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The shepheardes calender : conteyning twelve æglogues, proportionable to the twelve monethes.

Accession number
PML 143044
Creator
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
Published
Hammersmith, [London] : Printed at the Kelmscott Press, 14th day of October, 1896.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Imprint from colophon.
Illustrated with 12 full page wood engravings after A.J. Gaskin.
Golden type, with headings in red.
"Printed at the Kelmscott Press, Upper Mall, Hammersmith, in the county of middlesex, and finished on the 14th day of October, 1896. Sold by the trustees of the late William Morris at the Kelmscott Press."--Colophon.
One of an edition of 225 copies printed on paper, with an additional 6 copies on vellum.
Description
98 p. : ill. (wood engravings) ; 24 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Black morocco with morocco doublures, tooled in gilt by Minnie Louise MacLean, 1906.
Classification
Department