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1897rif. 4803London George Allen 1897 Très bel exemplaire de la première édition. Six volumes. Édité par Thomas J. Wise et avec les fabuleuses illustrations art nouveau de Walter Crane. Un des 1000 exemplaires non numérotés sur papier fait main imprimés par Charles Whittingham & Co. à la presse de Chiswick. Les couvertures souples originales des parties ont été conservées et reliées à l'arrière. Récemment réparé / ré-épinglé en cuir rouge avec les planches d'origine en cuir rouge. Certaines planches présentent quelques taches, mais dans l'ensemble elles sont en très bon état. A l'intérieur, les livres sont sains, mais les bords sont légèrement assombris. Un bon exemplaire. lxxxvii, 1-248 [i], [couvertures], viii, 251-528, [couvertures], viii, 529-806, [couvertures], viii, 807-1044, [couvertures], viii, 1045-1276, [couvertures], viii, 1277-1546, [8], [couvertures].
1720rif. 43CGO.J. (um 1720). Kupferstich (Brustbild mit ovaler Umrahmung) von G. Vertue (1684-1756). Bildgrösse: 15,5 x 10 cm. Blattgrösse: 17 x 11 cm.
rif. 4531London: Various printers details below. 1591- 1596. A remarkable volume containing 3 separately-printed works including the first editions of the second part Cantos 4-6 of The Faerie Queene 1596 and Colin Clouts Come Home Againe 1595. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 17th c. calf the boards gilt-ruled in compartments with ornamental tools at the corners and a large stamp of the Tudor arms at the center of each board hinges and endcaps restored corners bumped later label lacking ties. Inscriptions: In the Shepheards Calender 1. Contemporary signature of Roger Collings on p. 1; 2. Inscription in Latin on title page “To the library of Lord John Bond as a gift by Monsieur Bloncq i.e. Blanc A.D. 1627”. 3. Also on t.p. “Lady Carew” and “June 27 1669” perhaps Mary Morice of Wirrington d. 1698 Lady Carew. 4. Unidentified armorial stamp on verso of t.p. For condition of contents see individual entries below. 5. Another -and quite marvelous- contemporary inscription on the third preliminary leaf of the Shepheards Calender: “This is Robard Batmans Booke and he that steale et shall be hanged vpon A Roke as Hy as he cane loke.”. I. THE SHEPHEARDS CALENDER. London: Printed by Iohn Windet for Iohn Harrison the yonger dwelling in Pater-noster roe at the signe of the Anger 1591. Quarto: 4 52 lvs. Collation: 4 A-N4 3 preliminary leaves supplied and genuine. FOURTH EDITION. 1st ed. pub. 1579. Title within woodcut border McKerrow & Ferguson 198. The text is illustrated with 12 woodcut vignettes one for each month. Restorations to inner margin of title with some loss to the lefthand portion of the woodcut border small repair to upper outer corner no loss 3 preliminary leaves following title supplied from a shorter copy blank lower margin restored. The woodcut for April shows Queen Elizabeth and her entourage. “This and the edition of 1586 are counterparts of each other… The illustrations are printed from the same blocks; the type however was reset there being slight differences in spelling etc. and the printer’s ornaments at the foot of the eclogues are different.” Langland to Wither No. 229 p. 199-200 “Published in 1579 a decade before ‘The Faerie Queene’ this book of pastorals established Spenser as the leading poet of his generation. Its editor one "E.K." never identified but clearly someone associated with Spenser heralded the work as a major literary event and its author as ‘our new poet.’ It was reprinted four times in Spenser's lifetime and evoked imitations and admiring comments almost from the date of its publication. Spenserians and traditional literary historians still take ‘The Shepheardes Calender’ at E.K.'s valuation and treat it not without reason as inaugurating the great age of Elizabethan poetry… It was the first set of English pastorals in the European tradition and in emulating Virgil's Eclogues it self-consciously inaugurated a poetic career on the model of Virgil's-one that would move from a book of eclogues to a national epic.”Alpers Pastoral and the Domain of Lyric in Spenser's Shepheardes Calender “’The Shepheardes Calender’ was entered into the Stationers' register on 5 December 1579 and was published by the protestant publisher Hugh Singleton soon after that date as the poem bears the imprint 1579 indicating that it must have appeared before the end of February. The ‘Calender’ was a popular work and was reprinted in 1581 1586 1591 and 1597 demonstrating that Spenser did make an impact as 'our new poet'. It contains twelve poems complete with prefatory comments and notes