Accession number
PML 126225-26
Creator
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
Published
London : Printed for William Ponsonbie, 1596.
Credit line
Bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.
Notes
Printed by Richard Field, whose device appears on t.p.--Cf. R. McKerrow, Printers' & publishers' devices in England & Scotland 1485-1640, #222.
Separate t.p. for v. 2: The second part of the Faerie queene : containing the fourth, fifth, and sixth bookes / by Ed. Spenser.
This edition omits the sonnets at the end of the 1590 edition.--ESTC.
Signatures: v. 1: A-2O⁸; v. 2: A-2I⁸ 2K⁴.
Separate t.p. for v. 2: The second part of the Faerie queene : containing the fourth, fifth, and sixth bookes / by Ed. Spenser.
This edition omits the sonnets at the end of the 1590 edition.--ESTC.
Signatures: v. 1: A-2O⁸; v. 2: A-2I⁸ 2K⁴.
Description
2 v. ([2], 590, [2], 518 p.) : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm.
Inscriptions/Markings
Sonnets from the 1590 ed. have been written in an early hand at the end of v. 1.
Provenance
Inscribed by Edward Berwick; collection of E. Clark Stillman.
Binding
Full calf with gilt stamping on covers and spine, red morocco label on spine, in box.
Classification
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