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1895Best.-Nr. 56144NY: Dodd Mead & Co. Very Good. 1895. Hardcover. Original green cloth decorated in gilt. . Ex-University library with ink stamps and removed bookplates. Limited to 450 copies. Slight rubbing/soil to cloth. Title page in red and black. B/w illustrations throughout. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Dodd, Mead & Co hardcover
1895Best.-Nr. 56883NY: Dodd Mead & Co. Very Good. 1895. Hardcover. Original green cloth decorated in gilt. Limited to 450 copies. Bookplate and PO inscriptiion. Slight rubbing/soil to cloth mild corner wear. Title page in red and black. B/w illustrations throughout. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Dodd, Mead & Co hardcover
1903Best.-Nr. 515London: John & E. Bumpus LTD 1903. Hardback. Very Good. Three-quarter bound leather and marbled paper boards. Boards and extremities rubbed. Stamp and check mark on endpapers. John & E. Bumpus, LTD unknown
1895Best.-Nr. 11858New York: Dodd Mead & Co. . 1895. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. This edition limited to 25 copies; this copy unnumbered with "Artist's copy" written in red above his signature on limitation page. Moderately soiled gilt dec faux vellum mild bumping and rubbing small split upper spine end small spatter of black paint lower rear corner. Front hinge cracked but holding o/w solid binding. Pages browned. Three illustrations each with a few small brown soil spots and abrasions as if from a past failed attempt at cleaning . No ex-lib marks stamps or stickers.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Unpaginated pages; Signed by Illustrator . Dodd, Mead & Co. hardcover
1895Best.-Nr. 66978NY 1895. First edition with the Edwards illustrations 1/450 unnumbered copies. 8vo. 56 pp. Original cloth-backed tan boards rubbed and scraped spine ends somewhat frayed floral endpapers gilt spine title. Bookplate of Fitzroy Carrington and his inscription on front pastedown but a good copy only. unknown
1901Best.-Nr. 10880New York: Samuel Buckley & Co 1901. Limited Edition. Vellum binding. Fine. Ocravo 22pp. A beautiful copy printed on vellum and bound in full limp vellum hand illuminated in shell gold and various paints. Beautifully executed. 1/150 numbered copies this is #148. Engraved bookplate. Fine example. Samuel Buckley & Co unknown
1926Best.-Nr. 008760New York: F. S. Crofts 1926. Inscribed: "John W. O'Neill/May 3 1941/from Mrs. Van Winkle." Very slight wear to cover corners. Original Cloth-backed Boards. Very Good. F. S. Crofts Hardcover
1895Best.-Nr. DEMO013574INew York: Dodd Mead 1895. First edition thus. Hardcover. fine. George Wharton Edwards. Octavo full vellum extra gilt top cover marbled endpapers. Stopford Brooke called this "the most glorious love-song in the English language". One of only 450 copies. Illustrated in an art nouveau style. Parsons declared Spenser to be the third name in English literature. Dodd, Mead hardcover
1903Best.-Nr. ST20957London: John & E. Bumpus 1903. 211 x 140 mm. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2". 86 pp. LOVELY GREEN MOROCCO GILT AND INLAID FOR J. & E. BUMPUS stamped in gilt on rear turn-in LIKELY BY RIVIERE & SON upper cover with gilt fillet frame central panel with densely blind-stamped leafy vines on a gilt pointillé background accented with onlaid red morocco dots large oval at center and four smaller ovals all framed by gilt beads the central oval adorned with four gilt and onlaid red and white morocco Tudor roses 10 more such roses at corners and along the sides of outer frame lower cover with gilt fillet frame raised bands spine compartments with blind-stamped leafy sprig on pointillé ground with onlaid black ivory and red morocco dots gilt lettering turn-ins with gilt border gilt trio of leaves at corners all edges gilt. With engraved frontispiece portrait title page vignette two headpieces and two tailpieces. Upper cover and spine evenly faded to olive green likely from being displayed just a hint of bowing to boards but A VERY FINE COPY the text entirely clean fresh and bright and the binding unworn. This lovely printing of Spenserian poetry comes in an unusual and skillfully executed binding likely by Riviere & Son which was producing some of its very best work at the time of publication. The poems here were