Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | Taunton, Ethel, binder.
Evans, G. Wallbrand, binder.
Wise, Thomas James, 1859-1937, editor.
Crane, Walter, 1845-1915, illustrator.
Evans, G. Wallbrand, binder.
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| Provenance: | Copy 1: Former owner's illustrated bookplate: Frederic Ives Carpenter.
Copy 2: Former owner's armorial bookplate: Edward Penton.
Copy 1: Binding: white cloth over boards; red lettering and gilt stamped illustration on upper board and gilt lettering on spine; pink printed wrappers bound in.
Copy 2: Binding: full green morocco over boards; floral designs and lettering tooled in gilt on spine; binder's signature: Doves Bindery.
Copy 3: Binding: Contemporary full calf over boards in Arts and Crafts style; spines with raised bands, the bands continued in blind with floral decoration onto the covers; spines lettered in gilt; green endpapers; gilt top edge; binder's signature: Taunton and Evans.
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| Notes: | Double t.p. (v. 1) illustrated, dated 1897; each book has special t.p., dated 1894-96, respectively those of books II-VI forming special title pages to v. 2-6.
Includes reproductions of original title pages.
Paged continuously.
One thousand copies printed on handmade paper.
"The basis of the text ... is the quarto of 1590, for books I-III; and the quarto of 1596, for books IV-VI."
Vol. 1 contains (prefixed to Book I): Stanza by Mr. Walter Crane, on completing the work of illustration. Certificate of issue. Author's dedications. Editor's preface, including, inter alia, (i) The author's seventeen complimentary sonnets. (ii) The five cancelled stanzas from Book III., canto XII. (iii) The seven sets of commendatory verses addressed to the author. (iv) Spenser's letter to Sir Walter Raleigh, "expounding the intention of the work". (v) Letter from "Hobbynol" (Gabriel Harvey) to Edmund Spenser. (vi) Spenser's statement, circa 1584, of his aim and object in the conception and elaboration of the Faerie queene. Chronology of Edmund Spenser.
Bibliography is scattered throughout the editor's preface.
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| Other form: | Online version: Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Spenser's Faerie queene. London, G. Allen, 1895-97
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