The Faerie Queene. A new edition, with notes critical and explanatory, by Ralph Church.

Beschreibung

New edition; 4 volumes, 8vo (22 x 14 cm); contemporary manuscript bookplates to pastedowns, touch of spotting; contemporary full tree calf, gilt motifs to spines in six compartments, with contrasting gilt red and black morocco labels, upper joint of vol. I starting to split, a very good set; lxix, 248, [48]; [2], 300, [1]; [2], 502, [1]; [2], 462, [19]pp. A lovely tree calf bound set of Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene, one of the longest poems in the English language. It follows Arthurian knights in the examination of 12 moral virtues and was a huge success in its time owing to Elizabeth I's political approval of its noble and virtuous teachings and its celebration of the Tudor dynasty.

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Titel

The Faerie Queene. A new edition, with notes critical and explanatory, by Ralph Church.

Verlag

London printed by William Faden

Erscheinungsjahr

1758

Einband

Hardcover

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