| Title: | The poetical works of Edmund Spenser. In eight volumes. From the text of Mr. Upton, &c. With the life of the author. ...
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| Repository: | U of St. Andrews Library
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| Shelfmark: | s PR2350.D87 Vol. 1-8
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| Published by: | J. Bell
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| Published Location: | London
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| Published date: | 1787
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| Copynotes: | St Andrews engraved title pages have been trimmed at the bottom so that publication information is not visible in all volumes.
Bound uniformly in contemporary tree calf; spine divided into five compartments by gold tooling, with a floral motif in the 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 5th compartments, and a green leather spine label (Spenser) lettered in gold in the 2nd complartment; board edges tooled in blind.
Condition notes:
Vol. 1: Upper joint rubbed and cracked at the top; lower joint cracked; all board edges rubbed; lower corners bending inwards; upper corners and headcap rubbed.
Vol. 2: Both joints rubbed; upper joint beginning to split at the top; board edges rubbed and corners turning inwards.
Vol. 3: Both joints rubbed; board edges rubbed; corners bending inwards; headcap rubbed with calf peeling off.
Vol. 4: Rubbing to joints and board edges; corners beginning to bend inwards; spine label beginning to peel away (at lower board edge).
Vol. 5: Upper joint rubbed; all board edges rubbed; corners beginning to bend inwards.
Vol. 6: Both joints rubbed; all board edges rubbed; headcap rubbed; upper corners beginning to bend inwards.
Vol. 7: Both joints rubbed; upper joint splitting at top; endcaps rubbed, with calf coming at headcap, and a patch torn away at tailcap (on upper board side); corners rubbed and bending inwards; light scratch to upper board (top left)
Vol. 8: Both joints rubbed; upper joint begin to split at top; all board edges rubbed; corners beginning to bend inwards; rubbing to both boards (more severe on upper board).
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| Editionnotes: | Vol. 1 frontispiece is a portrait of Edmund Spenser engraved by [Thomas] Cook.
With engraved collective title pages (Bell's edition. The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill. Spencer [sic] volume ...) dated 1778, drawn by [John Hamilton] Mortimer, and engraved by [William] Sharp.
Each volume has an additional letterpress titlepage.
Vol. 3-8 are dated 1788.
Pages v-xviii of vol. 1 contain "The life of Edmund Spenser".
Contents: Vols 1-6: Faery Queene, from Mr. Upton's text -- Vol. 7: Shepherd's calendar, Hymns, Visions, Moth. Hubberd's tale, Prothalamion, Epithalamion, &c. &c. &c. -- Vol. 8: Sonnets, Elegiac poems, Tears of the muses, Ruins of Rome, Ruins of time, Muiopotmos, &c. &c. &c.
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| Record Author: | Nathan Sasser 7/21/09; Elena Galkina 05/18/2018
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| Record Source: | Library Catalogue; ESTC; correspondence
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