The faerie queene : disposed into twelue bookes, fashioning XII morall vertues.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599, author.

Contributor:

Field, Richard, -1624, printer.

Ponsonby, William, 1546?-1604, bookseller.

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Faerie queene

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knights and knighthood--Poetry--Early works to 1800.

Knights and knighthood.

Virtues--Poetry--Early works to 1800.

Virtues.

Genre:

Early works.

Poetry.

Poems.

Allegories.

Penn Provenance:

Pease, John William (bookplate)

Pease, Howard (bookplate)

Pease, Lucy Anne (bookplate)

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 18 cm (4to)

Other Title:

FAERIE QVEENE

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for VVilliam Ponsonbie, 1596.

Notes:

Dedication (A1v) identifies Edmund Spenser as the author.

The second edition of books I-III (v. 1); the first edition of books IV-VI (v. 2).

Stationers' register: part 2 entered 20 January [1596]

Signatures: A-2O⁸; ²A-2I⁸ ²2K⁴.

Woodcut tailpieces; decorated and historiated initials. Printer's device of Richard Field on title page. Full page woodcut of St. George and the dragon on p. [184]. The caption at head of each canto in a compartment with borders of type ornaments.

Book 4-6 has separate title page: The second part of the Faerie queene : containing the fourth, fifth, and sixth bookes / by Ed. Spenser. Imprinted at London : for William Ponsonby, 1596.

Cited in:

English short title catalogue, S117748

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 23082

Johnson, F.R. Critical bibliography of the works of Edmund Spenser printed before 1700, 10 (v.1), 11 (v. 2)

Contains:

Second part of the Faerie queene.

OCLC:

27699906