farfel_n07_032_483

483
Dawson's
Los Angeles
Feb. '98
$50
See #225 Edmund Spencer (c. 1552-1599)
The Faerie Queene
Ashendene Press - 1923
Copy HEHL, Stanford
Biblio. XXXII. The Faerie Queene Disposed into 12 books
Fashioning XII morall Vertues by Edmund
Spencer. md CCCCXXIII
Printed at the Ashendene Press, at Shelley-House,
Chelsea in the county of Middlesax by
C. H. St. J. Hornby asisted by I. Jenkins,
compositor + G. Faulkner, Pressmen.
- begun Jan. 1932 - ended Nov. 1923.
180 copies paper, 12 vellum (for sale at 105 guineas)
folio [A] 4 leaves; B-Z, AA, BB in eights;
CC b leaves (435x300 mm)
Stanford Typo Colection Z 239.2 A8S74f Pp viii + 408. text of Faerie Queene
pp 9-406. Shoulder notes + verses at the head of each Cnato
are printed in red + the large initials in red+ blue alternately.
2 col. on Batchelor paper bearing the Knight
in Armous watermark.
large initials designed by Graily Hewitt

HEHL #132637 paper copy Z1 (of 8) p. 337 - The Sixte Book of Faerie Queene -
Z8 (of 8) p. 351 - The VI Book Ca. iij 33-42
Text with minor alterations is that ed. for
the Oxford Univ. Press by J.C. Smith + is based
on a collation of the Quartos of 1590 + 1596 +
the folio of 1609.
VI Booke - ends on p. 394