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SPENSER, Edmund. –– FAIRFAX–MUCKLEY, Louis (1862–1926), illustrator. The Faerie Queene. London: J. M. Dent, 1897. 3 volumes, 4to (267 x 203 mm). Half–titles, titles printed in red and black with woodcut borders, 26 woodcut illustrations (several double–page), decorative headpieces, initials, and tailpieces by Fairfax–Muckley (a bit of offsetting to text from illustrations). Half crimson morocco, 5 raised bands, gilt titling in 2 compartments with gilt blossoms, leafy sprigs and stippling in remainder, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers, stamped by W. T. Morrell. Original upper printed wrappers bound in. ONE OF 100 COPIES on handmade paper of this English epic poem that was first published in 1590. From the private library of a prominent Chicago collector, part II.