inspired by Spenser's courtship of and 1594 marriage to his second wife Elizabeth Boyle. Day calls "Amoretti" "a unique sonnet sequence in Renaissance England" and he is unreserved in his praise for "Epithalamion" calling it "the most beautiful nuptial poem in English and perhaps in any language." Spenser 1552 - 99 was the first modern English poet to achieve major stature and Day points out that those "influenced by Spenser are virtually a roster of the great English poets since his time" among them Milton Wordsworth Keats Rossetti and Tennyson. Bumpus bindings were done for the bookselling firm of John and Edward Bumpus founded in 1780. The firm long enjoyed a reputation as purveyors of fine and beautiful bindings without ever operating a bindery. Instead they outsourced the work to the best binders of the day including Riviere and Morrell the former being a likely choice here. The combination of swirling blind-stamped vines a densely stippled background and onlaid blossoms demonstrates creativity in design proficiency in a range of finishing techniques and meticulous execution. The five blank ovals on the upper cover bring to mind the layout of Cosway bindings a specialty of the Riviere firm in which those ovals would be filled with miniature paintings on ivory under glass. Cosway bindings could sometimes be ornate to the point of being overwhelming so the blank ovals here are a welcome moment of restraint amid the animation of the cover design. Apparently an earlier owner enjoyed displaying this binding--as who would not--and the leather has mellowed to an olive green--which may actually be a more pleasing foundation for the decoration than the original brighter green. Certainly the book saw no other use as the contents are as fresh as the day the volume left the printer. John & E. Bumpus unknown books
1895Best.-Nr. 66978NY 1895. First edition with the Edwards illustrations 1/450 unnumbered copies. 8vo. 56 pp. Original cloth-backed tan boards rubbed and scraped spine ends somewhat frayed floral endpapers gilt spine title. Bookplate of Fitzroy Carrington and his inscription on front pastedown but a good copy only. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 1018923403.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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Best.-Nr. Discovery-9781806015733BRILLIANCE 2027. Hardcover. New. BRILLIANCE hardcover
Best.-Nr. Discovery-9781806015733BRILLIANCE 2027. Hardcover. New. BRILLIANCE hardcover
Best.-Nr. 0331649918.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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1962Best.-Nr. 30350HBDJ 2 VOLS VOL 1 1962 1ST Edition THUS Early ISSUE Reprint LARGER FORMAT TINY STICKER FRONT DJ Some underlining & margin notes 500 pgs List LITE EXTREMITIES CHIPS WEAR VG-/VG AS-IS VOL 2 1960 1ST Edition THUS Early ISSUE ReprintNO UNDERLINING LARGER FORMAT TINY EXTREMITIES CHIPS DJ LITE WEAR Back DJ mentions few of 500 Authors thru Zola 454 pgs ADS GLOSSARY Everyman’s Library London: dutton J.M. Dent & Sons,Spine DJ LONDON hardcover
1978Best.-Nr. 220288New York: Oxford University Press 1978. First Edition; Sixth Printing. Hardcover. Good in a Good dust jacket. Ex-library.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1070 pages. Oxford University Press hardcover
1897Best.-Nr. 1307501897. First Edition. CRANE Walter illustrator SPENSER Edmund. Spenser's Faerie Queene. London: George Allen Chiswick Press 1897. Six volumes. Quarto original white buckram gilt and red cover illustrations top edges gilt uncut. $4000.Limited first book-form edition of Walter Crane's ""most ambitious project of book illustration"" Lacy 103 one of 1000 large-paper copies with 88 splendid full-page pen-and-ink line-cuts two double-page 135 illustrative head- and tailpieces by Crane and six facsimile title pages from earlier editions.""The noblest allegorical poem in our languageÑindeed the noblest allegorical poem in the world"" James Montgomery. Originally published in the late 16th century the first three books in 1590 and the next three in 1596 with the ""Mutabilitie Cantos"" added in 1609 Spenser's ambitious Arthurian allegory was the first epic that ""both incorporated countless mythological and folkloric traditions and exemplified the careful design and poetic quality of written literature"" Clute & Grant 890. Finely printed on handmade paper the Chiswick Press edition with notes and commentary by Thomas Wise was originally issued in 19 parts 1894-96 and stands at the pinnacle of famous illustrator Walter Crane's career. All front wrappers and rear wrappers bound in. Mass 47. Bookplates. Small bookseller ticket.Interiors fine and fresh light soiling to publisher's cloth. A lavishly illustrated and handsomely printed edition in near-fine condition. hardcover
