Books and Manuscripts

Spenser, Edmund
Spenser's Minor Poems...
(London): The Ashendene Press, 1925. First and limited edition, one of 198 copies printed on paper (as called for in all bibliographies, although colophon states one of 200). Folio. iv. 216 pp. Text printed in black, red, and in blue. Publisher's brown calf over vellum-covered boards, lettered in gilt; all edges untrimmed; in quarter black niger lift-off slip case. Hornby 35; Franklin, The Private Presses, p. 196; Franklin, The Ashendene Press, pp. 240-241; Tomkinson, p. 8; Ransom, p. 206

The last of Ashendene's folio-sized publications, released as a companion to the Press's Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, printed two years prior.

An excellent copy.