by E. K. which may or may not have been written by Spenser himself and Gabriel Harvey and a series of emblematic woodcuts of allegorical significance. The poems describe events in the lives of a series of fictional shepherds and vary from apparently personal laments on the nature of loss and unrequited love to stringent ecclesiastical satire and attacks on corruption and court patronage. They comment on the nature of love and devotion the pains of exile praise for the queen forms of worship the duties of church ministers forms of poetry the merits of protestantism and Catholicism and impending death. Equally important is the showy technical proficiency of the works and the ways in which the poems and commentary serve to announce the arrival of a major new English poet.”Hadfield Oxford DNB ESTC S111267; STC 23092; Langland to Wither 229; Johnson Edmund Spenser 4; Luborsky & Ingram. Engl. illustrated books 1536-1603 23092 II. THE FAERIE QUEENE Disposed into twelue bookes fashioning XII. morall vertues First and Second Parts. London: Printed by Richard Field for William Ponsonbie 1596 Quarto: 2 590; 518 p. Collation: Part 1: A-Z8 Aa-Oo8; Part 2: A-Z8 signature Z supplied from another smaller copy Aa-Ii8 Kk4. SECOND EDITION OF THE FIRST PART 1st ed. pub. 1590 FIRST EDITION OF THE SECOND PART. With a full-page woodcut at the beginning of book two p. 184 depicting the Red Cross Knight slaying the dragon. Ornamental metal-cut cartouches frame the argument at the opening of each canto. Light dampstain to lower margin of scattered gatherings in second part a bit stronger in gathering Cc. The supplied gathering Z is shorter and lightly damp-stained and yellowed. Short worm-trail in lower margin of Dd-Ff in second part not intruding on the text. A few small rust marks. “’The Faerie Queene’ was a new departure in the history of English poetry being a combination of Italian romance classical epic and native English styles principally derived from Chaucer. Spenser signalled this by inventing a new stanza which has come to be known as the Spenserian stanza a hybrid form adopted from the Scots poetry of James I ‘rhyme royal’ and Italian ‘ottava rima’. It contained nine lines the first eight being pentameters and the last line an alexandrine and employed the rhyme scheme ababbcbcc. It was accompanied by seventeen dedicatory sonnets to a variety of figures… addressed to a range of important courtiers among them: Sir Christopher Hatton; Robert Devereux second earl of Essex; Sir William Cecil Lord Burghley; Edward de Vere seventeenth earl of Oxford; Sir Francis Walsingham; Sir Walter Ralegh; Mary Sidney countess of Pembroke; Lady Carew; and 'all the gratious and beautifull Ladies of the Court'… “The poem has survived as a long fragment of six completed books each of twelve cantos of lengths varying from forty to eighty stanzas. A further fragment of a seventh book published after Spenser's death consisted of two complete cantos and two stanzas from a third. There was also a letter appended from the author to Ralegh dated 23 January 1589 explaining the allegorical method of the 'Poet historical'. Scholars are divided on the question of the extant nature of the poem some concluding that Spenser never really intended to complete it others that had he lived longer all twelve books would have emerged… “’The Faerie Queene’ tells a series of discrete but interrelated stories based around the quests of six knights who each represent a particular virtue. Its allegory is flexible and moves easily from the historically specific to deal with theological philosophical and ethical questions many based on readings of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics a stated source of the poem. Book 1 tells the story of the redcross knight eventually revealed to be the patron saint of England St George who has to destroy the dragon who holds captive the parents of his lady Una. As with all romances the narrative moves sideways as much as forwards a process known as dilation and a whole series of episodes represent events and problems precipitated by the Reformation. The lovers are united but significantly the knight is recalled to his service to Gloriana the faerie queen before they can get married. Book 2 charts the progress of the knight of temperance Sir Guyon culminating in the famous description of his destruction of the Bower of Bliss an episode which has inspired commentators artists and writers ever since. Guyon's undoubted virtue is shown to be limited when he is defeated by the knight of chastity Britomart the heroine of book 3. While Guyon can only refuse and oppose bodily temptation