Oct 12, 2023 - Sale 2648

Sale 2648 - Lot 33

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
Spenser, Edmund (1552?-1599)
The Shepheards Calender: Conteyning Twelve Aeglogues, proportionable to the Twelve Moneths.

London: Printed by Thomas Creede for John Harrison the yonger, 1597.

Second edition, quarto, woodcut printer's device to title page; illustrated with woodcut vignettes; this copy bought as imperfect from Seven Gables in 1968 and perfected by Pickering & Chatto n 1974; with final eight leaves supplied; bound in full red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; some faint water staining, 7 1/8 x 5 3/8 in.

STC 23093; Pforzheimer 977; ESTC S111273.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.