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• Author/Creator:Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
  
• Uniform Title:[Faerie queene. Book 1-3]
  
• Title:The faerie queene : disposed into twelue bookes, fashioning XII morall vertues.
  
• Published/Created:London : Printed for William Ponsonbie, 1590.
  
• Physical Description:[2], 602, [8], 603-606 p. ; 19 cm. (4to)
  
• Links:View a digital version in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database (1976 1671)
  View a selection of digital images in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database (2014 160)
  

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: 1976 1671
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: 2014 160
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Local Notes:BEIN 1976 1671: Imperfect: slightly bled; cancellanda Pp6 and Pp7 present; cancellans Qq1-4 between Pp6 and Pp7. Binder's stamp: Bound by Riviere & Son. Binding: interior dentelles.
  BEIN 2014 160: Copy belonging W.H. Ireland with his forged Shakespeare autographs and ms. annotations, and his tipped-in transcriptions of those annotations. Imperfect: lower portion of t.p. torn away with partial loss of title and imprint and, on verso, Spenser's name, in the dedication; "1590" written in ms. above "London" in imprint; some headlines, signature notations and catchwords shaved; some minor worming. Page 309 misnumbered 319, Welsh and English words in lines 4 and 5 of p. 332 supplied in ms. Cancellans Qq1-4 not present (hence, pagination is [2], 606). Two bookseller descriptions pasted in, one annotated to say that the book had been owned by Wm. Harrison, Esq., of [Saintsbury?] Hall, Lancashire, and sold by Sotheby's in 1881. Ms. annotations. Frontispiece of Edmund Spencer inserted. Armorial bookplates of Robert Lang and Francis Freeling, bookplates of William Berry and Henry Cunliffe.
  
• Notes:The first edition of books I-III, with blank spaces left on p. 332; printer's device of John Wolfe with motto "Vbiqve floret" on t.p.
  One of three variants of this edition. This one has dedication on title page verso signed 'Ed. Spenser'; first digit of imprint date is under the 'r' of 'for'.
  Quire Qq is intended to cancel 2P6,7, but the latter are usually retained.
  Printed by John Wolfe.
  Signatures: A-2P⁸ 2Q⁴.
  
• Variant and related titles:Faerie qveene
  
• Format:Book
• References:STC 23081
  ESTC (RLIN) S121920
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Ireland, W. H. (William Henry), 1777-1835--Ownership.
  Freeling, Francis, Sir, 1764-1836--Bookplate.
  Cunliffe, Henry--Bookplate.
  Lang, Robert--Bookplate.
  Berry, William--Bookplate.
  Harrison, William--Ownership.
  
• Genre/Form:Binders' stamps (Binding)--Riviere & Son.
  Dentelle bindings (Binding)
  
• Also listed under:Ponsonby, William, 1546?-1604.
  Wolfe, John, -1601.
  Riviere & Son, binder.