SPENSER, EDMUND. The Works. 1679

SPENSER, EDMUND. The Works. [12], 339, [1], 16, [8], 1-2, 10-11, 9-258, [2], 369-86 (of 391) pages, including engraved frontispiece; lacks 4I6 (Catalogue of Edwin's Books) and 5C2-4 (last 3 leaves, with end of Latin Shepheards Calendar followed by 2-page glossary). Folio, old marbled boards, modern leather back and corners; blank lower inner corner excised from leaf after title, scattered minor stains, front pastedown and rear endpapers browned, front free endpaper lacking. Bookplates of Sir Thomas Cave of Stanford Hall, Leicester, and Edward Hugh and Julia Marlowe Sothern. London: Henry Hills for Jonathan Edwin, 1679