The faerie queene : disposed into twelue bookes, fashioning XII morall vertues.
1596
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Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library STC 23082 copy 1
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Details
Title
The faerie queene : disposed into twelue bookes, fashioning XII morall vertues.
Uniform title
Faerie queene
Created/published
London : Printed for VVilliam Ponsonbie, 1596.
Description
[2], 590; 518 p. ; 20 cm (4to)
Associated name
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. author.
Field, Richard, -1624, printer.
Ponsonby, William, 1546?-1604, bookseller.
Field, Richard, -1624, printer.
Ponsonby, William, 1546?-1604, bookseller.
Note
The second edition of book 1-3; first edition of book 4-6.
Stationers' register: part 2 entered 20 January [1596]
Signatures: A-2O⁸; ²A-2I⁸ ²2K⁴.
Woodcut tailpieces; decorated and historiated initials. Printer's device of Richard Field on title page. Full page woodcut of St. George and the dragon on p. [184]. The caption at head of each canto in a compartment with borders of type ornaments.
Book 4-6 has separate title page: The second part of the Faerie queene : containing the fourth, fifth, and sixth bookes / by Ed. Spenser. Imprinted at London : for William Ponsonby, 1596.
Stationers' register: part 2 entered 20 January [1596]
Signatures: A-2O⁸; ²A-2I⁸ ²2K⁴.
Woodcut tailpieces; decorated and historiated initials. Printer's device of Richard Field on title page. Full page woodcut of St. George and the dragon on p. [184]. The caption at head of each canto in a compartment with borders of type ornaments.
Book 4-6 has separate title page: The second part of the Faerie queene : containing the fourth, fifth, and sixth bookes / by Ed. Spenser. Imprinted at London : for William Ponsonby, 1596.
Cited/described in
English short title catalogue, S117748
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 23082
Johnson, F.R. Critical bibliography of the works of Edmund Spenser printed before 1700, 10-11
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 23082
Johnson, F.R. Critical bibliography of the works of Edmund Spenser printed before 1700, 10-11
Includes
Second part of the Faerie queene.
Linked resources
Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library STC 23082 copy 1
Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library STC 23082 copy 2
Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library STC 23082 copy 6
Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library STC 23082 copy 2
Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library STC 23082 copy 6
Genre/form
Poems.
Allegories.
Allegories.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
STC 23082 copy 1
Folger-specific note
Manuscript biographical note (in Evelyn's hand?) of a long extract from William Camden's Annals (in Latin), 1615, book 2, p. 171, on Edmund Spenser.
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http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/v23kct Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library STC 23082 copy 1
Provenance:
Autograph of Ann Stewart on 2nd front free endpaper; inscription of Joshua Manwood dated March 29, 1600, with purchase price of 7 shillings on A2r; John Evelyn - Robert Hoe copy
Binding Information
Mottled calf binding with gilt decoration including monograms with initials 'I E' between palm and laurel.
2 volumes bound as one, with Colin Clouts come home againe, 1595 (STC 23077 copy 3).
2 volumes bound as one, with Colin Clouts come home againe, 1595 (STC 23077 copy 3).
Genre/form
Annotations.
Prices (Provenance)
Prices (Provenance)
Associated name
Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909, former owner.
Call number
STC 23082 copy 2
Folger-specific note
Preliminary leaves stained; title page repaired.
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Provenance:
Pencilled manuscript bibliographical note of Bernard Quaritch. Provenance: Earl of Carysfort - Harmsworth copy.
Binding Information
Bound separately in 2 vol in red goatskin with gilt tooling, signed by Zaehnsdorf.
Associated name
Zaehnsdorf (Firm), binder.
Call number
STC 23082 copy 3
Folger-specific note
Imperfect: Pt. 2 only.
Provenance:
In pencil on front free endpaper: "from collecn. of Sir Richard Tangye". Harmsworth copy.
Binding Information
Green goatskin binding, signed by F. Bedford; bound to be shelved with STC 23080 (the 1st ed.).
