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Faerie Queene.: With an Introduction by Professor J. W. Hales.
by SPENSER, Edmund
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd; E. P. Dutton & Co., New York,, [1910] & 1912. Everyman's Library edition, in the publisher's deluxe quarter pigskin, the most expensive of the four bindings in which it was issued, and produced in smaller numbers than the others. The remaining three binding styles that the classic reprint series offered in its earliest years were full cloth, full leatherette, and a library binding. The first volume is in the second printing of 1912. Two volumes, octavo. Original brown quarter pigskin, spines lettered in gilt within frame incorporating Everyman's Library monogram, brown cloth sides ruled in blind, linen endpapers, edges brown. Decorative title pages and textual frontispieces with intricate woodcut floral border in the arts and crafts style. Vol. II spine lightly sunned, vol. I initial leaves slightly creased at corners, contents clean: a very good copy. Terry Seymour, A Printing History of Everyman's Library 1906-1982, 2011, p. 6.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 164716
- Title
- Faerie Queene.
- Author
- SPENSER, Edmund
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd; E. P. Dutton & Co., New York,
- Date Published
- [1910] & 1912
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
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London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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