° Spenser, Edmund - The Shepheards Calendar: together with ...

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237 - ° Spenser, Edmund - The Shepheards Calendar: together with the other works of England's Arch-Poet ....

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° Spenser, Edmund - The Shepheards Calendar: together with the other works of England's Arch-Poet ... collected into one volume, and carefully corrected. pictorial engraved title,
dedication (with elaborate head and tailpieces), decorative vignettes to head cantos in first work, and pictorial ones to head the months in the Calendar; (3), 364; (10), 56, 16 and (152)pp.; old half calf and marbled boards, gilt-lettered panelled spine, 4to. printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes, 1617

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Title and dedication fore-edge damage repair and laid down, some spots etc., but gen. clean, head and tailpiece decorations, decorated initials. Calendar - printed by Bar: Alsop for John Harrison the elder.... 1617; Mother Hubberd - printed by H.L. for Matthew Lownes, 1612. Others, pp. (152) with separate or drophead titles. Lacking from Calendar pp. 31.32 (pt. of July) with fore-edge damage (not text) pp. 33/34 and 35/36; front inner hinge weak

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25th Jan 22 at 12pm GMT