WITH BEAUTIFUL AND SCARCE TRIPLE EDGE PAINTINGS FEATURING A PORTRAIT OF EDMUND SPENSER AND CHIVALRIC SCENES

SPENSER, Edmund. Works of Edmund Spenser. London, circa 1870.

Later edition of Spenser's complete works, with frontispiece portrait of Edmund Spenser and vignette title page, beautifully bound in full morocco-gilt with a scarce triple edge painting depicting Edmund Spenser and several scenes of medieval knights and ladies. $2000.

CHISWICK PRESS EDITION OF SPENSER’S WORKS, HANDSOMELY BOUND

SPENSER, Edmund. Works of Edmund Spenser. London, 1862. Five volumes. Splendid Chiswick Press edition of Spenser’s works, with biography by J. Payne Collier, very handsomely bound in full morocco-gilt. A lovely set. $1500.

“FOR WE BY CONQUEST, OF OUR SOVERAINE MIGHT…

HAVE WONNE THE EMPIRE OF THE HEAVENS BRIGHT”

SPENSER, Edmund. The Poetical Works. London, 1825. Five volumes. Early 19th-century edition of the works of “the poet’s poet,” handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf. $1200.

“THE POET’S POET”

SPENSER, Edmund. The Poetical Works. London, 1845. Five volumes.

Elegantly bound edition of Spenser’s poetry, with frontispiece portrait of the poet in Volume I. $1200.

“THE POET’S POET”: SPENSER’S POETICAL WORKS

SPENSER, Edmund. The Poetical Works. Boston, 1880. Five volumes in three. Handsomely bound edition of Spenser’s poetry, with engraved frontispiece portrait of the poet in Volume I. $800.

“THE POET’S POET”

SPENSER, Edmund. Poetical Works. London, 1912. Early 20th-century edition (the “Oxford Spenser”) of Spenser’s verse—including his extravagant epic in praise of Queen Elizabeth, The Faerie Queene—illustrated with frontispiece and title page facsimiles, handsome in vellum. $425.

“THE POET’S POET”: MID-19TH CENTURY EDITION OF SPENSER’S WORKS, HANDSOMELY BOUND

SPENSER, Edmund. Works. London, 1840.

Later, one-volume edition of Spenser’s works, with engraved frontispiece portrait and additional engraved title page, handsomely bound. $400.