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1900 Rare Book - Stories from the Faerie Queene Illustrated by A. G. Walker
1900 Rare Book - Stories from the Faerie Queene Illustrated by A. G. Walker
1900 Rare Book - Stories from the Faerie Queene Illustrated by A. G. Walker
1900 Rare Book - Stories from the Faerie Queene Illustrated by A. G. Walker
1900 Rare Book - Stories from the Faerie Queene Illustrated by A. G. Walker
1900 Rare Book - Stories from the Faerie Queene Illustrated by A. G. Walker
1900 Rare Book - Stories from the Faerie Queene Illustrated by A. G. Walker
1900 Rare Book - Stories from the Faerie Queene Illustrated by A. G. Walker
1900 Rare Book - Stories from the Faerie Queene Illustrated by A. G. Walker
1900 Rare Book - Stories from the Faerie Queene Illustrated by A. G. Walker
1900 Rare Book - Stories from the Faerie Queene Illustrated by A. G. Walker
1900 Rare Book - Stories from the Faerie Queene Illustrated by A. G. Walker
1900 Rare Book - Stories from the Faerie Queene Illustrated by A. G. Walker
1900 Rare Book - Stories from the Faerie Queene Illustrated by A. G. Walker
1900 Rare Book - Stories from the Faerie Queene Illustrated by A. G. Walker
1900 Rare Book - Stories from the Faerie Queene Illustrated by A. G. Walker
1900 Rare Book - Stories from the Faerie Queene Illustrated by A. G. Walker
1900 Rare Book - Stories from the Faerie Queene Illustrated by A. G. Walker
1900 Rare Book - Stories from the Faerie Queene Illustrated by A. G. Walker
1900 Rare Book - Stories from the Faerie Queene Illustrated by A. G. Walker
1900 Rare Book - Stories from the Faerie Queene Illustrated by A. G. Walker
1900 Rare Book - Stories from the Faerie Queene Illustrated by A. G. Walker
1900 Rare Book - Stories from the Faerie Queene Illustrated by A. G. Walker
1900 Rare Book - Stories from the Faerie Queene Illustrated by A. G. Walker
1900 Rare Book - Stories from the Faerie Queene Illustrated by A. G. Walker
1900 Rare Book - Stories from the Faerie Queene Illustrated by A. G. Walker
1900 Rare Book - Stories from the Faerie Queene Illustrated by A. G. Walker
1900 Rare Book - Stories from the Faerie Queene Illustrated by A. G. Walker
1900 Rare Book - Stories from the Faerie Queene Illustrated by A. G. Walker
1900 Rare Book - Stories from the Faerie Queene Illustrated by A. G. Walker
1900 Rare Book - Stories from the Faerie Queene Illustrated by A. G. Walker
1900 Rare Book - Stories from the Faerie Queene Illustrated by A. G. Walker
1900 Rare Book - Stories from the Faerie Queene Illustrated by A. G. Walker

1900 Rare Book - Stories from the Faerie Queene Illustrated by A. G. Walker

$180 USD - $180 USD
$180 USD
$180 USD - $180 USD
$180 USD

Author: Mary MacLeod. With an introduction by John W. Hales. Drawings by A. G. Walker, Sculptor.
Title: Stories from the Faerie Queene.
Publisher: London, Gardner, Darton & Co., Paternoster Buildings, 1900. Second Edition, stated.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 8.5 x 6.5 inches.
Pages: xxvii, 394 pages, followed by the publisher’s catalogue.
Binding: Very good original publisher’s tan pictorial cloth binding, decorated in black and gilt to the front cover and spine. Light wear to spine ends, edges, and corners, with minor rubbing and light soiling to the cloth, as shown. Hinges fine, binding sound and attractive. Upper edge gilt. Protected in a removable mylar cover. 
Content: Good to very good condition. Scattered foxing and staining throughout, as shown. Margin tear on page 90 neatly repaired by a previous owner, and upper corner of page 92 cut off without affecting the text or illustration. A solid and complete copy overall.
Illustrations: Complete with numerous black and white illustrations by A. G. Walker, including a frontispiece and many full-page and in-text illustrations, beautifully accompanying the retold episodes from Spenser’s great poem.

Estimate: (USD 200 – 250)

The book: Stories from the Faerie Queene is Mary MacLeod’s accessible retelling of episodes from Edmund Spenser’s great Elizabethan romance, The Faerie Queene. First published in 1897, this stated second edition of 1900 was designed to introduce younger readers and general audiences to one of the most celebrated works of English literature, transforming Spenser’s complex allegorical poem into clear prose narratives.

The volume includes the adventures of the Red Cross Knight, Una, Sir Guyon, Sir Artegall, and other figures from Spenser’s world of chivalry, enchantment, temptation, virtue, and moral trial. With John W. Hales’s introduction and A. G. Walker’s dramatic illustrations, the book has a strong late-Victorian gift-book character, combining literary adaptation, medieval romance, and decorative book design.

The author: Mary MacLeod was a late nineteenth-century writer and adaptor best known for retelling classic literary works for younger readers. In Stories from the Faerie Queene, she preserves the romance, allegory, and moral atmosphere of Spenser’s poem while making its language and structure more approachable for a new generation.

The illustrator: A. G. Walker, identified on the title page as “Sculptor,” was Arthur George Walker, a British artist and sculptor active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His illustrations for this volume bring a strong sense of movement, drama, and medieval atmosphere to the retold stories, especially in scenes of knights, dragons, queens, magicians, and allegorical figures.