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Decorative Cloth. Condition: Good ++. Walter Crane (illustrator). First Edition. 1st Edition 1895. This is one of the finest editions of Spenser's masterpiece and "Crane's most important work in terms of quantity. a major achievement among Crane's later black and white work". Published in parts over a period of years. Edited by Thomas J. Wise; Book IV Part XI with four full-page and other illustrations by Walter Crane. Printed by Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press. 4 leaves of plates, and many in-text illustrations; Original reddish brown illustrated paper wrappers with overlapping edges. Book is good++ and bright. Over hanging edges rubbed and nicked with light loss. Contents good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18408.
Published by George Allen, London, 1895
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Large Octavo; pp 527; G; dark green spine with gilt text; raised bands to spine; no jacket; rebound; volume 2 only; leather binding to pink wrappers; samples of black and brown labels for leather spine at rear; panels show some wear to front and rear edges; decorative gilt border to panels; text block has top edge gilt; deckled edges, otherwise; exterior fore and tail edges age toned; green silk endpapers; gilt scroll design to pastedown edges; interior page edges mildly toned; Illustrated; NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, ND-HV Column. 1327786. FP New Rockville Stock.
Published by George Allen, London, Eng, 1895
Seller: Classic Books and Ephemera, IOBA, Lansdowne, PA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Crane, Walter (illustrator). Edited by Thomas J. Wise; Part VI with eight full-page and other illustrations by Walter Crane. Printed by Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press on handmade "Unbleached Arnold" paper. [4], 421-527, [5], vii-viii p.: added engraved title page, 7 additional leaves of plates, and many in-text illustrations; 28 cm. Original reddish brown illustrated wrappers with overlapping edges. Final 3 leaves contain half title page, added engraved title page, and table of contents for Book II, all presumably meant to be bound in front of Book II when the parts were taken to a binder. Pages are unopened. In Very Good Condition: wrapper edges are chipped with slight loss of paper at ends of spine and along lower edges and fore-edges; front section of wrapper is detached and back section is largely detached; wrapper is foxed; first and last two leaves foxed; very occasional foxed elsewhere; pages and plates are otherwise clean and bright. Very scarce in the original wrappers.
Published by George Allen, London, Eng, 1896
Seller: Classic Books and Ephemera, IOBA, Lansdowne, PA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Crane, Walter (illustrator). Edited by Thomas J. Wise; Part VIII with four full-page and other illustrations by Walter Crane. Printed by Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press on handmade "Unbleached Arnold" paper. [4], 1045-1119, [1] p.: 4 leaves of plates, and many in-text illustrations; 28 cm. (11 inches). Original reddish brown illustrated wrappers with overlapping edges. Pages are unopened. In Very Good Condition: wrapper edges are chipped; paper lacking over spine; front and back sections of wrapper are detached; upper edges of last 6 leaves lightly stained, not touching text; pages and plates are otherwise clean and bright. Very scarce in the original wrappers.
Published by George Allen, London, 1896
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
(Book IV. Cantos IX.-XII.) Edited by Thomas J. Wise. Part XII [only, of 19]. With five full-page and other illustrations by Walter Crane. Pp. [viii]+975-1044+[8](title pages and list of illustrations), pictorial title page and 4 full page illustrations, head & tailpieces, decorative initials; demy 4to; pictorial pale pink paper wrappers, slightly soiled, the edges and backstrip quite brittle and split, with a few small chips; uncut and partly unopened; text block faintly browned, a couple of spots of foxing; George Allen, London, 1896. One of 1,000 copies thus. Masse, pp. 47-8; Todd 276a. *Six volumes issued in 19 parts, from 1894-97, printed by Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press. According to Masse, 28 copies were also printed on Japanese vellum paper, of which only 25 were for sale. In Various Extraordinary Books, [p. 3], Todd describes this, perhaps unkindly, as 'Wise's most pretentious edition'.
Published by Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 2008
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Full Leather. Condition: Fine. Three volume set. 28.5 x 22 cm. Quarto. Bound into full red leather with gilt design, lettering, and foredges. 3 raised bands to spine. The interior is a facsimile of the George Allen 1897 edition, edited by Thomas J. Wise and illustrated by Walter Crane. Moire endpapers and ribbon.
