[Literature] Spenser, Edmund, and Walter Crane. Spenser's Faerie Queene A Poem in Six Books with the Fragment Mutabilitie

London: Published by George Allen and Ruskin House, 1896-97. In six volumes. Limited edition, one of 1,000 unnumbered sets. 4to. Edited by Thomas J. Wise. Profusely illustrated by Walter Crane with full-page woodcuts as well as head- and tail-pieces. Three-quarter green levant over marbled paper-covered boards, stamped in gilt, scattered light wear and scratching to boards; top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed; marbled endpapers; original wrappers bound in.

A handsome and near-fine set, beautifully illustrated by Walter Crane on hand-made paper.

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