THE FAERIE QUEEN: Disposed Into Twelve Bookes. Fashioning XII Morall Virtues. To Which is Added EPITHALAMION
by Spenser, Edmund
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Very Good
- Seller
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Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: G. Routledge & Co, 1855. Full-Leather. Near Very Good. Third Edition, with a Glossary. Title page states 1855. Beautifully illustrated with 8 Full-Page Plates by Edward Corbould, protected by thin blank paper guards. Frontis illustrated with a Knight, a Lady and a Friar. Contemporary Red/Brown Full-Leather Binding with 5 Raised Bands to spine. Gilt Title in 2nd compartment with Gilt Decoration illing the others. Gilt linear border to front 7 back. Endpapers and all page edges "Marbled" ( Combed Pattern ). 820 Pages, 630g, 6 5/8" Tall. Presentation Label on endpaper (Harrow), dated 1857. No other inscriptions, Pages & Plates in very good, clean condition. Small split to leather on right side of spine at the bottom (1" long) and another smaller one at top left (1/2" long). Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
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- Bookseller
- Cornish Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015346
- Title
- THE FAERIE QUEEN: Disposed Into Twelve Bookes. Fashioning XII Morall Virtues. To Which is Added EPITHALAMION
- Author
- Spenser, Edmund
- Format/Binding
- Full-Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- G. Routledge & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1855
- Keywords
- ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS/POETRY/CLASSICS
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