[SPENSER, Edmund; contributors: Ernest De Selincourt & James Cruikshank Smith]. The Poetical Works. Edited With Critical Notes by J. C. Smith and E. de Selincourt. With an Introduction by E. de Selincourt and a Glossary. Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press: London, New York, Toronto, Melbourne, Bombay, 1912.
Revised edition. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (190 x 130 mm.), pp. [lxvii], 736. English text in double column. Handsome contemporary tree calf by the Oxford bindery [signed in gilt to bottom of front pastedown]; five raised spine bands; compartments and bands ruled, lettered and fully decorated in gilt; red morocco lettering-piece in second compartment; gilt ruled border on boards and edges; upper board with gilt armorial crest of Church of England Girls Grammar School; turn-ins blind stamped; marbled page edges and endpapers; half-title; portrait frontispiece; title-page with printers device and head- and tail-border; initial and terminal blanks present; facsimile title-pages; illustrations in the text; head- and tail-pieces; appendices, glossary and index to rear. Contents: Intro., Biographical and Critical; The Faerie Queene, part I & II; Commendatory Verses; Dedicatory Sonnets; The Shepheardes Calender; Complaints; Daphnaida; Colin Clovts Come Home Againe; Astrophell; Amoretti and Epithalamion; Fowre Hymnes; Prothalamion; Appendix of Epigrams and Sonnets; Spenser-Harvey Correspondence; Critical Appendix; Glossary; Index of First Lines. Condition: NEAR FINE. Binding tight and secure, the hinges perfectly intact. Covers and contents remarkably fresh and clean, with minor brown spots to couple of leaves. Prize plate to front pastedown. An exquisite book.
