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"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…

The work was left unfinished at Urry's death, and the final revision and completion were entrusted to Timothy Thomas, who wrote the preface and glossary

Edited by Mary Berry. cf. Dict. nat. biog.

Pathfinder ed.

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-

In 1728 Tonson published an 8 volume set. A ninth volume was published that year to supplement the set. The tenth volume published by J. and J. Knapton, J. Darby, A. Bettesworth, J. Tonson and 10 others, is intended to accompany those 9 volumes

Edited by Sir Thomas Hanmer, who followed Pope's edition of 1723-25

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

v. 1. Memoir. Literary period. The symbolic system -- v. 2. Interpretation and paraphrased commentary. Blake the artist. Some references -- v. 3. The books.

The frontispiece of each volume is a portrait of Shakespeare engraved by M: V. Dr. Gucht ; The 1st edition after the four folios; the text based upon the fourth folio.