Museum object · Books and Published Materials
The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser. With Memoir, Notes and Glossary.
1881-1886
Kittery, York County, Maine, United States, North and Central America
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A hardcover book titled, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser. With Memoir, Notes, and Glossary, by Edmund Spenser and published by Thomas Y. Crowell Company. It is a cloth bound hardcover book with a sewn binding. The book is green with black text and design elements. The shortened title, [SPENSER’S / POEMS], is embossed with black ink at the top third of the front cover, inside a black rectangular frame. The word [POEMS] is bookended with small rosettes. Above the title, and at the bottom of the front cover, are illustrated bands of black embossed and green relief heart-shaped knots with alternating elongated relief spades. In the bottom left quadrant of the front cover, is a black embossed illustration of a spiraled vine with terminates in a stylized lute. At the top and bottom of the spine, the shortened title, [SPENSER’S / POEMS], and the publisher’s information, [T.Y.
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Catalog reference: 2011.12.52.7
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