Britomart is able to experience corporeal ecstasies and agonies and so point to a way beyond the limits of temperance for those who have to live in the ordinary world. Britomart in pointed contrast to the real queen of England the virginal Elizabeth sees her husband-to-be Artegall in Merlin's magic mirror and the dynasty that she will found stretching into the future. The first edition of The Faerie Queene concluded with the striking image of the hermaphrodite created through the passionate embrace of the rescued lovers Amoret and Scudamore a sign that human experience could be equal and satisfying through the institution of marriage. “The second edition of the poem 1596 is generally agreed to be a darker and more diffuse work. Book 4 the legend of Friendship has two central figures Cambel and Telamond who occupy only a small section of the narrative. Many commentators argue that the original version of the poem that circulated in manuscript in the early 1580s consisted of portions of books 3 and 4 later worked into the printed version with varying success. The book contains the famous description of the marriage of the Thames and the Medway—again probably adapted from an earlier work or version of the poem. Book 5 the legend of Justice follows the adventures of Artegall Britomart's future spouse. This has generally been the least popular section of the poem because of its disturbing defence of English policy in Ireland and more overtly its historical allegory but it has recently received far more attention for the very reason that it was previously ignored. Artegall abandoned by his tutor Astrea has to resolve a number of difficult disputes foolishly falls prey to the Amazon Radigund and has to be rescued by Britomart before his violent suppression of rebellion in Ireland is prematurely truncated by Gloriana. Book 6 the legend of Courtesy depicts the adventures of Sir Calidore a confused and misdirected knight who tries to give up his elusive quest for the Blatant Beast when he stumbles across a pastoral world at odds with the courtly world he is less than keen to defend. The book like its predecessor is replete with disturbing images of violent disruption principally of disguised rebels ambushing small peasant communities undoubtedly an echo of Spenser's experience in Ireland. It ends when Calidore finally manages to capture the Blatant Beast but it escapes to terrorize the world with its awful slanders which include attacks on the poet himself.”Hadfield Oxford DNB ESTC S117748; STC 23082; Langland to Wither 233; Pforzheimer 970; Johnson Edmund Spenser 11; Luborsky & Ingram. Engl. illustrated books 1536-1603 23082 III. COLIN CLOUTS COME HOME AGAINE. London: Ponsonbie 1595 Quarto: 80 p. Signatures: A-K4 FIRST EDITION. The colophon reads: “London Printed by T.C. for William Ponsonbie. 1595.” With a woodcut printer’s device McKerrow 299 and decorative border to the title page and numerous head- and tailpieces throughout. With "worthylie" on leaf C1 recto line 24. Moderated dampstain to first two gatherings a little light staining thereafter fraying to a few margins small worm-trail in lower margin final leaf soiled on verso. With a dedicatory epistle to “The Right worthy and noble Knight Sir Walter Raleigh” dated “from my house of Kilcolman the 27. Of December. 1591.” In addition to “Colin Clout” this volume also includes Spenser’s “Astrophel: A pastorall Elegie upon the death of the most Noble and valorous Knight Sir Phillip Sidney” dedicated to Sidney’s widow who had by then become the Countess of Essex; An untitled poem beginning “Ay me to whom shall I complaine…” often referred to as “The dolefull lay of Corinda”; “The mourning Muse of Thestylis” by Ludowick Bryskett; “A pastorall Aeglogue upon the death of Sir Phillip Sidney Knight” signed L.B. Ludowick Bryskett; “An Elegie or friends passion for his Astrophill” by Matthew Roydon; “An Epitaph upon the right honourable sir Phillip Sidney Knight: Lord governor of Flushing” by Walter Raleigh; “Another of the Same” almost certainly by Sir Edward Dyer. “Spenser’s “Colin Clout’s Come Home Again’ a pastoral poem in the tradition of Petrarch was inspired by the poet’s visit to England from 1590 to 1591 a journey undertaken at the urging of Walter Raleigh. Spenser wrote the poem dedicated to Raleigh upon his return to Kilcolman castle in Ireland –the ‘Home’ referred to in the poem’s title. “Spenser's adoption of an Anglo-Irish identity was publicly expressed in the title poem where the 'home' that Colin refers to rather bitterly in the poem is Ireland not England. At the same time the elegies on Sidney as the English