Spring 2024 Catalogue

LITERATURE 4 The Splendid Bradley Martin Copy Of One Of The Most Important Works In All Of English Literature: Extraordinarily Rare First Edition Of The Faerie Queene, 1590-96 LITERATURE 01SPENSER, Edmund. The Faerie Queene: Disposed into twelve books, Fashioning XII. Morall vertues. London, 1590, 1596. Two volumes. Small quarto, 19th-century full red crushed levant morocco gilt. $165,000 Extraordinarily scarce first editions of both parts of Spenser’s monumental Faerie Queene, “one of the greatest of all books of English poetry” (Rosenbach). The Bradley Martin copy, beautifully bound by Bedford.

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