| Title: | The faerie queene / by Edmund Spenser ; with an exact collation of the two original editions published by himself at London in quarto, the former containing the first three books printed in 1590 and the latter the six books in 1596 ; to which are now added a new life of the author and also a glossary ; adorn'd with thirty-two copper-plates from the original drawings of ... W. Kent ...
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| Repository: | LSU Libraries Special Collections
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| Shelfmark: | RARE 828 SP35FXB v. 1-3
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| Published for: | J. Brindley, and S. Wright
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| Published Location: | London
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| Published date: | 1751
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| Copynotes: | Volumes 2 and 3 are bound in full leather (possibly 18th-century) with gold-stamped ornamentation; bindings cracked and chipped. Vol. 1 has been rebound, with parts of the earlier binding's covers retained.
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| Editionnotes: | Life of Spenser (in vol. 1) edited by Thomas Birch. Contents: Vol. 1. Letter of the author to Sir Walter Ralegh -- Verses on the Fairy Queen -- Verses of the author sent with the Fairy Queen -- An exact collation of the two original editions of the Fairy Queen, publish'd by the author himself -- An exact collation of Spenser's own edition of the 4th, 5th, and 6th books printed at London in 1596 in 4to with the first edition in folio printed there in 1609 -- Glossary -- Life of the author -- Fairy Queen, book I-II -- Vol. 2. Fairy Queen, book III-IV -- Vol. 3. Fairy Queen, book V-VI -- Fragment of book VII -- Glossary.
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| Record Author: | Nathan Sasser; CM 9/28/09; EG 07/04/2018
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| Record Source: | ESTC; Repository catalog; correspondence
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| Siglum: | LSM_FQU_001
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