Monday, January 5, 2015

CA. 1888 POETICAL WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER Illustrated Victorian Fine Binding

CA. 1888

THE POETICAL WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER
EDITED FROM THE BEST EDITIONS
WITH MEMOIR, NOTES, AND GLOSSARY

ILLUSTRATED

*** RARE ANTIQUE EDITION ~ BEAUTIFUL VICTORIAN FINE BINDING ~ ENGRAVINGS ~ CLASSIC POETRY ~ THE FAERIE QUEENE ~ FANTASY ~ TUDORS ~ FAIRIES ~ SORCERERS ~ KNIGHTS ***

Publisher:
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., no date, circa 1888.

Features:
• measures about 7.25'' x 5.25''
• beautiful original publisher's decorative cloth Victorian fine binding
• detailed embossed gilt and black stamping
• textblock all edges gilt
• frontispiece portrait of Spenser with tissue-guard
• illustrated with full-page engraved plates
• red-line border to every page of text