VERY RARE - SCARCE EARLY EDITION
VERY RARE -
SCARCE FIRST EDITION - FIRST ISSUE
RARE LIMITED EDITION of an IMPORTANT & UNCOMMON
EDITION
FIVE VOLUMES in ORIGINAL FINE
LEATHER BINDINGS
"INCOMPARABLY THE GREATEST MASTER IN OUR LANGUAGE"
THE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER
Edited
by
J. PAYNE COLLIER, F.S.A., 1789-1883.
LONDON:
Published by The Chiswick Press for Bickers and Son... 1873 [published
date: 1873]. Rare First Bickers
Edition in five volumes. 8vo. 9.5" x 6.5" Inches (LxB), will take 9"
inches of shelf space. Pp. clxxviii, 318; vi, 502, [1, Colophon]; vi,
477, [1, Colophon]; vi, 473, [1, Colophon]; vi, 511, [1, Colophon] pages
complete with engraved frontispiece portrait plate in volume one,
title-pages printed in red and black, top-edges gilt.
Fine original
contemporary publisher's 3/4 dark green crushed morocco fine leather
bindings, elaborately gilt decorated spines with 5 raised bands & gilt
lettering in compartments, top-edges gilt.
A Splendid Chiswick Press
edition of Spenser�s works, with biography by J. Payne Collier, very
handsomely bound in fine leather 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.
Provenance: Bookplates of George
Washington Brackenridge, San Antonio, Texas. .
v. 1. Pp. clxxviii,
318, [1, Colophon] pages Life of Spenser. The Shepheards
calendar. The Faerie queene.
v. 2-3. Pp.
vi, 502, [1, Colophon]; vi, 477, [1, Colophon]; pages The
Faerie queene (continued).
v. 4. Pp. vi,
473, [1, Colophon] pages. The Faerie queene (concluded). Two
cantos of Mutabilitie. Complaints.
v. 5.
Pp. vi, 511, [1, Colophon] pages. Complaints (concluded). Colin
Clouts come home againe. Foure hymnes. Daphnaida. Prothalamion. Sonnets.
Britain's Ida. A view of the state of Ireland. Glossary.
Listed for $1500/- & $1250/-
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Extremely rare. Absolutely spectacular.
A classic work, complete as
issued.
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lettering in compartments, top-edges gilt,
some wear tear, scuffing, minor chipping to covers, spine, ends &
corners, with minor age toning, soiling to pages are clean & bright, the bindings
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Note: Outer edges of many pages are uncut, indicating an unread-unused set.
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