2-637-359 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Illustration for the Faerie Queene', c1890, (1897). 'The jolly Satyrs, full of fresh delight, Came dauncing forth, and with them nimbly ledd Faire Hellenore, with girlonds all bespredd, Whom their May-lady they had newly made'. Book III, Canto X. An illustration for The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser (c1552-1599), an epic poem published across six books, first published in 1596. From The Studio Volume 9. [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1897]