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Spenser's Minor Poems containing The Shepheardes Calendar Complaints. Daphnaida. Colin Clouts Come Home Again. Amoretti. Hymnes Epithalamion. Prothalamion. Sonnets and Sundrie Other Verses

SPENSER Edmund 1552?-1599

  • Publisher: Ashendene Press, HORNBY Charles Harry St. John 1867-1946
  • Published: 1925 , Shelley House, Chelsea
  • Condition: Near Fine
Shelley House, Chelsea: Ashendene Press, HORNBY Charles Harry St. John 1867-1946 , 1925. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. One of 200 copies on paper, original calf-backed vellum, spine lettered in gilt, raised bands, edges rubbed, very light fading. Internally, [4], [2], 3-216 pp, edges uncut, printed in Subiaco type in red, blue and black, double column, initials designed by Graily Hewitt, the odd spot, Lloyd Kenyon, 5th Baron Kenyon's bookplate (fpd) & ink gift inscription to him 'from the Family' (fep). The printing was begun in the month of May of the year 1924 & finished in the month of July of the year following. (435*299 mm). (Hornby 35. Franklin The Private Presses p196; Franklin The Ashendene Press p240-241. Tomkinson p8. Ransom p206). *** The last of the Ashendene folios printed in the Subiaco type, published as a companion to Spenser's Faerie Queen of two years earlier. This printing is a monument of private-press craftsmanship-important as much for typography and book history as for Spenser's poetry itself. These poems show the breadth of Spenser's art: pastoral, elegy, love lyric, marriage ode, and political allegory.

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