Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, Ruskin House Edition

London: George Allen, Ruskin House, 1894, complete in six volumes edited by Thomas J. Wise, illustrations by Walter Crane, in a very handsome binding, full black morocco with rich gilt scrolling borders and dentelle, the spines with raised bands and gilt decoration and lettering, the top edges cut and gilt, with silk register ribbon and moire endpapers, the inside boards with red morocco panels within wide black morocco borders, with rich dentelle and double fillets with scrolling corners centering a stylized red and green Tudor rose, the inside front board with bookplate of Frank Clark Dougherty, 11" x 9" [6].


Provenance: Estate of Violeta Judell Van Ronzelen, Lima, Peru; New Orleans, Louisiana.