The poetical works of Edmund Spenser [complete in five volumes]

Spenser, Edmund (1552?-1599) ; Mitford, John [ed]

1852, First Edition. London : William Pickering. Very good copies all in full gilt-blocked, green aniline calf boards with inner gilt dentelles, and all edges gilt. Faintly scuffed covers, slightly rubbed along the board edges. Spines somewhat more worn, with minor cracks at joint ends; bottom two compartments lifting on v.1 and top compartment pivoting on rear joint. Marble endpapers; contemporary owner's autograph to flyleaves. Tight, bright and clean internally, with surprisingly sharp corners. A remarkably well-preserved and complete set. Item #456017

Series; The Aldine edition of the British poets. Physical description; complete in 5 volumes : portrait ; 17 cm. Notes; This edition originally published 1839. Includes a life of the poet by John Mitford. Contents; v. 1. Introductory sonnets ; The life of Edmund Spenser / by the Rev. J. Mitford ; The faerie queene. [Author's preliminaries] ; Book I-II -- v. 2. The faerie queene. Book II (continued)-IV -- v. 3. The faerie queene. Book IV (continued)-VI -- v. 4. The faerie queene. Book VI (continued) ; Miscellanies. Colin Clouts come home againe ; Virgils gnat ; The shepheards calendar : containing twelve aeglogues, proportionable to the twelve months -- v. 5. Fowre hymnes ; Three visions ; Prosopoia, or, Mother Hubbafds tale ; Prothalamoin, or, A spousall verse ; Epithalamion ; Poems ; Amoretti, or sonnets ; Daphnaida ; The doleful lay of Clorinda ; The mourning music of Thestylis ; A pastoral eglogue upon the death of Sir Phillip Sidney ; An elegie, or Friends passion for his Astrophil ; An epitaph upon the Right Honourable Sir Phillip Sidney ; Another of the same ; The teares of the Muses ; The ruines of Rome ; The ruines of time ; Muipotmos, or, The fate of the butterflie ; Brittain's Ida. Subjects; English poetry - Early modern, 1500-1700.

Price: €425.00