The Shepheard's Calender: Twelve Aeglogues Proportionable to the Twelve Months

Author Edmund Spenser British

Illustrator Walter Crane British

Publisher Harper & Brothers American

1898

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Title: The Shepheard's Calender: Twelve Aeglogues Proportionable to the Twelve Months
Author: Edmund Spenser (British, London 1552?–1599 London)
Illustrator: Walter Crane (British, Liverpool 1845–1915 Horsham)
Publisher: Harper & Brothers (American, New York)
Published in: New York; London
Date: 1898
Medium: Illustrations: woodcut
Dimensions: 8 1/4 × 6 9/16 × 1 in. (20.9 × 16.7 × 2.5 cm)
Classification: Books
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1973
Object Number: 1973.572.1
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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