[SPENSER, EDMUND]. The Faerie Queene, Disposed into Twelve Bookes Fashioning XII Morall Vertues. To Which is Added His Epithalamion. Illustrated by Edward Corbould. London: George Routledge and Sons, n.d. [ca. 1850].
New edition. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Octavo (185 x 120 x 40 mm.). Pp. xii, 820. English text with a decorative red frame surround. Handsomely bound in contemporary full morocco. Spine gilt with five raised bands. Boards with gilt frames. Gilt inner dentelles. All page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. 6 illustrated plates including a frontispiece with tissue-guard by Edward Corbould. Glossary to rear in double columns. Includes a memoir of the author and the work Epithalamion (pp. 793-802). Condition: Binding tight and secure the hinges intact and covers nicely preserved. Contents largely very fresh and clean with faint foxing confined to endleaves. Small binders ticket to front pastedown partially removed. Without previous ownership markings. Very good +.
