The faerie queene : disposed into XII bookes, fashioning twelue morall vertues.
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Description
- Title
- The faerie queene : disposed into XII bookes, fashioning twelue morall vertues.
- Alternative Title
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Faerie qveene
Two cantos of mutabilitie. - Creator
- Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599
- Contributor
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Lownes, Humphrey, -1629, printer
Lownes, Matthew, -1625, bookseller
Society of Brothers in Unity (Yale College)
Wilcox, P. B.--(Phineas Bacon),--1798-1863--Autograph - Published / Created
- 1609
- Publication Place
- At London :
- Publisher
- Printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes,
- Description
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"Two cantos of mutabilitie" (p. 353-363) has running title: The seventh booke of the Faerie queene (in 2 instances misspelled 'seaventh').
A letter ... to Sir Walter Raleigh (23. Januarie. 1589) -- A vision upon this conceit of The Faerie queene -- The shepheards calender -- Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds tale (1613) -- Colin Clouts come home again -- The mourning muse of Thestylis -- A pastorall aeglogue upon the death of Sir Philip Sidney -- An elegie, or friends passion -- Protalamion or A spousall verse -- Amoretti and Epithalamion -- Epithalamion -- Foure hymnes -- Daphnaida. An elegie -- Complaints containing sundry small poemes of the worlds vanitie -- The tears of the muses -- Virgils gnat -- The ruines of Rome: by Bellay -- Muiopotmos, or The fate of the butterfly -- Visions of the worlds vanitie -- The visions of Bellay -- The visions of Petrarch.
BEIN Z76 O75: Imperfect: title page mutilated, with some loss of text. Inscription at head of title: Roger Potts[?] ex dono ... 1647. Manuscript annotations throughout. Inscription at colophon: P.B. Wilcox, 1820. Stamps and binding of the Brothers in Unity at Yale. Some head- and tailpieces hand-colored.
Dedication (t.p. verso) names the author as Edmund Spencer.
First folio ed.
Printer identified as Humphrey Lownes.
Signatures: A-Y⁶ 2A-2H⁶ 2I⁴.
Special t.p. reads: The second part of the Faerie Queene : containing the fourth, fift, and sixt booke / by Ed. Spenser. Imprinted at London : For Matthew Lownes, 1609.
Variations in spelling of Faerie in 4th book canto 11-12 and 5th book Canto 10 through book seven, canto 7.
Woodcut head- and tailpieces; tailpieces with skeleton images; lion, dragon, putti, eagle and phoenix images on ornamental woodcut compartments. Page [364] has 1609 date with visible crack through block. - Extent
- [2], 363, [3] p. (the last leaf blank) ; 27 cm. (fol.)
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been partially digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Z76 O75
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- text
- Genre
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Annotations (Provenance)--19th century.--CtY-BR
Poetry.--(OCoLC)fst01423828 - Subject (Name)
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Lownes, Humphrey, -1629, printer
Lownes, Matthew, -1625, bookseller
Society of Brothers in Unity (Yale College)
Wilcox, P. B.--(Phineas Bacon),--1798-1863--Autograph - Subject (Topic)
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Knights and knighthood.--(OCoLC)fst00988113
Knights and knighthood--Poetry--Early works to 1800
Virtues.--(OCoLC)fst01167724
Virtues--Poetry--Early works to 1800
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- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
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English short title catalogue, S1728
Johnson, F.R. Spenser, 12
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 23083
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 1259597
- Object ID (OID)
- 15485344
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