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The faerie queene : disposed into twelue bookes, fashioning XII morall vertues   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599
Field, Richard, -1624, printer
Ponsonby, William, 1546?-1604, bookseller
Vickery, Willis, 1857-1932, former owner
Collier, Robert J. (Robert Joseph), 1876-1918, former owner
Sutherland, George Granville Leveson-Gower, Duke of, 1758-1833, former owner
White, William Augustus, 1843-1927, former owner
Bedford, Francis, 1799-1883, binder
Title
The faerie queene : disposed into twelue bookes, fashioning XII morall vertues
Publisher
London : Printed [by Richard Field] for VVilliam Ponsonbie
Description
Dedication (A1v) identifies Edmund Spenser as the author
The second edition of books 1-3; first edition of books 4-6
Stationers' register: part 2 entered 20 January [1596]
Signatures: A-2Óı; ℗øA-2Íı ℗ø2Ḱþ
Woodcut tailpieces; decorated and historiated initials. Printer's device of Richard Field on title page. Full page woodcut of St. George and the dragon on p. [184]. The caption at head of each canto in a compartment with borders of type ornaments
Book 4-6 has separate title page: The second part of the Faerie queene : containing the fourth, fifth, and sixth bookes / by Ed. Spenser. Imprinted at London : for William Ponsonby, 1596
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library
English short title catalogue
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.)
Johnson, F.R. Critical bibliography of the works of Edmund Spenser printed before 1700
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy cataloged under call no. G.385.29 bound in early mottled calfskin double-panelled in blind with the gilt armorial super-ex-libris of George Granville Leveson-Gower on the upper cover. The bookplates of Leveson-Gower and Willis Vickery are present on the front pastedown. Also present on the front pastedown is an ink inscription that reads, "The first edition [of the?] Faerie Queen." The bookplate of Robert J. Collier is present on the front flyleaf recto
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy cataloged under call no. G.385.28 v.2 bound by Francis Bedford in green morocco panelled in double-ruled gilt. The bookplate of Ray Slater Murphy is present on the front pastedown. The autograph of W.A. White (William Augustus?), dated 21 May, [18]88 is present on the front flyleaf recto. This copy contains books 4-6 only

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Language English
Publication date 1596
publication_date QS:P577,+1596-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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IA Collections: bplsctpbs; bostonpubliclibrary; americana
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faeriequeenedisp00spen_0
Notes No copyright page found.irregular pagination. numbers skip
Authority file  OCLC: 403873444
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Internet Archive identifier: faeriequeenedisp00spen_0
https://archive.org/download/faeriequeenedisp00spen_0/faeriequeenedisp00spen_0.pdf
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  • IA digitizing sponsor: Associates of the Boston Public Library

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