Published by Easton Press, 2008
Seller: Fine Binding Books, Barker, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Full-Leather. Condition: Near Fine. Walter Crane (illustrator). Edited by Thomas J Wise. Matching red leather bindings, distinct cover designs with decorations. Pictured by Walter Crane. Bound in premium full leathers, hubbed spine, distinctive cover design, beautiful illustrations, permanent satin ribbon page marker, gilded page edges, moire endsheets, thread-sewn pages for durability and strength. List of titles: THE FAERIE QUEENE: Volume I~ III.
Published by London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1897, 1897
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First Fairfax-Muckley edition, one of 1,250 copies printed on ordinary paper, in addition to 100 on handmade paper, this copy bound in an arts and crafts manner by William Jessop Mansell. The edition was intended as a stylistic companion to Dent's edition of Le Morte d'Arthur (1894-95), illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, and as a competitor to the George Allen edition of The Faerie Queene, illustrated by Walter Crane and published the same year. Fairfax-Muckley (1862-1926) was an influential leader of the arts and crafts "Birmingham School", having studied painting and drawing at the Birmingham School of Art in the early 1880s. A 1901 profile by the Society of Designers declares that he "has always had a strong bent towards the straightforward methods of the early painters. as witness the beautiful designs for his well-known edition of the 'Faerie Queene,' which fully express his natural admiration of the early Italian work" (p. 171). Dent commissioned Beardsley and Fairfax-Muckley to illustrate his deluxe arts and crafts publications in an effort to emulate the success of the Kelmscott Press. Society of Designers, 'A Designer of the Birmingham School', The Artist: An Illustrated Monthly Record of Arts, Crafts and Industries, 1901. Quarto (236 x 186 mm). Contemporary half vellum by W. J. Mansell of London, blue morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, spine richly tooled, blue cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, pp. 2-4 and 13-14 of volume 1 reprinted and inserted at rear. Woodcut frontispieces and title pages, 25 woodcut illustrations, 11 bifolia and several with tissue-guards, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, ornaments, and borders throughout. Binding square and firm, vellum somewhat marked and soiled, contents toned, faint foxing to endmatter. A very good copy.
Published by The Folio Society, 2011
Seller: Allsop Antiquarian Booksellers PBFA, Warwick, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. No. 592 of a limited edn. of 1000 copies. 3 vols. Illus. with b.w. reproductions. Each vol. 4to. bound in Nigerian goatskin blocked with a design based on Walter Crane's original, t.e.g. Housed in single wooden slip-case as issued. A very slight mark to the rear bd. of the first vol., else a v.g. set. (Heavy item, will require extra postage).
Published by The Folio Society 2011, London, 1897
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Gilt Decorated Leather. Condition: Near Fine. Crane, Walter (illustrator). Limited Edition. Limited Facsimile Edition. 3 volumes. Full white Nigerian goatskin with elaborate gilt-stamped decoration and lettering to boards and spines based on Walter Crane's original design, within a maroon silk covered wooden slipcase; top edges gilt. Very minor spots to the fore-edges; otherwise all in fine condition, clean and bright, including the heavy slipcase. A beautiful facsimile edition with Walter Crane's incredible black & white illustrations throughout. Numbered 588 of 1000 limited edition copies published by The Folio Society from the originally published George Allen editions printed at The Chiswick Press, 1894-7. This is a very heavy set and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. 4to. Limited Edition.
Published by Folio Society, 2011
Seller: Nikki Green Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Walter Crane (illustrator). Limited Edition. *Limited Edition* Complete 3 volume set housed in wooden slipcase. Large 4tos, Vol I: xxi + pp328, Vol II: viii+ pp529 -pp1044, Vol III: viii + pp1045- pp11546, profusely illustrated throughout all 3 volumes by Walter Crane. Limited edition of 1000 numbered copies for sale and 25 lettered copies , which are not, this is copy number 513. Wooden slipcase covered in Tsarina Crush silk, with a sliding tray in the base for ease of use, in very good condition with a few nicks and minimal rubbing on some corners. All 3 vols bound in Wassa goatskin with beautiful gilt decorations to spine and front boards in near fine condition. Inside all pages with top edge gilt in near fine condition.Also included is a small pamphlet by Alan Stewart for the Folio Society A beautiful copy of this scarce magnificent edition. Extremely heavy set will require addition postage.
