Spenser (Edmund) The Faerie Queene, Disposed into XII. Bookes, H.L. for Mathew Lownes, 1609.

Spenser (Edmund) The Faerie Queene, Disposed into XII. Bookes, large woodcut device to title, Q5 divisional title and colophon, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, woodcut cartouches to head of each canto, lacking final blank, title heavily restored with extensive but mainly marginal losses expertly repaired (touches of pen facsimile), G2, V2 & 2C4 small rust-hole affecting couple letters (G2 just into cartouche to verso), H4 portion of abrasion/repairs with loss to some words, I1 paper-flaw to fore-edge affecting few letters, 2F6 small hole with loss to few words, a few other minor marginal defects, some light browning, some spotting and soiling, occasional light marginal damp-staining, final 2ff. little frayed at fore-edge and lightly creased, contemporary calf, covers with central gilt-tooled lozenge, spine gilt and with raised bands, binder's waste endpapers, some wear to corners, rubbed, [Pforzheimer 971; STC 23083], folio, H.L. for Mathew Lownes, 1609.*** The first folio edition of Spenser's epic poem, also the first to include the two cantos of Mutabilitie.