THE FAERIE QUEENE In Two Volumes: Vol. I: Books I-III; Vol. II: Books IV-VII.

Two Volumes. Original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spines, publisher's monogram in blind to the front panels, in dustwrappers. A near fine set, bindings square and firm, cloth and gilt sharp, the contents clean throughout. Top edges a little dusty with a few light spots. In the price-clipped dustwrappers, a little toned and spotted to spines, with a little rubbing to extremities, with a couple of nicks and a small patch of loss to the lower outer corner of Vol. I.

First issued in 1909, J. C. Smith's edition of the 'Faerie Queene' (Vols. II and III of the three-volume Clarendon Spenser) sought to present "a true text" of Spenser's great poem, "founded upon a fresh collation of the Quartos of 1590 and 1596 and the Folio of 1609. [...] The fragmentary Seventh Book appeared first in 1609: for the rest the text is based on 1596."

Stock code: 24790

£65

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