New Acquisitions Spring 2022 – 23 – Bauman Rare Books 26. (Fine Bindings) SPENSER, Edmund. The Poetical Works. New York and London, 1891. Five volumes. $4800. Later Aldine edition of the poems of Spenser, including The Faerie Queene, with portrait of the poet and extra-illustrated with 25 window-mounted engravings, ten hand-colored. “Spenser’s influence on English poetic literature cannot be readily overestimated… ‘No other of our poets,’ wrote James Russell Lowell, ‘has given an impulse, and in the right direction also, to so many and so diverse minds.’ Charles Lamb bestowed on Spenser his just title when he described him as ‘the poet’s poet’” (DNB). Includes a Life of Spenser. 25. (Fine Bindings) SHAKESPEARE, William. The Poetical Works. New York and London, 1892. $3800. Later Aldine edition of the Bard’s poems, with portrait of the poet and extraillustrated with five window-mounted engravings, two hand-colored. This beautiful volume includes “Venus and Adonis,” “The Rape of Lucrece” and the Sonnets. Includes Alexander Dyce’s Life of Shakespeare. 27. (Fine Bindings) WORDSWORTH, William. The Poetical Works. New York and London, 1892. Seven volumes. $6500. Later Aldine edition of the poems of Wordsworth, with portrait of the poet, folding facsimile, and extraillustrated with 35 window-mounted engravings, 15 hand-colored. “Wordsworth maintains his position, in general critical esteem, among the most eminent of the English line, many placing him third after Shakespeare and Milton” (Kunitz & Haycraft, 671). Includes a biography, bibliography, and extensive indexes. The “Aldine” edition of British poets, first brought out by the publisher William Pickering beginning in 1830, aimed to introduce scholarly editions of the classics in a smaller, more affordable format. We have a number of other fine extraillustrated “Aldine” titles in the same inlaid binding; please contact us for more details. Extra-Illustrated “Aldine” Editions of Poetical Works, Splendidly Bound
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