SPENSER, Edmund.

£375 · Offered by Peter Harrington

The Faerie Queene. First Warren edition, the first edition of The Fairie Queene edited by a woman. Kate Mary Warren (1850-1950) was a distinguished literary scholar and lecturer at the pioneering women's colleges Westfield and Bedford. The photographic frontispieces capture locations tied to Spenser's life and ground "Faerie Land" in the Irish landscape.

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