Published by London, The Folio Society, 2011 Limited Numbered Edition 114/1000., 2011
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
The gorgeous facsimiles are bound in 3 volumes : Each volume is bound in stunning white Nigerian goat skin blocked with a gilt design on cover and spine that is seductively sensuous to the touch. The volumes are housed on a sliding tray in a maroon toile vendome silk covered wooden case (31.8x23.6x20.6cm.), that is lined with maroon cloth. All three volumes are identically bound and gilt embossed except for the book number on the spine. Presented in a wooden slipcase covered in Tsarina Crush, with a sliding tray in the base for ease of use* In very good near fine condition. Near fine slipcase. Pages all clean and tight. An excellent limited edition copy. Books I & II 528 pages, books III & IV 516 pages, books V & VI 507 pages. It is printed on thick watermarked laid paper with gilt top page edges and white ribbon markers. Profusely illustrated with 88 large illustrations and 135 illustrative head and tailpieces by Walter Crane. 1,712 pages in total he sixteenth century was the golden age of English poetry. Edmund Spenser burned to create an English equivalent to Virgil?s Aeneid. Instead of lauding the Caesars, he would glorify Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen. Where Virgil connected Rome to the heroic past of Troy, Spenser would forge a link between Tudor England and the mythological age of King Arthur. The result was The Faerie Queene, a rich allegory which elevated Protestant virtues through the medium of a romantic, chivalric epic. Today the power of Spenser?s story and the beauty of his verse still live in ?famous memory?.
Published by George Allen, Ruskin House, London, 1897
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB, Salisbury, CT, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. First edition, 6 uniform volumes, gte, sides uncut. All parts, including pictorial, pink covers, bound in decorative binding of cream cloth with pictorial inset stamped in gold and titles in red to each volume. Lacking the publisher's slipcase. Spines were tanned, internals about as nice as we would expect to find, with all covers extant and bound-in.
Published by Folio Society Ltd., London, 2011
Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada
First Edition
Full Leather. Condition: Near Fine. Walter Crane (illustrator). First Folio Edition. Three (3) volumes in white Nigerian Goatskin lavishly decoated in gilt. Top edge gilt. White ribbon marker in each volume. Housed in silk covered wooden slipcase. Limited Edition of 1000 copies of which this is #563. This is a facsimile edition of the original edition, one of the great illustrated books, published in 1897 with Walter Crane's wonderful images. 6 books bound in three.1546 pages. Books in fine condition excepting a small scuff to top edge of Vol 1 barely visible. Box has some wear. Large Item will need extra freight. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Book.
Published by The Folio Society, London, 2011
Seller: Rosemarie Spannbauer, Neureichenau, Germany
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Wie neu. Limited Edition: The Edition consists of One Thousand numbered copies for sale to members of the Folio Society and 25 lettered copies which are not for sale. This is Copy Number 167. With Illustrations by Walter Crane. 3-bändiges Faksimile, in weißem Ziegenleder wunderschön gestaltet, Goldprägung auf Buchdeckel und Buchrücken, in kastanienfarbiger Holzbox, bezogen mit schimmernden Seidenstoff; Goldschnitt oben, Dieses Werk wiegt 9 kg und die Versandkosten weichen daher vom Standardporto ab. Der Käufer wird über den voraussichtlichen Versandpreis informiert.
Published by George Allen, London, 1897
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. The celebrated Walter Crane edition, limited to 1,000 sets printed on handmade paper. Crane's illustrations for The Faerie Queene were the most ambitious of his career. Overall, they took him three years to complete, and in the end he had finished 88 large illustrations and 135 illustrative head and tailpieces. The Faerie Queene was an appropriate poem to be illustrated by Crane, who preferred engraving in thick black lines and working in woodblock prints as Medieval craftsmen, such as Albrecht Durer, would have done. Edited by Thomas J. Wise. Quarto, six volumes. In three-quarter black morocco over marbled paper bindings, with decorative gilt stamping, five raised bands, marbled endpapers, and a ribbon marker. The armorial bookplate of Arthur G. Soames, the father-in-law of Mary Soames, Winston Churchill's youngest daughter, appears on each front pastedown. A few tiny nicks along the extremities; otherwise very good.
