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Rare Books & Manuscripts
1:00 PM PT - Sep 25th, 2008

 

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Lot 2136 save

First Folio Edition of Spenser's Works

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Title: The Works of that Famous English Poet Mr. Edmond Spenser
Author: Spenser, Edmond
Description: [x], 338, [2] (title page of Prosopopoia, verso blank), [2] (p. 339, verso blank); [2], 5-16 pp; [viii], 1-2, 10-11, 9-162, [4], 171-258, 369-391 (387 misnumbered), [1]index + [2]catalogue (verso blank) pp. Frontispiece copper-engraving of Spenser's tomb, title-page printed in red and black. (Folio) 12¼x8, full leather with raised bands, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.Wing S4965.
Heading: Place Published: London
Publisher: Henry Hills for Jonathan Edwin
Date Published: 1679

Condition report

Front cover detached, covers worn; bookplate on front pastedown, front endpaper repaired but detached, frontispiece detached with marginal chips, offsetting to endpapers; text moderately browned, lacking 4 pages of text (half of stanza 13 to the end of Ruines of Rome), otherwise fair.

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