The Works of That Famous English Poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser. Viz. The Faery Queen, The Shepherds Calendar, The History of Ireland, &c. Whereunto is Added, an Account of His Life; With Other New Additions Never Before in Print. [FINE BINDING]

SPENSER, EDMUND

Edité par London: Henry Hills for Jonathan Edwin, at the Three Roses in Ludgate-Street, 1679

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THIRD FOLIO EDITION OF SPENSER'S COLLECTED WORKS. Leather-bound; hardcover; folio (34.5 x 21 x 5cm); pp. [12], 339, [1], 16, [8], 1-2, 10-11, 9-258, [2], 369-391, [1]. Text and register continuous despite numerous mispaginations throughout. English text (with some Latin at pages 369-391) in single and double column. Stunningly bound in 19th century full dark burgundy hard-grain morocco with elaborate, richly decorative gilt ruled and tooled covers. Spine with five raised bands, elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt ruled board edges, gilt decorated turn-ins, marbled end-papers, all edges gilt. Complete with full-page frontispiece engraving of Spenser's tomb signed 'R White sculp' and title-page printed in red and black, rear glossary/alphabetical index. Condition: NEAR FINE. Collated complete. Binding tight and secure, the covers beautifully preserved. Interior with a couple of trivial fox spots and a dozen leaves with expert repairs to small worm tracts in the margins, otherwise a fine example in a truly stunning binding. Notes: "Spenser's influence on English poetic literature cannot be readily over-estimated… Charles Lamb bestowed on Spenser his just title when he described him as 'the poet's poet' (DNB). Believed to have been edited in part by John Dryden, this third folio edition of Spenser's works includes The Shepherds' Calendar, "a turning point for Elizabethan poetry" (Baugh, 484), and The Fairy Queen, Spenser's epic, romantic allegory. Preceded by folio editions of 1611 and 1617-18. There are gaps in pagination (i.e. between pages 258-369 [4K1-5A1]), as issued, but the text is complete. Mother Hubberd's Tale, The Shepherd's Calendar, Amoretti and Epithalamion, The Tears of the Muses, et al, each have separate title-pages, dated 1678. Carpenter, 111-12. Wing S4965. Lowndes, 2477. Pforzheimer 980. ESTC R7177.

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• Titre: The Works of That Famous English Poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser. Viz. The Faery Queen, The Shepherds Calendar, The History of Ireland, &c. Whereunto is Added, an Account of His Life; With Other New Additions Never Before in Print. [FINE BINDING]
• Éditeur: London: Henry Hills for Jonathan Edwin, at the Three Roses in Ludgate-Street
• Date de parution: 1679
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 3rd Edition
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • 17th Century
  • Fine Bindings
  • Classic Literature