The complete works in verse and prose of Edmund Spenser / edited, with a new life, based on original researches, and a glossary embracing notes and illustrations, by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart. [complete in 9 volumes]

Spenser, Edmund (1552?-1599)

1882, Limited Edition. [London] : printed for private circulation, 1882-1884. Good to very good copies in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Gilt-tooled portrait and decorative border to front panels. Spines bands worn with some fraying evident in places. Spine covers faded and sun-toned. Some fading and toning also evident to the panels of vols. 1-3 and 7-9. Panel edges dulled and rubbed. Bumped corners. Small tear between the top of the spine cover and front panel of vol. 5. Vols. 6, 7, 8 and 9 are unread copies with unopened pages. Fore and bottom page edges rough-trimmed. Internally, pages are clean and bright, with just some scattered spots of marginal foxing evident in places. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Further scans, images etc. and additional bibliographical material available on request. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages; Physical description: 9 v. : facsim., ill., maps ; 20 cm. 100 copies only in this form --c.f. title page. Contents: v. 1. Life of Spenser / by the editor, with appendix. Essays: Characteristics of Spenser's poetry / by Aubrey de Vere. Spenser the poet and teacher / by Prof. Edward Dowden. Certain aspects of the poetry of Spenser / by the Rev. W.B. Philpot. The introspection and outlook of Spenser / by the Rev. William Hubbard -- v. 2. The Shepheards calender and Glosse (1597): with various readings of the quartos 1579-91 -- v. 3. Complaints 1590-91. Essay on English pastoral poetry / by E.W. Gosse. Rider on the same ; Who were Rosalinde and Menalcas? ; Notices of Edward Kirke / by the editor -- v. 4. Essays on the minor poems of Spenser / by F.T. Palgrave. Daphnaida: an elegie upon the death of ... Douglas Howard, etc. 1591. Colin Clouts come home again, 1595. Amoretti and Epithalamion, 1595. Fowre hymnes, 1596. Prothalamion, or A spousal verse, etc. 1596. Astrophel, etc. and Sonnets -- v. 5. The faerie queene. bk. i.-ii. -- v. 6. The faerie queene. bk. ii. (continued)-iii. -- v. 7. The faerie queene. bk. iii. (continued)-v. -- v. 8. The faerie queene. bk v. (continued)-vi. Two cantos of Mvtabilitie. Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh. Commendatory poems and sonnets -- v. 9. Prose: A veue of the present state of Ireland. Letters, etc. Subjects: Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Collected works -- Biography -- English literature -- Poetry -- Verse -- Prose -- Studies, interpretation and criticism. Item #218315

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