| Title: | The poetical works of Edmund Spenser. In eight volumes. From the text of Mr. Upton, & C. With the life of the author.
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| Repository: | U of Otago Central Library
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| Shelfmark: | De Beer Eb 1787 S
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| Published by: | J. Bell
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| Published Location: | London
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| Published date: | 1787
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| Copynotes: | Library has only vol. 1 and vol. 2.
Vol. 1: Marbled endpapers; brown calf with gilt tiling around sides of both front and back covers. Broken spine.
Vol. 2: Spine not cracked, but front cover detached. Same calf covers as Vol. 1. Lacks the Spenser image at front.
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| Editionnotes: | Vol. 1 title page: THE POETICAL WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER. VOL.I. CONTAINING HIS FAERY QUEENE. FROM MR. UPTON’S TEXT. Double rule; verse; double rule. LONDON; PRINTED BY J. BELL, BOOKSELLER TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES. 1787.
Engraved plates: 1. Image of Spenser – Printed for John Bell near Exeter Exchange Strand London Decr 15th 1777
2. Engraved title page: Bell’s Edition The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill. Spencer Volume I Printed for John Bell near Exeter Exchange Strand London Feby 16th 1778.
Vol. 2. title page: The engraved title page reads: Bell’s Edition The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill. Spencer Volume II. Printed for John Bell near Exeter Exchange Strand London Feby 16th 1778.
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| Record Author: | Cait Martinez 8/4/09; Elena Galkina 03/19/2018
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| Record Source: | Donald Kerr, donald.kerr@otago.ac.nz
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| Siglum: | UOT_WKS_001
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