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The Second Part of the Faerie Qveene. Containing the Fovrth, Fifth, and Sixth Bookes.

Title-page Attribution: By Ed. Spenser.
Not a copy of STC 23082 in its entirety, as it contains only Books IV, V, and VI (the Second Part)
Printer’s name from STC
Other Copies: 38

1596

Author: Spenser, Edmund
Title: The Second Part of the Faerie Qveene. Containing the Fovrth, Fifth, and Sixth Bookes.
Publication Location: London
Editor: Imprinted at London [by Richard Field] for William Posonby.
Date: 1596
Language: English
No of scans: 536
Type: Print
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  • that the Bodmer holds the largest collection of early Shakespeare editions outside the Anglophone world? 
  • that the original price for a bound copy of the First Folio when it was first published in 1623 was about £1? 
  • that Bodmer bought most of his Shakespearean books from the American collector A. S. W. Rosenbach in 1951?
  • that the Bodmer contains 24 early modern printed English books which survive in just 10 or fewer copies?
  • more than 230 copies of the First Folio survive, but the Bodmer copy is the only one in Switzerland?