Spenser (Edmund) The Faerie Queen: The Shepheards Calendar: Together with the Other Works of England's Arch-Poet, first collection edition, second issue, with 2H6 and F4 blanks, title within elaborate allegorical woodcut border, divisional titles, many with woodcut ornaments or devices, woodcut initials, numerous illustrative woodcut head- and tail-pieces, title and A1 outer margins neatly repaired and restored, title a little creased with portion torn away at head, title and first few ff. spotted, several ff. with neat repairs and restorations to margins, X6 repaired affecting tail-piece with part supplied by hand, very occasional light browning, the odd spot or small rust hole, 20th century brown morocco by Zaehnsdorf, light rubbing to joints, g.e., [STC 23084; Pforzheimer 973], foliom by H.L. for Matthew Lownes, 1611-1612. ⁂ An attractive copy of this first collected edition.
Spenser (Edmund) The Faerie Queen: The Shepheards Calendar: Together with the Other Works of England's Arch-Poet, first collection edition, second issue, with 2H6 and F4 blanks, title within elaborate allegorical woodcut border, divisional titles, many with woodcut ornaments or devices, woodcut initials, numerous illustrative woodcut head- and tail-pieces, title and A1 outer margins neatly repaired and restored, title a little creased with portion torn away at head, title and first few ff. spotted, several ff. with neat repairs and restorations to margins, X6 repaired affecting tail-piece with part supplied by hand, very occasional light browning, the odd spot or small rust hole, 20th century brown morocco by Zaehnsdorf, light rubbing to joints, g.e., [STC 23084; Pforzheimer 973], foliom by H.L. for Matthew Lownes, 1611-1612. ⁂ An attractive copy of this first collected edition.
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