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The Family Shakespeare

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Contains 20 plays, expurgated by Thomas Bowdler

The Faerie Queene, Disposed into Twelve Bookes Fashioning XII Morall Vertues

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"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…

The Faerie Queene, 1596

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Reprint of the 1596 ed. published by W. Ponsonbie, London. Included as appendices are reprints of the ending of book 3 and the letter to Raleigh, both from the 1590 ed., and of the Mutability Cantos from the 1609 ed.

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The Faerie Queene Disposed into Twelue Bookes Fashioning XII. Morall Vertues

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"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…

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The Faerie Queene

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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

The Epitaph-Writer

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Pt. I. Contains general epitaphs of two and four lines each.--pt. II. Epitaphs on various characters and relations in life.--pt. III. Humorous and satirical epitaphs, designed as satires on vice and folly.

The Ellesmere Chaucer Reproduced in Facsimile

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Both volumes signed: S.H. ; Preface signed: Alix Egerton.

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