nation's poet imply Spenser's claim to be his successor. “The poem has been called Spenser’s most biographical and indeed it includes not only the visit from Raleigh to Spenser’s home in Ireland in 1589 but also an account of Spenser’s sea voyage and his time in England during which he presented the first three books of his ‘Faerie Queen’ to Queen Elizabeth. “The poem fits neatly into a tradition of advice literature that exempts the monarch from the general failings of his or her courtiers and includes strong criticisms of the court as well as attacks on the vanity ignorance and greed of courtiers in general. It is possible that Colin Clout was intended as a criticism of Elizabeth's regime in the 1590s especially if we bear in mind Spenser's own lack of preferment in England and his posthumous criticisms of the queen in 'Two cantos of Mutabilitie'.”Hadfield Edmund Spenser's Irish Experience 1997 chap. 6 ESTC S111281; STC 23077; Langland to Wither 236; Pforzheimer 967; Johnson Edmund Spenser 16. Various printers (details below). 1591- hardcover books
1613rif. 4533London: By Humphrey Lownes for Mathew Lownes 1611- 1613. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION second issue see below for issue points. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 19th c. sprinkled calfskin gilt hinges discreetly repaired mild wear to corners and extremities. The boards are ruled in gold with shell ornaments at the corners and a gilt arabesque at the center. The text itself is in very nice condition lightly pressed with a few trivial blemishes and small rust holes to four leaves F3 X1-2 C6. The main title page is framed by a fine ornamental woodcut border McKerrow & Ferguson 212. Every canto of the “Faerie Queene” is introduced by an elaborate four-part woodcut frame and concludes with a historiated tail-piece. The “Shepheard's Calendar” is illustrated with twelve woodcut vignettes one for each month. The first issue of Spenser’s collected works appeared in 1611. In the earliest copies the publisher Mathew Lownes used the remaining sheets from his 1609 folio edition of the “Faerie Queene” together with a new title page and dedicatory leaf. Spenser’s other works were then printed in the same format to complete the collected edition. In 1612 the 1609 “Faerie Queene” sheets having run out the poem was re-set and printed anew with the t.p. to the second part dated 1612 and its colophon dated "16012" as in this copy. This issue also includes “Mother Hubberd’s Tale” which had been omitted in the first issue in order not to offend William Cecil whose father Lord Burghley Spenser had satirized in that poem. “Since Cecil died in 1612 the last objection to the republication of that work was removed and so copies of it were separately printed and inserted in those copies of the 1611 works that remained on hand.”Pforzheimer 972 The Omission of ‘Mother Hubberd’s Tale” from the 1611 Collected Works of Spenser: “Two years after Matthew Lownes had issued the first folio edition of the ‘Faerie Queen’ he decided to issue a collected edition of Spenser’s works. Having a number of unsold copies of the 1609 ‘Faerie Queen’ still on hand he determined to use those copies by including them in the collected edition in lieu of a 1611 reprint of the same. In order to effect this end he printed a general title and dedicatory leaf on a single sheet unsigned and so was enabled thus to make-up copies of a collected edition by cancelling the title of the 1609 edition and adding a 1611 edition of the remaining parts. “The 1591 edition of Spenser’s ‘Complaints’ having been officially suppressed on account of the attack on lord Burghley contained in the ‘Mother Hubberd’s Tale’ and in certain passages of the ‘Ruines of Time’ Lownes was not free to include the contents of that volume in this collected edition without obtaining official permission. By 1611 the matter had long blown over and Burghley the object of the satire was now dead but in deference to Sir Robert Cecil his son it was considered advisable to omit the offending satire and to revise the objectionable passages in the ‘Ruines of Time’. Therefore some copies e.g. the present of the 161 edition that were sold soon after publication did not contain the ‘Mother Hubberd’s Tale’ but since Cecil died in 1612 the last objection to the re-publication of that work was removed and so copies of it were separately printed and inserted in those copies that remained on hand.”Pforzheimer 972. By H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes, 1611- hardcover books
