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Spenser's Faerie Queene (Book II. Cantos IX.-XII.)
by Spenser, Edmund
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London, Eng: George Allen, 1895. Paperback. Very Good. Crane, Walter. Edited by Thomas J. Wise; Part VI with eight full-page and other illustrations by Walter Crane. Printed by Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press on handmade "Unbleached Arnold" paper. [4], 421-527, [5], vii-viii p.: added engraved title page, 7 additional leaves of plates, and many in-text illustrations; 28 cm. Original reddish brown illustrated wrappers with overlapping edges. Final 3 leaves contain half title page, added engraved title page, and table of contents for Book II, all presumably meant to be bound in front of Book II when the parts were taken to a binder. Pages are unopened. In Very Good Condition: wrapper edges are chipped with slight loss of paper at ends of spine and along lower edges and fore-edges; front section of wrapper is detached and back section is largely detached; wrapper is foxed; first and last two leaves foxed; very occasional foxed elsewhere; pages and plates are otherwise clean and bright. Very scarce in the original wrappers.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000879
- Title
- Spenser's Faerie Queene (Book II. Cantos IX.-XII.)
- Author
- Spenser, Edmund
- Illustrator
- Crane, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- George Allen
- Place of Publication
- London, Eng
- Date Published
- 1895
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Fine Binding & Printing;
Terms of Sale
Classic Books and Ephemera
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About the Seller
Classic Books and Ephemera
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
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Glossary
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- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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