THE POETICAL WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER ... Introductory Observations on the Faerie Queene, and Notes, by the Editor. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1839. 12mo, five volumes, original decorated cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold and blind, all edges untrimmed. First edition of this text. This edition, anonymously edited by G. S. Hillard, includes a lengthy introductory essay, "An Essay on the Life and Writings of Edmund Spenser" (anonymous, but by George Robinson according to Lowndes), republished from the five-volume Pickering edition of Spencer published in 1825, which, according to Hillard, "was taken as the basis of the present one ... The Introductory Observations upon the 'Faerie Queene,' the glossarial and explanatory notes, have been added by the present editor." NCBEL I 1030. Lowndes, p. 2477. Cloth a bit sunned, some scattered foxing throughout the text blocks, a very good set. An uncommon edition, especially in the original cloth. (#109700).
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