Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene Disposed into Twelue Bookes Fashioning XII. Morall Vertues.

2 cols. Printed in red and black. Large initials designed by Graily Hewitt and printed in red and blue. (5) leaves, 406, (1) pp., (3) leaves. Folio. Orig. half calf over wooden boards and 7 raised bands with gilt lettered spine, signed by W. H. Smith (outer joints rubbed, spine with spots). – (Chelsea), The Ashendene Press, 1922-23.

One of 180 copies on Batchelor hand-made paper besides 12 on vellum. Set in Subiaco type. – Ashendene Bibliography XXXII. – Heraldic ex-libris on first paste-down. Fine copy. – Best.-Nr. 10128