcover. Good. Second printing. Edited with an introduction by Leo Kirschbaum. Trade paperback. xli 548pp. Pen and pencil underlining on some pages crease on front wrapper spine slightly cocked good only. Rinehart & Co unknown books
1957ref. 538389London: Oxford University Press 1957. Hardcover. Good/Good. Reprint. 736pp. Pen and pencil underlining throughout spine slightly cocked about very good in a good only dust jacket with spine and edges tanned one inch chip on top corner on rear panel tears on spine ends. Oxford University Press hardcover books
1939ref. 440300Madison New Jersey: Golden Hind Press 1939. Hardcover. Good. Limited edition this is number 5 of two-hundred and forty-five copies printed. Frontispiece tipped-in. Foreword by Sarah A. Davies. Originally tan papercovered boards red cloth with printed paper spine label. Pages unopened on top edges spine and edges lightly sunned boards are dampstained about very good without dustwrapper if issued. Signed by the printer A.W. Rushmore on the limitation page. Poetry. Golden Hind Press hardcover books
1905ref. 191961Oxford: Oxford / Clarendon Press 1905. Hardcover. Near Fine. New edition. Edited by G.W. Kitchin. With Glossary by A.L. Mayhew. 16mo. Maroon cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Binding lightly cocked corners and spine ends slightly bumped and worn very good. Important collector Lafeyette Lentz Butler's copy with his name and information on front pastedown; penciled underlining and marginalia throughout. Oxford / Clarendon Press hardcover books
1902ref. 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
1839ref. 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
1930ref. 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
1839ref. 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
1930ref. 52242Stratford-on-Avon: Printed at the Shakespeare Head St. Aldates Oxford & Published for the Press by Basil Blackwell 1930. Number 83 of 350 sets. Woodcuts by Hilda Quick headings and initials by Joscelyne Gaskin. 8 vols. 8vo. Half green calf over Cockerell marbled boards covers very slightly faded otherwise fine. Quick Hildsa. Number 83 of 350 sets. Woodcuts by Hilda Quick headings and initials by Joscelyne Gaskin. 8 vols. 8vo. Printed at the Shakespeare Head St. Aldates Oxford & Published for the Press by Basil Blackwell unknown books
1897ref. 1401574London: J.M. Dent 1897. Limited Edition 1/1250 Copies. Hardcover. Quartos Two Volumes 1153 2 pages continuous pagination. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in tan cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spines and boards gilt tops deckled fore-edges and bottoms. Mild shelf wear to boards including bumping with fraying to head tail and corners; sun-fading to spines and tops gilt affected lettering remains legible; rubbing with material loss to front board of Vol. I and spine of Vol. II; evidence of water damage to boards and paste-downs; adhesive residue from removed bookplates on front paste-downs; age-toning to text blocks; light age-toning to interior pages illustrations and text remains clear and legible. Shelved Above U.S. Political Bio. 1401574. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. J.M. Dent hardcover books
1992ref. 211460Univ of Washington Pr 1992. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 7x1x10. Dust jacket and book are clean has a very good binding no marks or notations. Univ of Washington Pr hardcover books
