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Lot 280
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Spenser, Edmund

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Description

  • Spenser, Edmund
  • Fowre hymnes, made by Edm. Spenser... London: [by Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, 1596.
  • paper, ink, leather
Two parts in one volume, Daphnadia with a separate dated title-page. 4to (190 x 135 mm). Modern morocco gilt, blind-stamped to a Grolieresque design, by Riviere-Mounteney, in full morocco slipcase.

Provenance

Harold Greenhill (bookplate); H. Bradley Martin (bookplate; Sotheby's New York, May 1, 1990, lot 3223).

Literature

STC 2308; Grolier 238; Pforzheimer, 974 

Catalogue Note

first edition of Foure Hymnes; the Bradley Martin copy.   There are only 3 copies recorded of  first edition of Daphnaida, 1591.