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v. 1. The life of Mr. Edmund Spenser. An essay on allegorical poetry. With remarks on the writings of Mr. Edmund Spenser. A glossary explaining the old and obscure words in Spenser's works. The fairy queen, book I.
v. 2-3. The fairy queen, books II-

A new edition with a glossary, and notes explanatory and critical by John Upton

The text of Books I to VI is that of the edition of 1596; the fragment of Book VII is from the folio edition of 1609. The letter to Sir Walter Raleigh and the prefatory verses are from the edition of 1590

"Printed at the Ashendene press, at Shelley House, Chelsea,in the county of Middlesex, by C.H. St J. Hornby assisted by I. Jenkins, compositor, and G. Faulkner, pressman ... The text ... is, with some few very minor alterations, that edited for the…

"The text of the present edition... follows in every case the first editions with such alterations only as are held to be corrections of printers' errors ... The decorations have been designed and engraved on wood by Hilda Quick, those in The…

"The second, in this Twenty-second Series of the fine books made for the members of this Club ... typographic plans ... [of] John Austen... The composition, the printing and the binding were done under the supervision of Charles Batey ... The type is…

Collotype reproduction

Collotype reprint of the so-called Devonshire copy, which has title: The tragicall historie of Hamlet, prince of Denmarke. By William Shakespeare. Newly imprinted and enlarged to almost as much againe as it was, according to the true and perfect…