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Editions -> Faerie Queene, Second Part -> 1596

The second part of The faerie queene : containing the fourth, fifth, and sixth bookes / by Ed. Spenser., 1596, PR2358 .A1 1596

Title: The second part of The faerie queene : containing the fourth, fifth, and sixth bookes / by Ed. Spenser.
Repository: U of California-Riverside Library
Shelfmark: PR2358 .A1 1596
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Published for: VVilliam Ponsonby
Published Location: London
Published date: 1596
Copynotes: With: Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. The faerie queene. London : Printed for VVilliam Ponsonbie, 1596. Probably as issued with Book 1-3. Local Note: In slipcase with: Faerie queene. Book 1-3 (London : Printed for VVilliam Ponsonbie, 1596).
Editionnotes: In verse. First edition of books 4-6. STC (2nd ed.) identifies the printer as Richard Field. Signatures: A-2I⁸ 2K⁴. Pagination is based on taking the title page as page 1; numerous errors in paging as described in Johnson, including 366-367 repeated. The caption at head of each canto in a compartment with borders of type ornaments. ESTC S117748 describes this edition together with the 1596 edition of Books 1-3; Johnson describes them separately, stating that more copies were probably printed of the second part than of the 1596 edition of the first part (originally published in 1590).
Record Author: Elena Galkina, 05/04/2018
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