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Edmunde Spencer. Early Collected Works of Edmund Spencer Including The Faerie Queene: A Poem, The Shepheards Calender, P...
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Edmunde Spencer. Early Collected Works of Edmund Spencer Including The Faerie Queene: A Poem, The Shepheards Calender, Prosopopoia or Mother Hubberds Tale, et al. London: Printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes, 1612-1617. Octavo (11 x 7 inches; 279 x 178 mm). 363 (The Faerie Queene); 56 (The Shepheard Calender); 16 (Mother Hubberbs Tale); [10, "Author's Intention" and various poems); [1, blank]; [16, "Colin Clouts Come Home Again"]; [10, various poems]; [4, "Prothalamion"]; [18, sonnets]; [14, "Four Hymnes"]; [10, "Daphnaida"]; [12, "Complaints Containing Sundry Small Poems..."]; [6, "Tears of the Muses"]; [8, "Virgils Gnat"] [6, The Ruines of Rome"]; [10, The Fate of the Butterfly"]; [8, "Visions of the Worlds Vanitie"] pages. "The Faerie Queene" with 1612 on the title page and "16012" on the colophon; "The Shepheards Calender" with 1617 on the title page; "Mother Hubberd" with 1613 on the title page; "Prothalamion" with 1617 on the title page; "Four Hymnes" with 1617 on the title page; "Daphnaida" with 1617 on the title page; "Complaints Containing Sundry Small Poemes" with a 1617 date on the title page; "The Teares of the Muses" with a 1617 date on the title page; "The Fate of the Butterfly" with a 1617 dated title page. Woodcut illustrations and ornamental borders, decorative woodcut tail and head pieces and initials. Contemporary calf, rebacked. Title in gilt on a morocco label mounted in a compartment between five raised spine bands. Marbled endpapers. Wear along the edges of the boards with some flaking to the leather; hinges repaired with cloth tape; title page of "Four Hymnes" repaired; light damp staining and soiling throughout. Generally very good. Grolier, Langland to Wither, 239.This description has been updated to include the following note:
Lacking general "Workes" title page. The title page for "The Faerie Queen" is lacking and has instead been supplied in manuscript (including the date of 1612). Property from the Estate of Robert (Bobby) Palazzo, Westlake Village, CA.
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2020 October 15 - 16 Rare Books Signature Auction Featuring Otto Penzler Mystery Fiction Part III - Dallas #6230 (go to Auction Home page)
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