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SPENSER, Edmund (c.1522-1599). The Faerie Queene, disposed into XII. bookes, Fashioning twelve Morall Vertues. London: H.L. for Mathew Lownes, 1609.
2 parts in one volume, 2° in sixes (273 x 178 mm). With the final blank. Large woodcut device on each title, woodcut device colophon [McKerrow 211], woodcut frame around the legend at the head of each canto, woodcut tail-pieces, 5-line woodcut initial at the start of each canto. (Light soiling.) Contemporary calf, sides ruled in blind with central cartouche in gilt (rebacked, rubbed, upper board nearly detached). Provenance: Willliam Davenport (inscription in ink on title and A2, initials in blind on sides) -- Baldwin (leather bookplate) -- E.M. Cox (bookplate).
Third edition --FIRST FOLIO EDITION-- including the first publication of the two cantos of "Mutabilities". This copy was bound for William Davenport, possibly the diarist (bap. 1584, d. 1655), "an especially well-document example of someone who refused to take sides in the English civil war and who suffered for it", and who "kept one of the most interesting of all gentry commonplace books" (DNB). Johnson Edmund Spenser 12; Grolier Langland to Wither 234; Pforzheimer 971; STC 23083.
2 parts in one volume, 2° in sixes (273 x 178 mm). With the final blank. Large woodcut device on each title, woodcut device colophon [McKerrow 211], woodcut frame around the legend at the head of each canto, woodcut tail-pieces, 5-line woodcut initial at the start of each canto. (Light soiling.) Contemporary calf, sides ruled in blind with central cartouche in gilt (rebacked, rubbed, upper board nearly detached). Provenance: Willliam Davenport (inscription in ink on title and A2, initials in blind on sides) -- Baldwin (leather bookplate) -- E.M. Cox (bookplate).
Third edition --FIRST FOLIO EDITION-- including the first publication of the two cantos of "Mutabilities". This copy was bound for William Davenport, possibly the diarist (bap. 1584, d. 1655), "an especially well-document example of someone who refused to take sides in the English civil war and who suffered for it", and who "kept one of the most interesting of all gentry commonplace books" (DNB). Johnson Edmund Spenser 12; Grolier Langland to Wither 234; Pforzheimer 971; STC 23083.
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