Item #135601 THE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER. Edmund Spenser.
THE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER.
THE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER.
THE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER.
THE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER.

THE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER.

In eight volumes, totalling over 2,000 pages; printed in red, blue, & black, with numerous hand-coloured text illustrations and decorations, decorative initials; impl. 8vo; qr. green hermitage calf, spines lettered in gilt, Cockerell marbled papered boards with vellum corner tips, the boards a trifle rubbed, with a couple of tiny surface grazes, a few corners faintly bruised, a couple of the spines slightly faded, with tiny stain to spine of Volume I and slight bruise to spine of Volume IV; uncut, partly unopened; a little pale foxing of top edges and faint offsetting of endpapers and outer blanks; printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and published for the press by Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1930-32. Edition limited to 386 numbered sets; this being one of 375 thus bound. Ransom Selective Check Lists 67. *The text of this edition was edited by Professor W. L. Renwick. The decorations were designed and engraved on wood by Hilda Quick, with those in The Shepheardes Calender being based on the woodcuts in the original editions. The initial letters and headings were also engraved by Hilda Quick, from designs by Joscelyne V. Gaskin. The pictorial title page of Volume VIII and the map of Ireland which forms the frontispiece to the same volume were drawn by Macdonald Gill. Item #135601

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