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Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queen Disposed Into Twelve Bookes Fashioning XII. Morall Virtues. Ashendene Press, London, 1923.

Price: US$7595.00 + shipping

Description: VIII, 408 pages. Folio, 44 x 30.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 180 copies on Batchelor paper bearing the Knight in Armour watermark, from the library of English architect and founder of the Essex House Press, Charles Robert Ashbee (bookplate front cover paste-down). Text based upon a collation of the Quartos of 1590 and 1596 and the Folio of 1609 and printed in three colors -- red, blue and black. A fine exemplar of Ashendene's large folio efforts. CAVE: THE PRIVATE PRESS, notes, "Nobody can declare that one or another book was a printer's best, with the variety of Ashendene books issued.on the whole I thinks I like the Faerie Queen and Morte Darthur best." HORNBY 32. RANSOM p.206. Raised bands, slight dark spot lower front cover. Publisher's quarter brown calf over vellum covered boards lettered in gilt. Fine in fine brown slipcase

Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.