The faerie queene.
Edmund Spenser (c.1552-1599)
Category
Books
Date
1751
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3026168.3
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.3.,plates . 4to. Accession no. 3770.3. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: faint pencil signature on titlepage to v.1. Sam C. Brown. Binding: English eighteenth-century gold-tooled straight grain green morocco binding, about 1810 (endleaves watermarked 1807); palmette border, gold-tooled spine, spine lettered directly and with imprint and date at foot, design with stippled background. Green, brown and white headbands, green silk marker, edges gilt, brown endleaves, leather hinge.
Makers and roles
Edmund Spenser (c.1552-1599) William Kent (Bridlington 1685 - London 1748)