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Printer's name from STC (2nd ed.).
Dedication, on t.p. verso, signed "Ed. Spenser."
Three "variants" of this edition have been distinguished based on states of the title leaf: STC 23080 ("1" of date under "r" of "for", verso blank); STC 23081 ("1" of date under "r" of "for", dedication on verso); and STC 23081a ("1" of date under first "i" of "William", dedication on verso). These are isolated press variants (reflecting stop press corrections), with no bearing on issue and no fixed relation to variant states found in other sheets of the book. See Johnson.
Title vignette (printer's device of John Wolfe: a fleur-de-lis with motto "Ubique floret."); head- and tail-pieces; initials; caption at head of each canto enclosed in ornamental border.
Collation: 4to: A-2O⁸ 2P⁸( -2P6,7 + 2Q⁴) [$4 (+AB5; -2P(Q4)) signed]; 306 leaves, pp. [2 unn.] 1-183 [184 (ill.)] 185-387 [388 (blank)] 389-589 [590 (blank)] 591-600 [601-608] 605-606 [=610] [misnumbering both outer formes of F: 79 as 81, 82-83 as 84-85, 86-87 as 88-89, 90-91 as 92-93, 94 as 96; also misprinting 309 as 319, 317 as 217, 510 as 600, 562 as 592, 586 as 589; other variant errors in pagination noted by Johnson]. The intended cancellation of leaves 2P6,7 and substitution of 2Q⁴ was almost never carried out, so that the book ends ... 2P⁸ 2Q⁴, p. ... 591-606, [8 unnumbered]; see Johnson.
Lines 4-5 of p. 332 are found in two variant states: with blank spaces left for text in Welsh; and with the Welsh text filled in (including variant incorrect and corrected "Seuith"/"Scuith").
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