Accession number
PML 143127-28
Creator
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
Published
London : J.M. Dent & Co., 1897.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
"... disposed into twelve books fashioning twelve moraff vertues."
Illustrated throughout with wood-engraved ornaments, borders, initials, head- and tailpieces, and full page illustrations by Fairfax-Muckley.
"This edition of Spenser's Faerie queene is limited to 100 copies on handmade paper, and 1250 ordinary copies, for England and America, after printing which the type has been distributed."--Half t.p. verso
"Here endeth the Faerie queene of Edmund Spenser, the re-printing of which was begun by Turnbull & Spears in Edinburgh on the fifth of May mdcccxcvi, and finished on the thirteenth day of August mdcccxcvii. ..."--Colophon.
Illustrated throughout with wood-engraved ornaments, borders, initials, head- and tailpieces, and full page illustrations by Fairfax-Muckley.
"This edition of Spenser's Faerie queene is limited to 100 copies on handmade paper, and 1250 ordinary copies, for England and America, after printing which the type has been distributed."--Half t.p. verso
"Here endeth the Faerie queene of Edmund Spenser, the re-printing of which was begun by Turnbull & Spears in Edinburgh on the fifth of May mdcccxcvi, and finished on the thirteenth day of August mdcccxcvii. ..."--Colophon.
Description
2 v. (1155 p.) : ill. (wood engravings) ; 25 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Green morocco with red morocco onlays and elaborately tooled turn-ins .
Classification
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