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The faerie qveene, disposed into XII. bookes. fashioning twelue morall vertues. , 1609, PR2358 .A1 1609

Title: The faerie qveene, disposed into XII. bookes. fashioning twelue morall vertues.
Repository: U of Virginia
Shelfmark: PR2358 .A1 1609
Published by: Printed by H.L.
Published for: Mathew Lownes
Published Location: London
Published date: 1609
Copynotes: 1 p. l., 363, [1] p. ill. 28 cm. Signatures: A-Y*p6*s, Aa-Hh*p6*s, Ii*p2*s, unsigned leaf. Title vignettes; head and tail pieces; initials. "First folio edition, containing the first edition of 'Two Cantos of Mutabilitie, which, both for form and matter, appeare to be parcell of some following Booke of the Faerie Queene, under the Legend of Constancie.'"--Lowndes, v. 3, p. 2476. Colophon: At London, Printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes. 1609. (With head and tail piece, and printer's device) The second part has special t.-p.: The second part of the faerie qveene, containing the fovrth, fift, & sixt booke. By Ed. Spenser. Imprinted at London for Mathew Lownes. 1609. Contains book-plate of Henry Hucks Gibbs. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS: Errors in paging: p. 8 numbered 10; p. 311 numbered 31.
Editionnotes: By Edmund Spenser, whose name appears on A1v. In verse. First word of title is xylographic. The second part has separate dated title page on Q5r; pagination and register are continuous. "Tvvo cantos of mutabilitie", p. 353-end. The last leaf is blank. Signatures: A-Y⁶, 2A-2H⁶, 2I⁴. Variant: books 4-7 in the 1612/13 setting (see other record for characteristics).
Record Author: NS 6/14/10
Record Source: catalog
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Siglum: UVA_FQU_004
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