1897rif. 2945London: J.M. Dent 1897. Chivers bindings. Fine. STUNNING CHIVERS VELLUCENT BINDINGS. One of 100 large-paper copies illustrated by Louis Fairfax Muckley. The three thick quarto volumes are elegantly printed on handmade paper and illustrated throughout with images and designs by the British artist and illustrator Louis Fairfax Muckley. The illustrations are magnificent and feature the plates in two states red and black. The bindings by Chivers however are the star of the show and perfectly complement the text. For the front boards Muckley has created an intricate design featuring a knight and lady on galloping horses surrounded by decorative borders and gilt titling. Each spine depicts a lady emerging from a colorful background while each rear board has a stylized dragon seemingly jumping out from the binding. While the outlines of the designs are the same on each volume they are each painted with different colors creating a unique look and mood for each. On Cedric Chivers’s “vellucent” bindings: Chivers created a masterful binding technique in the late 19th century he called “vellucent” – a portmanteau combining “vellum” and “translucent”. The process was arduous but the results were stunning with artwork seeming to glow under a layer of thin protective vellum. His process began with a decorative design—in the case of these volumes artwork by Louis Fairfax Murray – created on paper or thin parchment. The artwork was then placed underneath a sheet of vellum that was extremely thin and specially treated to be translucent allowing the colors to almost shine like a stained glass window. The final step was particularly tricky – since vellum is not particularly flexible it required expert craftsmanship to lay it smoothly over the book's boards and spine without wrinkles or bubbles. The result is a binding that doubles as a work of fine art. The bindings are stamped “Bound by Cedric Chivers” in gilt on the rear dentelles and decoratively written on the rear endpaper of volume 1 likely by Chivers is the note: “THIS BOOK IS BOUND BY / CEDRIC CHIVERS BATH / 2 COPIES ONLY WITH THIS DESIGN / THIS IS NO 1”. Anecdotally however we are aware of three copies that have been bound with this design although without the written limitation. Provenance: There is a note in pencil in the first volume that these are from the Robert Hoe collection but we have not been able to confirm this. London: J.M. Dent 1897. Thick octavos 258 x 197 mm vellucent bindings by Chivers. Text nearly pristine. A touch of bowing to bindings. AN OUTSTANDING EXAMPLE OF CHIVERS BINDINGS IN UNUSUALLY FINE CONDITION. J.M. Dent unknown books
1902rif. 186419Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Co 1902. Hardcover. VG- light shelfwear to boards and block. Pages are clean and clear. Tan boards with orange lettering; 28 untrimmed pages; illustrations with protective tissue guard sheets. "Edition consists of four hundred and nineteen copies four hundred are numbered and for sale" This is number 138.- Colophon. Houghton Mifflin and Co hardcover books
1936rif. 175720Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press 1936. Hardcover. Very Good. Cambridge edition twelfth printing. 852pp. A few pages with minor ink writing and a few words circled owner name and date on front fly binding lightly worn very good lacking the dust jacket. Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press hardcover books
1957rif. 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
1897rif. 006745London: George Allen 1897. First edition. Three Quarters Crushed Morocco. Marbled pastedown. Near Fine. One of 1000 unnumbered sets printed. 4to. 27.5 by 22 cm. 19 parts bound in 6 volumes. Pictorial pink wrappers bound in. Plates headpieces and tailpieces by Crane. Gilt rose and leaf pattern in four spine compartments lettering in two. George Allen unknown books
1909rif. 1400327Oxford: Clarendon Press 1909. Hardcover. Octavo Two volumes. In Good minus condition with Fair dust jackets. Spines are tan with black print. Dust jackets have edgewear with short tears at spine ends and flap corners toning to spine peripheral toning. Price clipped. Boards in blue cloth; light wear to spine caps and corners. Text blocks have deckle edges; bookplate on front pastedown light amount of penciled marginal notation intermittent spine breaks. Illustrated: each volume includes facsimile of 1596 title page. CONTENTS: Vol. 1. Books I-III xxii 518 pages — Vol. 2. Books IV-VII vi 519 pages. Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column S. 1400327. FP New Rockville Stock. Clarendon Press hardcover books
1816rif. 56890BBWien, Anton Strauss, 1816. 12°. 3 n.n. Bl. 176 S. Bedruckte Originalbroschur.
