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Editions -> Faerie Queene, Second Part -> 1596

The faerie queene : disposed into twelue bookes, fashioning XII morall vertues. , 1596, RARE BKS G.385.29

Title: The faerie queene : disposed into twelue bookes, fashioning XII morall vertues.
Repository: Boston Public Library
Shelfmark: RARE BKS G.385.29
Published by: Richard Field
Published for: VVilliam Ponsonbie
Published Location: London
Published date: 1596
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.
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.
Record Author: Cori Perdue 8/21/09; Elena Galkina 06/22/2018
Record Source: Email from Sean Casey; Catalog
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