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

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-

"Brittain's Ida", first ascribed to Spenser in 1628 by Thomas Walkley, is now generally assigned to Phineas Fletcher.

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.

"This book has been hand-set and printed letterpress in Monotype Plantin series 110 at Seven Corners Press, Guildford and at Charles Mitchell Ltd., Woking. The original stencils for the prints were prepared by the artist and printed at Loddon…

"The first, in this Seventeenth Series of the fine books made for the members of this Club... The illustrations are portraits of the pilgrims, done as brilliantly-colored miniatures... The type used is Walbaum. The type pages are decorated with…

Printed on grey paper with an arrangement of rules and floriated initials in color; quarter bound in white buckram with beige paper over boards; the front cover of each volume is illustrated with a reproduction of Chaucer's arms.

Series: Riccardi press books

"This facsimile of the Kelmscott Chaucer has been printed for The Basilisk Press, London, by The John Roberts Press in Clerkenwell and completed on the 31st day of December 1974 ... The paper has been specially made at Saint Cuthbert's Mill at Wells…