First Folio

THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER, CONTEYNING TWELVE AEGLOGUES PROPORTIONABLE TO THE TWELVE MONTHES.

Spenser, Edmund.

London: The Cresset Press, 1930.

Limited to 350 copies on hand-made paper, this no. 225 (total edition 353). Printed by Geroge W. Jones at "The Sign of the Dolphin" Folio. xxiii (i), 133p., colophon. Illustrated by John Nash with a full-page decorated title page and a large opening to each month. The illustrations were colored by stencil by the Curwen Press. Bound in gilt-titled vellum spine over silk covered boards, t.e.g., deckle edges. Minor soil to the covers, quite sound, the interior excellent. Item #21912

Price: $650.00