GOVERNOR OF THE BANK OF IRELAND’S COPY: The Works of Edmund Spenser with a Selection of Notes from various Commentators

A scarce copy of this 1845 edition of the Works of Edmund Spencer, the English poet best known for his epic poem The Faerie Queene which appears in this volume alongside a selection of notes from various commentators and a glossarial index with an account of the life of Spenser by the Rev. Henry John Todd.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

A robust volume in very good condition. Half calf over marbled boards. Lightly bumped and a little chipped to corners. Spine panel in 6 compartments, a little faded to edges but in very good condition. Tooled in still bright decorative gilt and lettered over red and black ground. Marbled endpapers and flyleaves clean and unmarked. Front pastedown displays the bookplate of previous owner, Robert Frederick Stewart Colvill, Coolock House, Co Dublin, 1898; J.P., Co. Dublin (High Sheriff, 1910); Director of the Bank of Ireland (Governor, 1916-18). Front flyleaf contains a handwritten contemporary signature of Caroline [Augusta] Fitzgerald dated June 1855, a possible previous owner. Text block in very good and sound condition, unmarked throughout. b/w full page frontispiece of Edmund Spencer engraved by H Robinson, protected by tissue guard in good condition, a little spotted to bottom of leaf but not compromising engraving itself. Illustrated title page depicts Kilcolman Castle by TH Shepherd, a little spotted to edges. Contains numerous works by Spenser including The Shepheards Calendar, The Ruines of Time and Virgils Gnat. 556 pp. plus glossarial index.