The faerie queene :
Disposed into twelue bookes, fashioning XII. morall vertues.

Description

Main Author

Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.

Related Names

Ponsonby, William, 1546?-1604, publisher.
Wolfe, John, d. 1601, printer.

Language(s)

English

Published

London : Printed [by Richard Field] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, 1596.

Note

Baldwin 2923g: Autograph on rear flyleaf recto: "Josiah Prott".
Baldwin 2923g: Fols. Hh6-Kk4 mutilated; text loss on multiple leaves.
Baldwin 2923e and Baldwin 2923g: Imperfect; all of part 1, t.p. for part 2 and fols. B4 and B5 lacking in both copies; Baldwin 2923e also lacks fol. Dd6.
IUA11686 v.2: inscriptions in ink on t.p. (some illegible); "J Joh"; "fs man ..."; "d.g.".
IUA11685 v.2: red wax seal inside front cover.
IUA11685 v.2: in ink at imprint date on t.p.: "1813 ; 217".
IUA11685 v.1: inscription in ink on final page (illegible).
IUA11685 v.1: inscriptions in ink on t.p.; "Ex Dono Anthony. May. Armigerj Farra 1628"; "Solub un ..."; "From Glister pipes and doctors whistles".
Printer's mark on title pages ("An cho ra spei"); head-, tail-pieces; initials.
Signatures: A-2O A-2I 2K.
This edition omits the sonnets at the end of the 1590 edition.
"The second part of The faerie queene" has separate dated title page, pagination, and register.
Printer's name from STC.
In verse.

Physical Description

[2], 590, 518 p. : ill. (woodcut) ; 20 cm. (4to)

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