| Title: | The faerie queene : disposed into XII. bookes, fashioning twelue morall vertues
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| Repository: | Henry E. Huntington Library
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| Shelfmark: | 601564
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| Published by: | H[umphrey]. L[ownes]
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| Published for: | Matthew Lownes
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| Published Location: | London
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| Published date: | 1611
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| Copynotes: | Wanting t.p. (A1) for part 1, t.p. for part 2 (R1); leaves Q5,6; title pages supplied in photostat from Clark
Library copy; photostats removed to PF in Rare Book Stacks
Bound in full leather (morocco?) with stamped geometric design, bevelled edges; previously rebacked; marbled end papers
Binder's title: The faerie queene. Spenser
Library has copy of the 1609 edition of "The faerie queene" (STC 23803): HEH 69581; library also has copies of the 2nd printing of parts 1 and 2 (issued with his other works), (STC 23084): HEH 69561; 601563 (Part 1 is a mixed copy with sheets of the 1609 printing)
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| Editionnotes: | In two parts, the first covering Books 1-3, the second Books 4-6
Second part also contains "Two cantos of mutabilitie" with running title: The seventh booke of the faerie queene: p. 353-363
Signatures: A-P⁶ Q⁴ R-2H⁶
Text in double columns
P.8, 32 misnumbered 10, 23
Printer's name from STC
This edition was usually issued in combination with printings of Spenser's other works to make-up a folio collection of his works. Cf. STC, Johnson
This is a mixed sheet copy containing predominately material from the 1613-1617 printing of part 1, and the 1612-1613 printing of part 2 (STC 23084), but also contains individual sheets of the original 1609 printing of part 1 (STC 223083). Cf. Johnson for details of the printing of the various editions.
Leaves A2,5, Q1-4 from the 1609 printing. The 1609 printing had quire Q in 6 leaves, with Q5 and Q6 being the t.p. and first leaf of text of part 2; these were ommitted in the later printings as the t.p. of part 2 was printed on R1.
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| Record Author: | irc; checked by EJS 11/18/09
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| Record Source: | online catalogue
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| Siglum: | HUL_WKS_006
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