1897Best.-Nr. 1243241897. First Edition. CRANE Walter illustrator SPENSER Edmund. Spenser's Faerie Queene. London: George Allen Chiswick Press 1897. Six volumes. Quarto contemporary three-quarter vellum gilt brown morocco spine labels marbled endpapers top edges gilt uncut; original wrappers bound in at rear of each volume. $5200.Limited first book-form edition of Walter Crane's ""most ambitious project of book illustration"" Lacy 103 one of 1000 large-paper copies with 88 splendid full-page pen-and-ink line-cuts two double-page 135 illustrative head- and tailpieces by Crane and six facsimile title pages from earlier editions. Handsomely bound by J. Adams of Manchester.""The noblest allegorical poem in our languageÑindeed the noblest allegorical poem in the world"" James Montgomery. Originally published in the late 16th century the first three books in 1590 and the next three in 1596 with the ""Mutabilitie Cantos"" added in 1609 Spenser's ambitious Arthurian allegory was the first epic that ""both incorporated countless mythological and folkloric traditions and exemplified the careful design and poetic quality of written literature"" Clute & Grant 890. Finely printed on handmade paper the Chiswick Press edition with notes and commentary by Thomas Wise was originally issued in 19 parts 1894-96 and stands at the pinnacle of famous illustrator Walter Crane's career. All front wrappers and rear wrappers bound in. Mass 47. A splendid set of this delightful illustrated edition in fine condition. hardcover
2026Best.-Nr. LRB906165Paris: Editions Recreasoft 2026 Language: English. Approximately 554 pages. English : Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1590-1596. Étude et édition de référence consacrées à The Faerie Queene d'Edmund Spenser poème allégorique majeur de la littérature anglaise de la Renaissance. Cette publication intéressera les lecteurs et chercheurs travaillant sur le texte spensérien la poésie épique l'allégorie morale et religieuse ainsi que sur l'histoire littéraire élisabéthaine. Study and reference edition devoted to The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser a major allegorical poem of the English Renaissance. This publication will appeal to readers and scholars interested in Spenserian texts epic poetry moral and religious allegory and Elizabethan literary history. Book images are non-contractual. Editions Recreasoft. Softcover. New. Editions Recreasoft paperback
2026Best.-Nr. LRB6012047Paris: Editions Recreasoft 2026 Language: English. Approximately 800 pages. English : Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1758. A scholarly edition of Edmund Spenser's great allegorical epic enriched with a glossary and with explanatory and critical notes by John Upton. The Faerie Queene remains one of the central monuments of English Renaissance poetry combining courtly allegory chivalric romance and moral reflection in a text of enduring literary and historical importance. Book images are non-contractual. Editions Recreasoft. Softcover. New. Editions Recreasoft paperback
2026Best.-Nr. LRB45017168Paris: Editions Recreasoft 2026 Language: English. Approximately 698 pages. Volume 2 of a multi-volume work. English: Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1758. Text in English. This edition of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene includes a glossary and extensive explanatory notes by John Upton. A foundational work of English Renaissance literature this epic poem explores themes of chivalry virtue and allegory reflecting the political and cultural landscape of Elizabethan England. Upton's annotations provide valuable historical and literary context making this edition particularly useful for scholars and enthusiasts of early modern literature. Book images are non-contractual. Editions Recreasoft. Softcover. New. Editions Recreasoft paperback
