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Title

The Poetical Works

of Edmund Spenser

in Three Volumes

Volume I – Spenser’s Minor Poems

Edited by Ernest de Selincourt

Volume II – Spenser’s Faerie Queen Books I-III

Edited by J.C. Smith

Volume II – Spenser’s Faerie Queen Books IV-VII

Edited by J.C. Smith

[Bumpus Half Leather Binding – Later Edition]

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Author

Edmund SPENSER

E. de Selincourt

 J.C. Smith

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Year of Publication

1909-10

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Publisher

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press.

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For full description see below - after all photographs

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Description:

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1909 (Vols II and III) and 1910 (Vol I), Later Edition.

Half brown leather morocco binding by Bumpus with marbled paper covered boards, gently faded to the spine, gilt titles and decoration to the compartments. Page top edges gilt, others tanned, internally clean, facsimile copies of Spenser’s various works.

Binder’s stamp in gilt to the leather turn-in on the paste down.

Pagination: Vol I – xxxi, [i], 528pp, (Minor Poems); Vol II – xxii, [ii], 518pp, (Faerie Queene Vol I: Books I-III); Vol III – vi, 519pp, (Faerie Queene Vol II: Books IV-VII).

Provenance: ‘bookplate’ to the front of Vol I with ‘Douglas, Eve’ inscribed above ‘May RAY’.

Approximately 9 inches tall (23cm).

 

Condition Report

Externally

• Spine – very good condition – gently faded, gilt titles, gently marked and worn.
• Joints – very good condition – gently worn and rubbed.
• Corners – very good condition – worn.
• Boards – very good condition – minor marks, gilt double filet to the leather.
• Page edges – very good condition – top edges gilt, others tanned.
• See above and photos.

Internally

• Hinges – very good condition.
• Paste downs – very good condition – marbled, leather turn-ins, binder’s stamp in gilt to front, paper ‘bookplate’ to Vol I.
• End papers – very good condition – marbled.
• Title – very good condition – tanned.
• Pages – very good condition – tanned.
• Binding – very good condition – attractive.
• See above and photos.

Publisher: see above.
Publication Date: 1909-10
Binding: Hardback

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