The faerie queene :
disposed into XII bookes, fashioning twelue morall vertues.
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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At London : Printed by H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes, 1609.
- Note
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Scattered marginalia.
Inscriptions and/or scribbles, mostly illegible, throughout title pageand portions of A2r.
Bookseller's bibliographic description pasted on the inside of the front board.
Armorial bookplate "Nicholas English" on the inside of the front board; bookplate "Nell Rose Wheeler, Charles Van Cise Wheeler" on the recto of the front fly-leaf.
Title-leaf torn; text affected.
Printer's device on title pages (McKerrow 335); second printer's device on 2I3v, above colophon (McKerrow 211); head-pieces; tail-pieces; initials; portions of text within illustrated, ornamental borders.
First word of title ("The") is xylographic.
Signatures: A-Y 2A-2H 2I (2I4 blank).
"Two cantos of mutabilitie" (pages 353-363) has running title: "The seventh booke of the Faerie queene".
"Second part of The faerie queene : containing the fourth, fift, & sixt booke" has its own separate title page (Q5r); pagination and register are continuous.
Author attribution and printer's name from ESTC.
- Physical Description
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[2], 363, [3] p. ;
29 cm. (fol.)
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