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    By Edmund Spenser; [Ed.] Ernest De Selincourt; [Ed.] J.C. Smith
    Oxford   At The Clarendon Press
    8.5" by 5.5" xxxi, [1], 528; xxii, [1], 518, [1]; vi, 519, [1]pp.
    A lovely three volume set of the poetical works of influential poet Edmund Spenser, in the original dust wrappers.
    By Edmund Spenser; [Ed.] Ernest De Selincourt; [Ed.] J.C. Smith

    1966-1968 The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: Minor Poems Faerie Queen

    Oxford   At The Clarendon Press
    8.5" by 5.5" xxxi, [1], 528; xxii, [1], 518, [1]; vi, 519, [1]pp.
    A lovely three volume set of the poetical works of influential poet Edmund Spenser, in the original dust wrappers.
    £325.00
    : 3kgs / : 984G32
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    Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

    A complete three volume set of The Poetical Works of English poet Edmund Spenser, who is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse, and is considered one of the great poets in the English language. 

    Edited by Ernest De Selincourt and J.C. Smith. 

    Including:

    1966 Volume I Minor Poems
    Contains an introduction, Shepheardes Calender, Complaints, Daphnaida, Colin Clovts Come Home Again, Amoretti And Eithalamion, Prothalamion and Miscellaneous Sonnets.

    Volume II Faerie Queene Books I-III
    Contains the first three books of Spenser's Faerie Queene.

    Volume III Faerie Queen Books IV-VII
    Contains the fourth to the seventh books of Spenser's Faerie Queen.

    In publisher's original blue cloth bindings. With the original dust wrappers. Volume I's wrap is clipped, whilst Volume II and III's wraps are unclipped. 

    Each volume includes the original title pages and are illustrated throughout the text.

    Condition

    In publisher's cloth bindings. In the original dust wrappers. Externally, excellent. Very minor shelf wear to extremities. Light spotting to boards of Volume III. Dust wrappers are very smart. Volume I's wrap is clipped, whilst Volume II and III's wraps are unclipped. Sunning to spines and edges with light shelf wear to extremities and the odd small closed tear. mark to spine of Vol I's wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Light spotting to fore edges, most significant to Volume III.

    Near Fine

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