Eliz 221: Bound by Rivière in blue goatskin, gold tooling on cover and spine, gilt edges. Gift of Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911. and The first edition.
Publisher:
Imprinted for William Ponsonbie, dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Bishops Head
Eliz 179: Bound in brown goatskin, gilt edges. George Daniel's copy, with a manuscript note, signed, on a front flyleaf; sold as lot 1451 in the Daniel sale, Sotheby's, 26 July 1864. The Huth copy (with bookplate) acquired by Mr. Cochran in November 1911 prior to the public sale. Gift of Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911. and The first edition.
Publisher:
Printed by Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, and are to be sold at the signe of the White Greyhound in Paules Church-yard
Described in Hoe, pp. 176-177., First edition, London, 1590., Head and tail pieces; initials., Imperfect [paragraph]1 (blank) wanting. 2 Pastoralls inserted at end of this impression. Autograph of Henry Oxenden (1628). Book-plate of Hannah D. Rabinowitz., Signatures: [paragraph]4, A-Z6, Aa-Zz6, Aaa-Bbb6., The Covntesse of Pembrokes Arcadia.--Sonets.--The defence of poesie.--Astrophel and Stella.--Her most Excellent Maiestie vvalking in VVansteed garden., and Title within ornamental woodcut border with a "porcupine" or boar at the head and foot.
Publisher:
Imprinted for William Ponsonbie.
Subject (Name):
Oxenden, Henry--Autograph. and Rabinowitz, Hannah D.--Bookplate.
Eliz 222: Bound by Rivière in purple goatskin, gold tooling on cover and spine, gilt edges. Title page remargined. Qq⁴ in incorrectly bound in between Pp₇ and Pp₈. Gift of Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911. and The first edition, containing only books I-III, with an ending that Spenser changed when he added Books IV-VI.