| Title: | The second part of The faerie queene : containing the fourth, fifth, and sixth bookes / by Ed. Spenser.
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| Repository: | LSU Libraries Special Collections
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| Shelfmark: | PR2358 .A1 1596 VAULT PT. 2
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| Published for: | VVilliam Ponsonby
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| Published Location: | London
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| Published date: | 1596
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| Copynotes: | Library's Rare copy bound in 19th-century green morocco, with gold ornamentation and all edges gilt. Binder Francis Bedford (1799-1883). Housed in a clamshell case together with library's Rare copy of the 1590 edition of Books 1-3, cataloged separately. Local note: Dealer's description placed in the Rare Removal File, together with a photocopy of the entries from F.R. Johnson's bibliography pertaining to both volumes held by library.
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| 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).
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| Record Author: | Elena Galkina 07/04/2018
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| Record Source: | Repository catalog; correspondence
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