Spenser's Faerie Queene A Poem in Six Books with the Fragment Mutabilitie
by Spenser, Edmund; Thomas J. Wise; Walter Crane
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Midway Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 71892
- Title
- Spenser's Faerie Queene A Poem in Six Books with the Fragment Mutabilitie
- Author
- Spenser, Edmund; Thomas J. Wise; Walter Crane
- Format/Binding
- 3/4 Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited edition
- Publisher
- George Allen
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1897
- Bookseller catalogs
- illustrated;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Glossary
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...