The Faerie Queene: Disposed into XII. Bookes, Fashioning twelve Morall Vertues.
by Edmund Spenser
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
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About This Item
First folio edition. Full ruled calf rebacked in supple calf with new endpapers. First stanza of each canto printed inside four-component woodcut. Numerous woodcut headpieces, tailpieces, and initial letters.
Loss to title page, not affecting text or image. Archival tape repair at title page gutter and last page. Undecipherable scribbling to title page, as well as to pages 1, 2, 252 & 253, with ink stain to the latter (see image). Some worming at upper margins; minimal impact to text at 12 pages between A-D (see image). Includes pagination error at page 8 (numbered 10). Inked name of Ralph Markland (British publisher known for the 1643 publication of the portrait of Prince Rupert) and " Garrett fitz Gerald his booke / 1666" to page 1. A handsome copy.
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- Bookseller
- William Chrisant & Sons' Florida Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, FABA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8845
- Title
- The Faerie Queene
- Author
- Edmund Spenser
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1609
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1609
- Pages
- [2], 363, [1]
- Size
- 7 5/8" x 10 5/8"; 18/5 cm x 26.5
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 16th Century, 17th Century, Elizabethan
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Poetry; European Literature;
Terms of Sale
William Chrisant & Sons' Florida Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, FABA
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About the Seller
William Chrisant & Sons' Florida Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, FABA
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- Folio
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- Gutter
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- Calf
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- Title Page
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- Rebacked
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- New
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