Lot 189
Spenser, Edmund
The Faerie Queene
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
[London]: Printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes, 1617. Folio in sixes [ESTC S122304]; [bound with] The Shepheards Calender. London: Printed by Bar: Alsop for John Harrison the Elder, 1617. Folio in sixes; [bound with] Prosopopoia. Or Mother Huberds Take. London: Printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes, 1612; [bound with] Colin Clouts Come Home Againe. London: Printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes; [bound with] Prothalamion. London: Printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes, 1617; Epithalamion. London: Printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes, 1617; [bound with] Foure Hymns. London: Printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes, 1617; [bound with] Daphinaida... London: Printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes, 1617; [bound with] Complaints containing Sundry Small Poems... London: Printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes, 1617; [bound with] The Teares of the Muses. London: Printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes, [1617]; [bound with] Muiopotmos, or The Fate of the Butterfly. London: Printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes, 1617; the whole collection collating: [4], 363, [29], 56, [2], 16, [133], later calf with banded spine, endpapers renewed, Q1 with a small hole slightly affecting text, some rust stains/small tears affecting a few margins, some light soiling and spotting in places, some adhesion to a couple of pages slightly affecting text