Edmund Spenser COMPLETE The Faerie Queen 1611 Folio Shakespeare 1ST ED NR

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Easton Press Edmund Spenser ' S " The Faerie Queene " Three Leather Volumes

BOUND IN FULL LEATHER, HUBBED SPINE, BEAUTIFUL COVER AND ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT. SATIN RIBBON PAGE MARKER, GILDED PAGE EDGES, MOIRE ENDSHEETS AND THREAD SEWN PAGES.LARGE BOOKS 11 X 812A BEAUTIFUL THREE VOLUME RECREATION OF EDMUND SPENSER'S EPIC POEM COME TO LIFE WITH HUNDREDS OF VINTAGE IMAGES CREATED BY RENOWNED ILLUSTRATOR WALTER CRANE.EXCELLENT CONDITION. THERE IS ONE SMALL MARK ON THE GILT ON VOLUME 3. PLEASE SEE PICTURE.

Spenser, Edmund. " The Faerie Queene " Pub: Folio Society 2011. Very Rare Ltd Ed.

Spenser, Edmund - The Faerie Queene Limited Edition (Published in by The Folio Society in 2012. 1, 712 pages in total. Book Size: 10¾" x 8½". Bound in Wassa goatskin, blocked in gold. Ribbon markers. Limited to 1, 000 copies of which this is number 530. Gilded top edges. Printed on watermarked laid paper. Presented in a wooden slipcase covered in Toile Vendôme, with a sliding tray in the base for ease of use. One of the most beautiful works of the Arts and Crafts Movement - a gorgeous facsimi...le of a piece of publishing history. Strictly limited to 1, 000 numbered copies. Very clean. No owners inscriptions, annotations or bookplates. Good tight binding to all volumes. The sixteenth century was the golden age of English poetry. Edmund Spenser burned to create an English equivalent to Virgil's Aeneid. Instead of lauding the Caesars, he would glorify Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen. Where Virgil connected Rome to the heroic past of Troy, Spenser would forge a link between Tudor England and the mythological age of King Arthur. The result was The Faerie Queene, a rich allegory which elevated Protestant virtues through the medium of a romantic, chivalric epic. Today the power of Spenser's story and the beauty of his verse still live in 'famous memory'. Rather as Spenser himself looked to 'antique times', the Arts and Crafts movement of the late-19th century looked back nostalgically to the Middle Ages. Walter Crane, an illustrator and associate of William Morris, was inspired by Edmund Spenser. He, after all, was a quintessentially English writer, dedicated to the noble aims of justice, honour and chivalry to which Crane himself, a socialist and romantic, was also committed. He illustrated the poem so lavishly that this sumptuous edition became a legend of book production in its own right. Born in London around 1552 to a family of modest means, Edmund Spenser was educated as a poor scholar at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He managed to gain work with the government, and served in Ireland, where he met the influential court favourite and poet, Sir Walter Raleigh. His own poetry, including The Faerie Queene, was written in between his official duties and he succeeded in gaining an introduction to read his works to the Queen in 1589. The Queen was so impressed with his epic that she granted Spenser an annual pension of 50. Elizabeth's chief minister Lord Burghley is supposed to have grumbled, 'What, all this for a song' Spenser's Irish estate was burned during an attack in 1598. He left Ireland a year later and returned to London, where he died aged 47. His coffin was interred in Westminster Abbey close to Chaucer, an indication of the immense stature he had acquired. His inscription hails: 'Prince of Poets in his tyme whose Divine Spirrit needs noe othir witnesse then the works which he left behinde him.' Each Book tells the adventure of a different knight, representing a virtue. Prince Arthur, who is searching for the Faerie Queene, acts as a common thread through the Books, assisting the various knights in their quests. Spenser wrote to Sir Walter Raleigh describing an ambitious plan of twelve Books, and perhaps even more. He completed six, which, at a total of 35, 000 lines, makes The Faerie Queene the longest poem in the English language. Such is the quality of his poetry and storytelling that it is hard to think of The Faerie Queene as unfinished, rather it presents a series of adventures as timeless as any myth or legend.No copies for sale by Ardis Books (the UK Folio Society specialist).No copies for sale on abe books.co.ukOne copy for sale on ebay.co.uk listed by a US bookseller for 1175 plus 184 postage - with no caseI aim to be always the cheapest. All my Folio Society books are dispatched post free within the UK. Please ask first for quote if you are not from UK.

