The Faerie Queene

by Edmund Spenser, Cedric Chivers

$14,500 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books

STUNNING CHIVERS VELLUCENT BINDINGS. One of 100 large-paper copies, illustrated by Louis Fairfax Muckley. The three thick quarto volumes are elegantly printed on handmade paper and illustrated throughout with images and designs by the British artist and illustrator Louis Fairfax Muckley. The illustrations are magnificent and feature the plates in two states, red and black.The bindings by Chivers, however, are the star of the show and

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