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1732Best.-Nr. 012598London: Printed by Will. Bowyer; John Ball 1732. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. xviii 254 pages of text including an index. Full leather binding; rebacked. Original boards are somewhat rubbed and worn but remain attractive. Illustrated by a frontisportrait of Spenser and twelve engraved plates by Fourdrinier. The plate for February is repeated and is in the place of January which is not present. The text is in English faced by Latin by Theodoro Bathurst. Previous owner's bookplate and notations on endpapers Sherlock Willis with dates 1746 and 1756. Also Sherlock V. Willis 1877. Willis was Rector of Wormley. The 18th Century engraved bookplate with coat of arms states "The Ungodly Borroweth & Payeth Not Again.". Printed by Will. Bowyer; John Ball Hardcover
1889Best.-Nr. 11272Manchester: The Spenser Society. Good with no dust jacket. 1889. Limited Edition. Disbound. Binding copy. No covers or spine but the contents are in very good to fine condition. The book is not in pieces; the sewing is intact. ; While the cover says this was published in 1889 by the Spenser Society in Manchester the title page indicates it was published in London by John c. Nimmo in 1890. #299 of an edition of 520.; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall . The Spenser Society unknown
2010Best.-Nr. DADAX1167261445Kessinger Publishing 2010-09-10. hardcover. New. 6.00x0.50x9.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Kessinger Publishing hardcover
Best.-Nr. 1164231499.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1985Best.-Nr. BN424705Anthony d'Offay 1985. 1985. The Shepheardes Calender by Edmund Spenser. Abweichender Deckeltitel: Calendar 1986. The Shepheardes Calender by Edmund Spenser. Abweichender Deckeltitel: Calendar 1986. Twombly Cy - Spenser Edmund Anthony d'Offay unknown
1898Best.-Nr. 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
1930Best.-Nr. 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
1956Best.-Nr. 172340London/New York: J.M. Dent & Sons/E.P. Dutton 1956. Hardcover. Fine/Good. Reprint. Fine in a good dust jacket with deep tears to the corners. Everyman's Library No. 879. J.M. Dent & Sons/E.P. Dutton hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 0140434453.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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Best.-Nr. 0656851449.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 1025174011.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 1576571025.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1957Best.-Nr. 120878Edinburgh London : William Blackwood & Sons Ltd. 1957. First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in a near fine very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight bright clean and sharp-cornered. ; 231 pages; Description: ix 231 p. : illus. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Sudan --Politics and government. Edinburgh, London : William Blackwood & Sons Ltd. hardcover
1952Best.-Nr. 122957Edinburgh W. Blackwood 1952. First Edition. Hardback. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn with some loss and dust-toned dw now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. ; 283 pages; Description: xi 283 p. Illus. ; map on endpapers. 22 cm. Bibliography: p. 277. Subjects: Sudan --History. Out of print. Edinburgh, W. Blackwood hardcover
1798Best.-Nr. 142573London: Printed and Published for the Author by George Cawthorn British Library No. 132 Strand 1798. 40pp. Narrow octavo 140 mm x 230 mm. Paper wrappers with black text and a small engraving to the front. String-tied. Some soiling along the edges of the wrappers as well as edgewear and a few closed tears that have been professionally repaired. A very good copy of an incredibly scarce item. Written by Edmund Spenser "the Younger"--not the Spenser who wrote the great allegorical epic poem "The Faerie Queen" in 1590. This play is based off of the seventeenth issue of the serial The Spectator; this serial devoted numerous issues to the topic of so-called "Ugly Clubs" a social club who would apparently only admit members with unappealing facial features. This play is very scarce with no other copies listed for sale at the time this one was catalogued nor any relevant auction records. Printed and Published for the Author by George Cawthorn, British Library, No. 132, Strand unknown
1923Best.-Nr. 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
1923Best.-Nr. 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
1862Best.-Nr. ST19567-034London: Bell and Daldy 1862. 229 x 152 mm. 9 x 6". Five volumes. Edited by John Payne Collier. VERY ATTRACTIVE DEEP BLUE PEBBLE-GRAIN MOROCCO HANDSOMELY GILT covers with frames of one dogtooth and three plain rules raised bands spines in antique-style compartments with delicate scrolling cornerpieces and intricate central fleuron surrounded by small tools densely gilt floral turn-ins marbled endpapers all edges gilt. With frontispiece portrait of Spenser in volume I. Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Herbert Lionel Bashford M. A. Dibon Lodge Godalming. See: Day "History of English Literature to 1660" pp. 187-89. Spines just a shade darker than covers a couple covers with a slightly blotchy appearance due to leather preservative but quite an attractive set in generally fine condition the text fresh and bright and the leather lustrous. The first modern English poet to achieve major stature Spenser ca. 1552-99 in Day's words demonstrated "with his fluency in many meters and stanzaic forms . . . that English was at least the equal to any other language as a vehicle of great poetry." While his poems particularly "The Faerie Queene" look backward as the culmination of the allegorical verse tradition of the Pearl Poet Langland and Chaucer he has influenced with "his fertile imagination and especially his sensuous imagery and melodic language" nearly every important English poet who followed him. Day DNB praises Collier's "Spenser" first published in 1862 as "an excellent edition with the completest life of the poet that had as yet appeared." Despite his great knowledge and love of early English authors Collier 1789-1883 suffered a certain diminished respect because of his propensity for textual fabrication. This was true particularly in the case of the notorious "Perkins folio" supposedly containing an early copy of Shakespeare's works with superior variant readings which turned out to be forged. Britannica comments that these "fabrications . . . may charitably . . . be attributed to literary monomania but . . . it is difficult to speak with patience of them so completely did they for a long time bewilder the chronology of Shakespeare's writings." Apart from its important content this set is quite lovely on the shelf. The bindings are unsigned but they have the feel and appearance of work done by James Hayday 1796-1872 one of the most prominent and productive English binders of the 19th century. The present set is typical of Hayday's decorative work for a large market using high quality leather and being liberal with gilt embellishment. Bell and Daldy unknown
1862Best.-Nr. ST19567-034London: Bell and Daldy 1862. 229 x 152 mm. 9 x 6". Five volumes. Edited by John Payne Collier. VERY ATTRACTIVE DEEP BLUE PEBBLE-GRAIN MOROCCO HANDSOMELY GILT covers with frames of one dogtooth and three plain rules raised bands spines in antique-style compartments with delicate scrolling cornerpieces and intricate central fleuron surrounded by small tools densely gilt floral turn-ins marbled endpapers all edges gilt. With frontispiece portrait of Spenser in volume I. Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Herbert Lionel Bashford M. A. Dibon Lodge Godalming. See: Day "History of English Literature to 1660" pp. 187-89. Spines just a shade darker than covers a couple covers with a slightly blotchy appearance due to leather preservative but quite an attractive set in generally fine condition the text fresh and bright and the leather lustrous. The first modern English poet to achieve major stature Spenser ca. 1552-99 in Day's words demonstrated "with his fluency in many meters and stanzaic forms . . . that English was at least the equal to any other language as a vehicle of great poetry." While his poems particularly "The Faerie Queene" look backward as the culmination of the allegorical verse tradition of the Pearl Poet Langland and Chaucer he has influenced with "his fertile imagination and especially his sensuous imagery and melodic language" nearly every important English poet who followed him. Day DNB praises Collier's "Spenser" first published in 1862 as "an excellent edition with the completest life of the poet that had as yet appeared." Despite his great knowledge and love of early English authors Collier 1789-1883 suffered a certain diminished respect because of his propensity for textual fabrication. This was true particularly in the case of the notorious "Perkins folio" supposedly containing an early copy of Shakespeare's works with superior variant readings which turned out to be forged. Britannica comments that these "fabrications . . . may charitably . . . be attributed to literary monomania but . . . it is difficult to speak with patience of them so completely did they for a long time bewilder the chronology of Shakespeare's writings." Apart from its important content this set is quite lovely on the shelf. The bindings are unsigned but they have the feel and appearance of work done by James Hayday 1796-1872 one of the most prominent and productive English binders of the 19th century. The present set is typical of Hayday's decorative work for a large market using high quality leather and being liberal with gilt embellishment. Bell and Daldy unknown books
1930Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 654378805Johns Hopkins University Press . Papeback. New. pp. 288 Johns Hopkins University Press unknown
1943Best.-Nr. 1019N11Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press 1943-1961. Cloth. Very Good. 10.5" by 7.5". None. Two attractive volumes of the scarce variorum edition of pioneering Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser including The Shepheardes Calendar. Volumes I and II of the Minor Poems within the Variorum edition of The Works of Edmund Spenser edited by scholars Edmund Greenlaw Charles Grosvenor Osgood Frederick Morgan Padelford and Ray Heffner published between 1943-1961. In the publisher's original blue cloth. A pioneering poet Spenser rapidly expanded English literary culture with his ambition and penchant for classicism and was the namesake of both the Spenserian stanza and sonnet. This charming variorum edition offers the different readings of each text as well as literary commentary. - Volume I: Contains The Shepheardes Calendar his first major work and Astrophel among others 1943 first printing. - Volume II: Contains A Theatre for Worldlings and Complaints among others 1961 third printing. In the publisher's original blue cloth. Externally the odd small mark and fading patch to boards. Bumping to the heads and tails of the spines and to the extremities with minor rubbing to joints. Fading to II spine with library sticker. End papers are generally bright and clean with faint offsetting to end paper hinges of I a little heavier to front free end paper. Library bookplate to II front pastedown. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good The John Hopkins Press hardcover