1980rif. 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
1968rif. 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
1964rif. 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
1895rif. 16802London: J. M. Dent & Co 1895. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. "Bring with you all the Nymphes that you can heare Both of the rivers and the forrests greene." to this 130-year-old celebration of the lyrical verse of Edmund Spenser. "Epithalamion" "The Shepheardes Calender" "Happy Ye Leaves" hymns in honor of love and beauty and more of Spenser's lyrical poems are collected in this 1895 nearly pocket-size tome gilt-stamped in twining Art Nouveau vines of heart-shaped leaves and butterflies and illustrated in an engraved portrait of the poet a muse-adorned title page and decorative head- and tailpieces throughout. 6 1/8" X 4". xviii 245pp. Bound in sky blue cloth over boards with Art Nouveau vines stamped in gilt to upper board and spine lettered in kind. Mild wear to binding with bumping and rubbing to corners and to head and tail of spine. Blue silk ribbon placemarker detached and laid in. Previous owner's name dated March 1895 to front free endpaper. Binding is firm and sound. Pages show an occasional blemish else unmarked. Illustrated in a tissue-guarded engraved portrait of the poet decorative title page and Art Nouveau head- and tailpieces. J. M. Dent & Co hardcover books
1968rif. 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
1805Eight Volumes + Engraved Portrait Frontis in Volume One with offsetting onto foxed title page. Slight foxing in all volumes. All edges marbled. 215mm. Disbound. Leather boards present with engraved bookplates of Robert Moore decorated with a Black Moor on all paste downs. Bookplates of Clarence and Catherine Smith on first fly leaves. Spines very worn. A scarce set that may be worthwhile getting rebound. Edmund Spenser (ca. 1552-1599) was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. Please email us directly about postal charges on these sets. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! ENGSETS BX 6
1923rif. 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
1901rif. 122168New York: The Laurel Press 1901. Hardcover. VG- Light wear to extremities. Brown paper over boards; Off-white cloth at spine; 88 pp.; Illustrated initial letters at each page but otherwise no illustrations. A late-sixteenth-century sonnet cycle written by Edmunde Edmund Spenser about his courtship and marriage to Elizabeth Boyle; Hand-numbered no. 330 of 450 copies in this edition. The Laurel Press hardcover books
1939rif. 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
1839rif. 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
rif. 51543Unbound. Near Fine. One page Autograph Letter Signed. Near fine folded as mailed with some light soiling. unknown books
rif. MA04A-04695Garland Publishing. Collectible - Very Good. New York and London: Garland Publishing 1997. 2 volumes. Sm 4to. xviii1195pp. Illus. Very Good book. Boards a bit rubbed. physical anthropology encyclopedias ISBN 0815304900 Inquire if you need further information. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES. Garland Publishing hardcover
1901rif. 1402414Published by Robert Culley 1901. 1st edition. Hardback. Very Good. Very good condition with no wrapper. The story of three children who runaway from home to try and find a better life. Blue pictorial cloth. Gilt titles to front and gilt title block to spine. B/w frontis and text illustrations. All edges gilt. 128 pages with 16 page illustrated book catalogue to rear. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Presentation plate to front pastedown. A few marks otherwise contents generally clean. Published by Robert Culley hardcover
rif. 1017507252.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