Published by George Allen, London, 1897
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
3/4 Leather. Condition: Very Good. Limited edition. 6 volume set. 28.5 x 22 cm. Quarto. lxxxvii 1546 pp Bound into 3/4 brown leather over green marble boards and endpapers. 5 raised bands to spines. Illustrated with oveer 200 woodcut illustrations as well as head and tail pieces and decorated initials by Walter Crane. Limited to 1000 copies printed on handmade paper. TEG. Sun toning to spines. A bit of rubbing to edges. Previous owner's bookplate (Deatherage) on front fixed endpaper of each volume. Some scuffing to the spines. Crane's best work.
Published by George Allen, London, 1897
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Six volumes. 4tos; lxxxvii, 1-248 [18], viii, 251-527 [13], viii, 529-805 [13], viii, 807-1044 [12], viii, 1045-1274 [16], viii, 1277-1546 [24]; full polished tree calf gilt with exquisitely tooled spines with red and tan leather labels, marbled endpapers; t.e.g. One of 1000 unnumbered copies on handmade paper printed by Charles Whittingham & Co. at the Chiswick Press, this copy has been beautifully bound in the Riviere style by H.S. Nichols. One of the high-water marks of Art & Crafts book design, this was Walter Crane's last major commission and one of his most fully executed and highly prized publications, featuring 88 full-page illustrations, along with head and tailpieces, devices, and initials throughout. The set was issued in parts between 1894 and 1897 and the original title pages and publisher's devices are bound in at the rear of each volume of this set. [n.b. this is a heavy multi-volume set and will require additional shipping charges]. Rear cover of the final volume detached, hinges tender; some surface scratches; spines faded a shade. A very handsome set.
Published by George Allen 1897 (parts 1894-1897), London, 1897
Seller: White Fox Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Near Fine. First edition. One of 1,000 unnumbered sets printed. 4to. 27.5 by 22 cm. 19 parts bound in 6 volumes. Pictorial pink wrappers bound in. Plates, headpieces and tailpieces by Crane. Gilt rose and leaf pattern in four spine compartments, lettering in two. Three Quarters Crushed Morocco. Marbled pastedown.
Published by George Allen, London, 1895
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: fine. Crane, Walter (illustrator). Bold illustrations by Walter Crane. Originally issued in 19 parts, Seven title pages, eighty-eight full page woodcut illustrations, one double page, 132 head and tailpieces and numerous woodcut initials. Now exquisitely rebound in 3/4 crimson crushed morocco, 6 volumes, small 4to, marbled endpapers. London: George Allen, 1895-97. A fine set. Limited first book-form edition of Walter Crane's "most ambitious project of book illustration" (Lacy, 103), one of 1000 large-paper copies.
Published by London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1897, 1897
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First Fairfax-Muckley edition, one of 100 large-paper copies on handmade paper, in a bright example of the original cloth. The edition was intended as a stylistic companion to Dent's edition of Le Morte d'Arthur (1894-95), illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, and as a competitor to the George Allen edition of The Faerie Queene, illustrated by Walter Crane and published the same year. Fairfax-Muckley (1862-1926) was an influential leader of the arts and crafts "Birmingham School", having studied painting and drawing at the Birmingham School of Art in the early 1880s. A 1901 profile by the Society of Designers declares that he "has always had a strong bent towards the straightforward methods of the early painters. as witness the beautiful designs for his well-known edition of the 'Faerie Queene,' which fully express his natural admiration of the early Italian work" (p. 171). Dent commissioned Beardsley and Fairfax-Muckley to illustrate his deluxe arts and crafts publications in an effort to emulate the success of the Kelmscott Press. This edition also comprised a further 1,200 copies on ordinary paper. Society of Designers, 'A Designer of the Birmingham School', The Artist: An Illustrated Monthly Record of Arts, Crafts and Industries, 1901. Three volumes, large octavo. Original red cloth over bevelled boards, covers lettered and decorated in gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, largely unopened, red silk bookmarkers. Woodcut frontispieces and title pages, 22 woodcut illustrations (several double-page), woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Extremities rubbed, bookmarkers detached and loosely inserted in vols. I and III, lacking in vol. II, sporadic and mainly marginal faint toning to contents, occasional marks, but generally bright and clean. A very good set.
