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The Faerie Queene. Disposed into twelue books, Fashioning XII. Morall vertues.

Title-page Attribution: None 
Printer’s name from STC
In this variant, dedication on title page verso signed ‘Ed.Spenser’; first digit of imprint date is under the first ‘i’ of ‘William’
7 (Huntington, Hopkins, Massachusetts, NYPL, Morgan, Texas [2])
[And 26 copies of two other variants, STC 23080 and 23081]

1590

Author: Spenser, Edmund
Title: The Faerie Queene. Disposed into twelue books, Fashioning XII. Morall vertues.
Publication Location: London
Editor: Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie.
Date: 1590
Language: English
No of scans: 634
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? 
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