Books

21 lbs Inventory Box; Drawings; quarto; Folio Society. Poem in six books; with the Fragment Mutabilitie, edited by Thomas J. Wise, pictured by Walter Crane, 3 volumes, facsimile edition, 2011, reproduced from the 1897 George Allen edition, numerous black & white illustrations, many full-page, top edge gilt, original cream morocco [goatskin], gilt-stamped pictorial designs to front covers and spines, contained together in original cloth-covered slipcase, 4to. Bslipcase is covered in a sating cloth which chages colors according to the angle of the light. Books rest on a sliding panel with a pull out ribbon at their bottom. Case is as new with cloth crackling by design. Appearance is as new except for minor wear to sllp case back edge. 406/1000.

The Faerie Queene is a celebrated epic poem by Edmund Spenser, first published in 1590. The poem is an allegory praising Queen Elizabeth I and reflecting the values and ideologies of Elizabethan England. It is one of the longest poems in the English language and is renowned for its richly imaginative narrative and moral allegory.