The poetical works of Edmund Spenser Volume II

Edmund Spenser, John Payne Collier (ed.)

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The poetical works of Edmund Spenser Volume II

1866

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Second of 5 volumes in 12mo. pp. vi, 316. Printer’s imprint in all but volume II. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Part of “The Aldine edition of the British poets” series issued by Bell and Daldy. "The text [...] is a careful verbatim reprint of that by Mr. J. Payne Collier [...] the memoir [v. 1, p. [ix]-xc] is also substantially the same as Mr. Collier's but is abridged." "Advertisement" signed: Norris Deck, Cambridge, who had prepared the text for the publishers based on Collier’s 1862 version (see Bib# 999/Fr# in this collection).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">There are two copies in this collection. The present one is a small paper copy in original cloth and has a presentation inscription by Collier to his daughter Emma Letitia, 11 January 1867. The second is a large paper copy in original cloth and is uncut. See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, II, pp. 833-837, 854, A149.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_1248513" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>

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