Search Results: Books by spenser edmund walter

McClelland & Stewart, 1954. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. The dust jacket is missing. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.

New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1969. Leather Bound. Good Condition. Attractively bound in green leather with gilt titles and decoration. Slanted spine. All pages unmarked and uncreased. Overall, a good used copy. 437 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Prefaces; Prologues and epilogues; Add. Inventory No: 231126CMQ001072. .

London: Frederick Etchells and Hugh Macdonald, 1925. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. Pp. ix, 256. Notes, index of first lines. Introduction by Hugh Macdonald. Half cloth binding in brown with stamped gilt lettering on the spine. Top edge dyed brown, others untrimmed. Of an edition limited to 900, this copy is numbered 253. Leaves unopened except title. Endpapers age toned, else near fine. A page for page reprint of the first Flasket quarto volume of 1600, with editorial notes recording differences where poems were published elsewhere contemporaneously. Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press on Kentish All-Rag for the Haslewood Books.

First 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."

London and New York:: Harper & Brothers,, 1898.. First edition.. publisher's olive cloth illustrated in colors by Walter Crane on the spine and both covers; top edge stained green.. The extremities of the backstrip are a little creased with slight rubbing; an attractive copy.. 8vo,. Newly Adorned with Twelve Pictures and other Devices by Walter Crane..

Easton Press, 2008. Hardcover. Fine/No jacket. Bound in red leather. Three volumes. Illustrated by Walter Crane.

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 2008. Full Leather. Fine. Three volume set. 28.5 x 22 cm. Quarto. Bound into full red leather with gilt design, lettering, and foredges. 3 raised bands to spine. The interior is a facsimile of the George Allen 1897 edition, edited by Thomas J. Wise and illustrated by Walter Crane. Moire endpapers and ribbon.

London: George Allen, Ruskin House, 1897. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, 6 uniform volumes, gte, sides uncut. All parts, including pictorial, pink covers, bound in decorative binding of cream cloth with pictorial inset stamped in gold and titles in red to each volume. Lacking the publisher's slipcase. Spines were tanned, internals about as nice as we would expect to find, with all covers extant and bound-in.

London: George Allen, 1897. Limited edition. 3/4 Leather. Very Good. 6 volume set. 28.5 x 22 cm. Quarto. lxxxvii 1546 pp Bound into 3/4 brown leather over green marble boards and endpapers. 5 raised bands to spines. Illustrated with oveer 200 woodcut illustrations as well as head and tail pieces and decorated initials by Walter Crane. Limited to 1000 copies printed on handmade paper. TEG. Sun toning to spines. A bit of rubbing to edges. Previous owner's bookplate (Deatherage) on front fixed endpaper of each volume. Some scuffing to the spines. Crane's best work.

London: George Allen, 1897. Rear cover of the final volume detached, hinges tender; some surface scratches; spines faded a shade. A very handsome set. Six volumes. 4tos; lxxxvii, 1-248 [18], viii, 251-527 [13], viii, 529-805 [13], viii, 807-1044 [12], viii, 1045-1274 [16], viii, 1277-1546 [24]; full polished tree calf gilt with exquisitely tooled spines with red and tan leather labels, marbled endpapers; t.e.g. One of 1000 unnumbered copies on handmade paper printed by Charles Whittingham & Co. at the Chiswick Press, this copy has been beautifully bound in the Riviere style by H.S. Nichols. One of the high-water marks of Art & Crafts book design, this was Walter Crane's last major commission and one of his most fully executed and highly prized publications, featuring 88 full-page illustrations, along with head and tailpieces, devices, and initials throughout. The set was issued in parts between 1894 and 1897 and the original title pages and publisher's devices are bound in at the rear of each volume… Read More

London: George Allen, 1897 (parts 1894-1897). First edition. Three Quarters Crushed Morocco. Marbled pastedown. . Near Fine. One of 1,000 unnumbered sets printed. 4to. 27.5 by 22 cm. 19 parts bound in 6 volumes. Pictorial pink wrappers bound in. Plates, headpieces and tailpieces by Crane. Gilt rose and leaf pattern in four spine compartments, lettering in two.

1897. 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 language—indeed 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… Read More

London: George Allen,, 1894-1897. In the original wrappers First edition, limited to 1,000 copies on handmade paper (with a further 27 on japon), a remarkably fresh set in the original unrestored wrappers of this grand production, one of Crane's most distinguished works of illustration. Crane's designs encompass both an Art Nouveau and an Arts & Crafts aesthetic - he had, of course, worked with Morris at the Kelmscott Press - and this edition of Spenser's epic was issued at the height of his fame: he had an exhibition of his work touring Europe "and he was delighted to find that German collectors and museums bought his allegorical paintings, which chimed with German symbolist work" (ODNB). It was one of his last substantial commissions. The printing was executed for the publisher by the distinguished Chiswick Press. The editor of the text was the then-esteemed collector and bibliographer Thomas James Wise, later unveiled as a book forger. 19 parts, quarto. Original pink wrappers with design by Crane.… Read More

London: George Allen,, 1894-97. In the original parts First Crane edition, deluxe issue, number 17 of 28 copies printed on japon, of which 25 only were for sale. This is one of the finest editions of Spenser's masterpiece and "Crane's most important work in terms of quantity... a major achievement among Crane's later black and white work" (Spencer, p. 135). This was one of Crane's last commissions, appearing towards the end of his career when his fame as a book illustrator was well established. In his treatise Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New (1896), he explained the approach he adopted to illustrate The Faerie Queene: "The full page designs are all treated as panels of figure design, or pictures and are enclosed in fanciful borders, in which subsidiary incidents of characters of the poem are introduced or suggested, somewhat on the plan of mediaeval tapestries" (p. 222); he also pointed out that the designs expressed "my own feeling - and designing must always finally be a… Read More