| Title: | The faerie queene : disposed into twelue bookes, fashioning XII morall vertues.
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| Repository: | Boston Public Library
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| Shelfmark: | RARE BKS G.385.29
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| Published by: | Richard Field
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| Published for: | VVilliam Ponsonbie
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| Published Location: | London
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| Published date: | 1596
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| Copynotes: | Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy cataloged under call no. G.385.29 bound in early mottled calfskin double-panelled in blind with the gilt armorial super-ex-libris of George Granville Leveson-Gower.
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| Editionnotes: | Dedication (A1v) identifies Edmund Spenser as the author.
The second edition of books 1-3; first edition of books 4-6.
Stationers' register: part 2 entered 20 January [1596]
Signatures: A-2O⁸; ²A-2I⁸ ²2K⁴.
Woodcut tailpieces; decorated and historiated initials. Printer's device of Richard Field on title page. Full page woodcut of St. George and the dragon on p. [184]. The caption at head of each canto in a compartment with borders of type ornaments.
Book 4-6 has separate title page: The second part of the Faerie queene : containing the fourth, fifth, and sixth bookes / by Ed. Spenser. Imprinted at London : for William Ponsonby, 1596.
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| Record Author: | Cori Perdue 8/21/09; Elena Galkina 06/22/2018
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| Record Source: | Email from Sean Casey; Catalog
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