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Prothalamion; or, A spousall verse made by Edm. Spenser. In honour of the double mariage of the two honorable & vertuous ladies, the Ladie Elizabeth and the Ladie Katherine Somerset, daughters to the Right Honourable the Earle of Worcester, and espoused to the two worthie gentlemen, M. Henry Gilford and M. William Peter, Esquyers.

Accession number
PML 127067
Creator
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
Published
At London, Printed [by J. Orwin] for VVilliam Ponsonby, 1596.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1990.
Notes
Signatures: A⁴, B².
First edition, with the catchword "From" on B2 recto.
The Pforzheimer catalogue identifies the printer (p. 1009) as John Windet based on ownership of the arabesque ornamental block on the title page, which passed from Wolfe to Windet about 1593. Attribution to Orwin is from STC, which post-dates Pflorzheimer.
Description
[2], 10 p. ; 19 cm
Provenance
H. Bradley Martin (his sale New York, 1 May 1990, lot 3224).
Binding
Modern red crushed morocco gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
Classification
Department