| Title: | The faerie queene, : disposed into XII. bookes, fashioning twelue morall vertues..
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| Repository: | Oxford U Bodleian Library
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| Shelfmark: | Vet. A2 d.101
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| Published by: | H[umphrey]. L[ownes]
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| Published for: | Mathew Lownes
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| Published Location: | London
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| Published date: | 1609
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| Copynotes: | Binding: 17th century sheep, red sprinkled edges. Upper board detached.
Size: 28 cm.
Bookplate: Ex libris Cradock's Hill, Nottage.
Bookplate: Pictorial bookplate of Winfield on upper paste-down.
Note: Both parts dated 1609 [i.e. STC 23083]
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| Editionnotes: | The second part has a separate t.p. reading "The second part of The faerie queene ...". In later issues this second t.p. is dated "1612" or "1613" and the sheets that follow are from the 1612/13 edition (STC 23083.7)
Later issues were usually issued by Lownes with other works by Spenser [i.e. A letter of the authors. To Sir Walter Raleigh (23086.3); The shepheardes calender (23093.5) and Colin Clouts come home againe (23077.3).
Woodcut head- and tail-pieces, borders and device on t.p. and in colophon.
The t.p. of the second part bears the author's name.
Signatures: A-P6 Q4 R-Z6 Aa-Hh6 (Hh6 is blank) (STC 23083.7) or A-Y6, 2A-2H6, 2I4 (STC 23083).
By Edmund Spenser, whose name appears on A1v.
In verse.
First word of title is xylographic.
The second part has separate dated title page on Q5r; pagination and register are continuous.
"Tvvo cantos of mutabilitie", p. 353-end [i.e. the 7th book]
The last leaf is blank.
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| Record Author: | checked by EJS 11/5/09; NS 6/25/10
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| Record Source: | catalog
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