Spenser, Sir Edmund

Folio (10 7/8 x 7 1/4 in.; 277 x 184 mm).  Title within pastoral woodcut border (McKerrow & Ferguson 212), title-page for Part II of The Faerie Queen dated 1613 with printer's device (McKerrow 335) and continuous pagination and register with Part I, separate title-pages for the eleven other appended works, all but one dated 1617 (Mother Hubberd's Tale dated 1613), separate pagination and register for The Shepheards Calendar, continuous register but no pagination for the remaining works, numerous factotota composed of four various woodblocks in The Faerie Queen, twelve woodcut vignettes of seasonal labors flanked by printer's ornaments in The Shepheards Calendar, numerous woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces (of which some being McKerrow & Ferguson 180–181, 184–186); marginal stain on dedication leaf, marginal staining and browning on final leaf M2. Contemporary calf, double-filleted in blind, the spine in six compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering piece, spine head cracked affecting lettering-piece; joints dry.

Edmund Castell (1606–1685), Professor of Arabic, Cambridge University (signature "Edm. Castell" on title-page) — Bent Juel-Jenson. acquisition: Bernard Quaritch, 2007

STC 23085; ESTC S122304 

Folio (10 7/8 x 7 1/4 in.; 277 x 184 mm). Title within pastoral woodcut border (McKerrow & Ferguson 212), title-page for Part II of The Faerie Queen dated 1613 with printer's device (McKerrow 335) and continuous pagination and register with Part I, separate title-pages for the 11 other appended works, all but one dated 1617 (Mother Hubberd's Tale dated 1613), separate pagination and register for The Shepheard's Calender, continuous register but no pagination for the remaining works, numerous factotota composed of 4 various woodblocks in The Faerie Queen, 12 woodcut vignettes of seasonal labors flanked by printer's ornaments in The Shepheard's Calender, numerous woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces (of which some being McKerrow & Ferguson 180–181, 184–186); marginal stain on dedication leaf, marginal staining and browning on final leaf M2. Contemporary calf, double-filleted in blind, the spine in six compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering piece, spine head cracked affecting lettering piece, joints dry.
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A reissue of the 1611 edition (STC 23084), with the cancel general title-page and dedication. A crisp copy.