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SPENSER, E CRANE, Walter [ Illus ] The Shepheard's Calendar - First Edition 1898 CGS0304
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The Shepheard's Calendar, Twelve Aeglogues Proportionable to the Twelve Monethes.... By Edmund Spencer. Newly Adorned by Twelve Pictures and Other Devices by Walter Crane, London and New York, 1898.
DESCRIPTION: Square Octavo, pagination; xxiii [1], 118 [2] with double decorative title pages, twelve black and white plates and page decorations throughout by Walter Crane, decorative endpapers, bound in original sage green pictorial polychrome cloth with gilt, pages untrimmed. Decorated to the boards and spine by Walter Crane.
FURTHER COMMENTS:
First Edition of this elabarately designed version of Spenser, a superb example of arts and craft book decoration.
SIZE: 168 x 210mm
CONDITION: Spine is slightly dulled and faded with minor rubbing to joints at spine ends but otherwise a very good copy.