| Editionnotes: | Description: 518 (i.e. 520) p. 19 cm.
First edition of books I-III
Signatures: A-Z8, Aa-Pp8, Qq4 (Pp6-7, both cancels and canceled leaves of the complimentary sonnets present in this copy)
Pages 79, 82-83, 86-87, 90-91, 94, 309, 317, 403, 439, 510, 562, 586 incorrectly numbered 81, 84-85, 88-89, 92-93, 96, 319, 217, 40 [character 3 reversed and up-side down], 493, 600, 592, 589, respectively.
Title vignette (printer’s device of John Wolfe, a fleur-de-lis with motto "Ubique floret."); head and tailpieces; initials; caption at head of each canto enclosed in ornamental border.
William Luther Lewis collection.
Binding: full green crushed morocco by F. Bedford; front and back: gold ruled rectangular borders with gold stamped corner decorations; spine: gold stamped decorations and letters; edges of binding: gold ruled; inner margins: gold stamped decorative design; marbled lining papers; edges: trimmed and gilt; inside front cover bears bookplates of Huth Library, Edgar F. Leo, W. Vane Whitall, and William H. Woodin.
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