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[Ashendene Press] — Spenser, Edmund

The Faerie Queene disposed into Twelve Bookes fashioning XII. Morall Vertues. Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1923

Folio (430 x 300mm). Subiaco type, printed in black, red, and blue in double column, initials designed by Graily Hewitt. [With:] Minor Poems Containing the Shepheardes Calender. Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1925. Folio (430 x 300mm). Subiaco and Greek types, printed in black, red, and blue in double column. Uniformly bound in half brown calf and ivory velum, spines with raised bands in six compartments, first and sixth gilt-lettered; upper joint of The Faerie Queene starting, some minor foxing to fore-edge of Minor Poems, otherwise a fine pair. Housed in morocco-tipped slipcase.  

Limited edition, one of 180 copies printed on Batchelor paper, of which 150 were for sale; another 12 copies were printed on vellum (The Faerie Queene). The present text is based on that edited for the Oxford University Press by J.C. Smith, which was taken from a collection of the quartos of 1590 and 1596. 

Magnificent folios—a masterpiece of the Ashendene Press.

REFERENCE:

Hornby XXXII and XXV

PROVENANCE:

Allerton Cushman Hickmott (morocco booklable to front pastedown of The Faerie Queene)