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The faerie queene. / By Edmund Spenser. With an exact collation of the two original editions, published by himself at London in quarto; the former containing the first three books printed in 1590, and the latter the six books in 1596. To which are now added, a new life of the author, and also a glossary. Adorn'd with thirty-two copper-plates, from the original drawings by the late W.Kent, Esq..., 1751, YH75.1[Fae]

Title: The faerie queene. / By Edmund Spenser. With an exact collation of the two original editions, published by himself at London in quarto; the former containing the first three books printed in 1590, and the latter the six books in 1596. To which are now added, a new life of the author, and also a glossary. Adorn'd with thirty-two copper-plates, from the original drawings by the late W.Kent, Esq...
Repository: Oxford U English Faculty Library
Shelfmark: YH75.1[Fae]
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Published for: J. Brindley and S. Wright
Published Location: London
Published date: 1751
Copynotes: 3 v. [4], xxxvii, [1], 453, [1]; [2], 450; [2], 440 p., 32 leaves of plates : ill. ; 4o Sig. Eee is present in duplicate in vol.I. the 'life' is by T. Birch. Initials, head- and tail-pieces.
Editionnotes: Sig. Eee is present in duplicate in vol.I. The 'life' is by T. Birch. Initials, head- and tail-pieces. The 'Proposals for printing by subscription, The faerie queene' were issued on 1 July 1751. Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1986. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 3940, no. 04).
Record Author: Catherine Blose; NS 6/28/10
Record Source: Susan Usher
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