Publication Date: 1897
Seller: Bauman Rare Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. (CRANE, Walter, illustrator) SPENSER, Edmund. Spenser's Faerie Queene. London: George Allen (Chiswick Press), 1897. Six volumes. Quarto, contemporary three-quarter vellum gilt, brown morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut; original wrappers bound in at rear of each volume. $5200.Limited first book-form edition of Walter Crane's "most ambitious project of book illustration" (Lacy, 103), one of 1000 large-paper copies, with 88 splendid full-page pen-and-ink line-cuts (two double-page), 135 illustrative head- and tailpieces by Crane, and six facsimile title pages from earlier editions. Handsomely bound by J. Adams of Manchester."The noblest allegorical poem in our language indeed the noblest allegorical poem in the world" (James Montgomery). Originally published in the late 16th century (the first three books in 1590 and the next three in 1596, with the "Mutabilitie Cantos" added in 1609), Spenser's ambitious Arthurian allegory was the first epic that "both incorporated countless mythological and folkloric traditions and exemplified the careful design and poetic quality of written literature" (Clute & Grant, 890). Finely printed on handmade paper, the Chiswick Press edition, with notes and commentary by Thomas Wise, was originally issued in 19 parts (1894-96) and stands at the pinnacle of famous illustrator Walter Crane's career. All front wrappers and rear wrappers bound in. Massé, 47. A splendid set of this delightful illustrated edition in fine condition.
Published by London: George Allen, 1894-1897, 1897
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition, limited to 1,000 copies on handmade paper (with a further 27 on japon), a remarkably fresh set in the original unrestored wrappers of this grand production, one of Crane's most distinguished works of illustration. Crane's designs encompass both an Art Nouveau and an Arts & Crafts aesthetic - he had, of course, worked with Morris at the Kelmscott Press - and this edition of Spenser's epic was issued at the height of his fame: he had an exhibition of his work touring Europe "and he was delighted to find that German collectors and museums bought his allegorical paintings, which chimed with German symbolist work" (ODNB). It was one of his last substantial commissions. The printing was executed for the publisher by the distinguished Chiswick Press. The editor of the text was the then-esteemed collector and bibliographer Thomas James Wise, later unveiled as a book forger. 19 parts, quarto. Original pink wrappers with design by Crane. Housed in two large red cloth clamshell cases by Zaehnsdorf. With full-page illustrations by Crane throughout. Slight wear around extremities but overall a lovely set, without fading or restoration, contents clean and partly unopened.
Published by London: George Allen, 1894-97, 1894
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First Crane edition, deluxe issue, number 17 of 28 copies printed on japon, of which 25 only were for sale. This is one of the finest editions of Spenser's masterpiece and "Crane's most important work in terms of quantity. a major achievement among Crane's later black and white work" (Spencer, p. 135). This was one of Crane's last commissions, appearing towards the end of his career when his fame as a book illustrator was well established. In his treatise Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New (1896), he explained the approach he adopted to illustrate The Faerie Queene: "The full page designs are all treated as panels of figure design, or pictures and are enclosed in fanciful borders, in which subsidiary incidents of characters of the poem are introduced or suggested, somewhat on the plan of mediaeval tapestries" (p. 222); he also pointed out that the designs expressed "my own feeling - and designing must always finally be a question of individual feeling" (p. 217). Spenser's text was edited by the bibliographer and collector Thomas James Wise (1859-1939). "The Allen edition combined work by a noted bibliophile and a skilled artist. While Wise subsequently became notorious as a thief and forger, Crane's reputation steadily increased, not simply for his artistic work but for a role in establishing the Socialist League with William Morris and fostering decorative arts in Britain. Crane served as Master of the Art-Workers Guild, twice President of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, and in 1898 Principal of the Royal College of Art" (Richmond, p. 25). Loosely inserted in the final volume is a publisher's slip thanking Waterlow & Sons for printing the illustrations from part VI to the end. Houfe, p. 271. Walter Crane, Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New, 1896; Velma Bourgeois Richmond, The Fairie Queene as Children's Literature. Victorian and Edwardian Retellings in Words and Pictures, 2016; Isobel Spencer, Walter Crane, 1975. 19 parts, quarto. Original pictorial wrappers printed in black. Housed in seven black cloth solander boxes, spines and front covers lettered in gilt. Frontispieces, 88 plates (one double-page), half-title, title pages, and numerous in-text illustrations by Crane; 6 facsimile reproductions of the title pages and woodcuts of the early editions. Wrappers bright, some neatly reattached, a little creasing to edges, else a sharp, fresh set.