The Faerie Queene with: The Second Part of the Faerie Queene

by Edmund Spenser

$120,000 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

London: John Wolf for William Ponsonbie; Richard Field for William Ponsonby, 1590, 1596. First edition. Two vols, quarto 188 x 131 mm . Early 20th-century crushed red morocco, gilt-lettered on spine, board-edges gilt-ruled and turn-ins gilt, edges gilt, by Roger de Coverley & Sons; in two-part full morocco slipcase. Woodcut printer's device on each title McKerrow 242 & 222 ,

• Binding: Leather

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