Associated name
Tangye, Richard, Sir, 1833-1906, former owner.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Bedford, Francis, 1799-1883, binder.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Bedford, Francis, 1799-1883, binder.
Call number
STC 23082 copy 4
Folger-specific note
Imperfect: Pt. 2 only
Binding Information
Red goatskin binding, signed by Lloyd, Wallis & Lloyd; bound to be shelved with STC 23081 copy 1.
Associated name
Lloyd, Wallis & Lloyd, binder.
Call number
STC 23082 copy 5
Folger-specific note
Imperfect: contains Book 1-3 only. A made-up copy: leaves A2-8, T1-X5, and 2O7,8, and gathering 2P are from the 1590 edition (STC 23080); paper repairs. A few manuscript notes, minor underlining and marginal marks. Tiny burn holes on H3, 2N5, 2O5.
Provenance:
Autographs and inscriptions: S. Lea 1719; to the ryght honorable Sr John Prince; Susanna Grant ["Grant" struck through]; S Kelly [struck through]; T. Tay[?]; Will. Andeley; Walter [Raleigh?--effaced] 1591; Henry Browne [2O8v]; Mr. Mory [2O8v]. Some annotations shaved at foreedge.
Gift of Anne Lake Prescott, 2010-11-24.
Gift of Anne Lake Prescott, 2010-11-24.
Binding Information
In a late 19th-century green leather binding (goatskin?), marbled paper endleaves, gilt edges, signed: Rogers, Binder, Colston St. Bristol.
Publications About Described Materials
Prescott, Anne Lake. "Two copies of the 1596 Faerie queene." Spenser studies, v. 23 (2008): 261-273.
Genre/form
Printed waste.
Annotations.
Made-up copies.
Annotations.
Made-up copies.
Associated name
Lea, S., active 1719, former owner.
Prince, John, Sir, former owner.
Grant, Susanna, active 17th century?, former owner.
Andeley, Will. (William), former owner.
Browne, Henry, active 17th century?, former owner.
Mory, Mr., active 17th century?, former owner.
Rogers, H. J., -approximately 1901, binder.
Prince, John, Sir, former owner.
Grant, Susanna, active 17th century?, former owner.
Andeley, Will. (William), former owner.
Browne, Henry, active 17th century?, former owner.
Mory, Mr., active 17th century?, former owner.
Rogers, H. J., -approximately 1901, binder.
Access advisory
RESTRICTED. Available by special permission only. Embroidered binding
Call number
STC 23082 copy 6
Folger-specific note
Imperfect: wanting all before C3 and all after ²2I8; C3 and C4 mutilated; H1 wanting and replaced with manuscript text.
Scattered manuscript annotations, apparently by a student.
Scattered manuscript annotations, apparently by a student.
Linked resources
https://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/s/2ljsra Digital image(s) of Folger Shakespeare Library STC 23082 copy 6
Provenance:
Autograph, second part, first page of text: John Sheridan his Book 1771; according to Prescott, probably the author of The present practice of the Court of King's Bench, 1774. Second part, title page verso: manuscript poem to Spenser in the same hand, signed "Jn Sheridan"; first line: "Immortal poet that with Stile Sublime."
Gift of Anne Lake Prescott, 2010-11-24.
Gift of Anne Lake Prescott, 2010-11-24.
Binding Information
In early binding, embroidery on velvet over boards, reinforced with vellum printed waste; initials "ET"; edges gilt. Stamp of 7-digit number, pencilled call number. Shelved in case.
Publications About Described Materials
Prescott, Anne Lake. "Two copies of the 1596 Faerie queene." Spenser studies, v. 23 (2008): 261-273.
Genre/form
Annotations.
Embroidered bindings.
Embroidered bindings.
Associated name
Sheridan, John (Barrister), former owner.
Condition
loose gatherings
Call number
STC 23082 copy 7 fragment Bd.w. STC 23081 copy 2 fragment
Folger-specific note
Imperfect: consists of nine loose leaves: A6-A8 and C1-C3 from the 1590 edition (particular variant not identifiable), and leaves B4-5 and H1 from the 1596 edition.