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The Faerie Queene: Disposed into Twelve Bookes, fashioning XII. Morall Vertues.
by Spenser, Edmund
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge. Fair with no dust jacket. 1859. Hardcover. Rebacked in amateur fashion. The original leather spine has been laid down onto the new leather, but this original spine is in very poor condition with very bad dry rot and large chips missing. Internally good. 19th century heraldic bookplate of Francis Digby Spencer Neave. Inscription to Francis Digby S. Neave, "on his leaving Eton", from J. W. Martyn, dated 1860. ; "Fifth Edition with a Glossary". xii, 820 pages + frontispiece. Full leather binding. Calf boards. Amateur rebacking, with later leather spine overlapping the leather of the front boards. Marbled endpapers and page edges. Page dimensions: 165 x 98mm. A nineteenth century edition of Spencer's long poem, the first part of which was originally published in 1590.; 16mo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12698
- Title
- The Faerie Queene: Disposed into Twelve Bookes, fashioning XII. Morall Vertues.
- Author
- Spenser, Edmund
- Illustrator
- Corbauld, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1859
- Keywords
- Poetry
Terms of Sale
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Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Calf
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- Rebacked
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- New
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- Poor
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- Bookplate
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- Fair
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