Accession number
PML 6529
Creator
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
Published
London : Imprinted for VVilliam Ponsonbie, dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Bishops head / 1591.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
"The tears of the muses," "Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds tale," and "Mviopotmos, or The fate of the butterflie" have special title pages; t.p. of "Mviopotmos" is dated 1590.
2[superscript]4 a blank, lacking.
Cf. Clark, W.A. Early Eng. lit. 1920-25. v. 1, p. 124-125; Johnson, F.R. A critical bibliography of the works of Edmund Spenser ... Baltimore, 1933, p. 24-28.
First edition.
2[superscript]4 a blank, lacking.
Cf. Clark, W.A. Early Eng. lit. 1920-25. v. 1, p. 124-125; Johnson, F.R. A critical bibliography of the works of Edmund Spenser ... Baltimore, 1933, p. 24-28.
First edition.
Description
1 v. (unpaged) 18 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Numbers added to the sections of Teares of the Muses.
Provenance
The Asay-Irwin copy. Willaim Pickering bookseller's label.
Binding
Green morocco.
Classification
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Department