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ÉDITIONS du XIX
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3 d’Alfred Tennyson, in-f°, pleine percaline d’éd. sauf un.
Est.
:
200/ 250 €
POE, E.A.- The Raven. New York, Harper & Brothers. 1884 (rel. moderne, gardes re-
nouvelées).— TENNYSON, A.- Vivien. London, Moxon & Co, 1867.— IDEM.- Elaine. Id.,
1868 (pet. manques aux coiffes).— IDEM.- Enid. Id., 1868 (rel. passée, manques aux
coiffes, mors sup. part. fendu).
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Bruxelles, A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Cie, 1862.
10 parties en 5 vol. in-12° : 339, 371, 336, 302, 290, 282, 419, 388, 343, 330 pp.
Rel. de l’époque par J. de Harven-Beeckman à Anvers (étiq.) : demi-chagrin bordeaux, dos à nerfs (rel.
défraîchies, dos passés).
Est.
:
150/ 200 €
Édition parue chez le même éditeur et à la même date que l’originale mais avec une
collation différente.
# Talvart & Place, IX-39/40.
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SPENSER, Edmund.- Faerie queene [...]. In a series of designs by Walter
Crane. With the fragment Mutabilitie.
London, published by George Allen, Ruskin House, 1894 [- 1897].
6 vol. in-f° (text non collated, some rare foxing, ill. at p. 495 in vol. II bound upside down).
Publisher’s binding : full blue cloth, upper cover illustrated by Crane, gilt title, printer’s mark on the back cover,
gilt top edges (egdes and corners slightly dulled).
Est.
:
800/ 1.000 €
First print
of the engravings by
Walter Crane
on
double pages including the general title, 86 full-pages
with elaborate frames, many historiated borders and
tail-pieces, all in black. Complete of the 5 facsimile
(title pages of the editions of 1590, 1596, 1609 and
1611 and the woodcut «St George and the Dragon»)
and of the salmon wrappers of some issues (part I,
IV,VII, X, XIII, XVI). One of thousand copies printed on
handmade paper of this epic and allegorical poem, the
longest in English, written in «Spensarian stanza» and
the most elaborate work of Crane as book illustrator.
It celebrates the Tudors dynasty by making the con-
nexion between them and Arthur and recieved much
favors from Elizabeth I. The queen herself appears un-
der different allegories : Gloriana, Faerie queene and
Belphoebe. Printer’s mark at the end of the volumes
and press’ mark at the end of volume I and V.