Spenser (Edmund), The Faerie Queene. With an exact Collation...

Hammer

£250

Spenser (Edmund), The Faerie Queene. With an exact Collation of the Two Original Editions [...], To which are now added, A new Life of the Author [...], three-volume set, London: J. Brindley, 1751, illustrated with 30 full-page plates engraved by William Kent, volume I extra-illustrated with a slightly later portrait frontispiece of the poet, contemporary speckled calf, slightly tired, bumped, chipped, rubbed, etc, previously with Galloway & Porter, Cambridge, their loosely-inserted slip, 4to, (3). 

Provenance: Evelyn Hill, 20th century pictorial bookplates to each pastedown.