Spenser ' S The Faerie Queen Both Volumes Published By Dent Everymans Library

FROMSCRUNCHYKNICKERS THIS ITEM IS AVAILABLE FOR WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTIONDue to Ebay's new feedback system I no longer dispatch via Surface MailI No Longer Dispatch to An Overseas P.O. Box AddressPost Packing Costs (where applicable) will be combined for multiple purchases This item lot comes from a deceased estateSpenser's The Faerie Queen Both Volumes Published By Dent Everymans Library . Faults The spine covers show some very minor age rubbing onlySome other very minor ageing blemishes onlyPleas...

" The Faerie Queen " By Edmund Spenser Folio Limited Edition 2011

"The Faerie Queen" by Edmund Spenser Folio Limited Edition 2011. This is a 3 volume set, with all books and slipcase in like new condition. Limited edition of 1000 copies, this is number 494. The books are bound in Wassa goatskin, blocked in gold. Gilded top edges, printed on watermarked laid paper. Ribbon markers. Slipcase is wooden covered with Tsarina Crush, with sliding tray for ease of use. Books measure 10.75 inches by 8.5 inches. No defects. Stored away from direct sunlight. Stunning fasc...

Folio Society The Faerie Queene Edmund Spenser Illustrated By Walter Crane 3vols

"one of the most beautiful works of the Arts and Crafts Movement"FOLIO SOCIETY The Faerie Queene in 3 volsby Edmund SpenserLimited to 1, 000 copiesIllustrated by Walter CraneWalter Crane produced 88 large illustrations and 135 illustrative head and tailpieces, as well as overseeing the production of these large, beautifully printed volumes.PUBLISHED in 2009 by Folio Society, LondonBound in Wassa goatskin, blocked in goldBook Size: 10¾" x 8½", 1, 712 pages in totalGilded top edge and permanent ...

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Edmund Spenser Complete Faerie Queene Virgils Gnat Fine Leather Bind 1871

I have here for sale a book entitled COMPLETE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER edited by R. MORRIS. This GLOBE EDITION was published in 1871 by MACMILLAN, London.Includes the epic poem THE FAERIE QUEENE a fantastical view of the Tudor dynasty and in celebration of Elizabeth I, The Shepheards Calendar, Ruins of Time, Teares of the Muses, Mother Hubberds Tale, Virgils Gnat and more.Nicely bound in green leather boards. Gilt title lettering to the spine which has 5 raised bands- leather splitting on the top...

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Reference Number: Avaluer:7001345	Year Printed: 1611
Author: Edmund Spenser	Topic: Classics
Subject: Literature & Fiction	Binding: Fine Binding
English History: Jacobean	Region: Europe
Poetry: Epic Poetry	Law & Government: Political Science
Original/Facsimile: Original	Literature & Fiction: Poetry
Christianity: Protestantism	History: Europe
Elizbethan Poetry: William Shakespeare	Religion & Sprituality: Christianity, Bibles
Colin Clouts Come Home Again: Mother Hubberd's Tale	English Literature: Elizabethan
Language: English	Literature: Elizabethan
Sir Philip Sidney: Astrophel	Philosophy: Humanism
Publisher: Matthew Lownes	First Edition: First Complete Edition
Place of Publication: London	Illustrations: Woodcuts
Special Attributes: First Edition, Literature, Fine Binding, First Appearance in Print, Exceptionally Rare, Poetry, Jacobean, Satire, Woodcuts, Epic Poetry, The Faerie Queene, 1st Edition

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