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LEADER: 02609cam a2200505u 4500
001 161905
005 20130703182944.0
008 900910m18951897enkaf b 000 0 eng
010 $a15010432 //r28
035 $990-B26783
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050 0 $aPR2358.A3$bC7
100 1 $aSpenser, Edmund,$d1552?-1599.
240 10 $aFaerie queene
245 10 $aSpenser's Faerie queene.$bA poem in six books; with the fragment Mutabilite.$cEd. by Thomas J. Wise. pictured by Walter Crane.
260 $aLondon,$bG. Allen,$c1895-97.
300 $a6 v.$billus., plates.$c29 cm.
500 $aDouble t.-p. (v. 1) illustrated, dated 1897; each book has special t.-p., dated 1894-96, respectively those of books II-VI forming special title-pages to v. 2-6.
500 $aIncludes reproductions of original title-pages.
500 $aPaged continuously.
500 $aOne thousand copies printed on handmade paper.
500 $a"The basis of the text ... is the quarto of 1590, for books I-III; and the quarto of 1596, for books IV-VI."
500 $aVol. 1 contains (prefixed to Book I): Stanza by Mr. Walter Crane, on completing the work of illustration. Certificate of issue. Author's dedications. Editor's preface, including, inter alia, (i) The author's seventeen complimentary sonnets. (ii) The five cancelled stanzas from Book III., canto XII. (iii) The seven sets of commendatory verses addressed to the author. (iv) Spenser's letter to Sir Walter Raleigh, "expounding the intention of the work". (v) Letter from "Hobbynol" (Gabriel Harvey) to Edmund Spenser. (vi) Spenser's statement, circa 1584, of his aim and object in the conception and elaboration of the Faerie queene. Chronology of Edmund Spenser.
500 $aPrinted at the Chiswick Press.
504 $aBibliography is scattered throughout the editor's preface.
700 1 $aWise, Thomas James,$d1859-1937.
700 1 $aCrane, Walter,$d1845-1915.
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906 1 $aDK
909 1 $aAMH
911 1 $aDuck Collection
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935 $aaccrare
947 $aoclc mm 5/97
947 $amm restored pre-match record 5/1998
948 $a1725206
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