Apr 07, 2008 - Sale 2141

Sale 2141 - Lot 157

Price Realized: $ 2,280
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
SPENSER, EDMUND. The Faerie Queene: The Shepheards Calendar: Together with the Other Works of England's Arch-Poët, Edm. Spenser: Collected into one Volume, and carefully corrected. General title within woodcut historiated border; canto headings within woodcut composite borders in The Faerie Queene; 12 divisional woodcuts in The Shepheards Calendar. Integral blanks present. [4], 363, [3]; [16]; [10], 56, [2]; 16; [134] (of [136]) pages, including the integral blanks; lacks M2 (last leaf, with The Visions of Petrarch). 5 parts in one volume. Folio, 264x177 mm, modern buckram and early 19th-century backstrip and covers laid down; light marginal dampstaining at beginning, general title torn in lower inner corner and mounted, worming in blank upper margins in first half of volume, portion torn from outer margin of E2 in Epithalamion touching a few letters, stains on title of Foure Hymnes and next leaf, M1 torn in lower margin and mounted. London: H. L. for Mathew Lownes, 1611-13

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first collected edition of Spenser's works; second printing of The Faerie Queen and first printing of the remaining parts as described by Johnson. Johnson 19; Pforzheimer 973.