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SPENSER, Edmund, The Faerie Queene. With an exact Collation of the Two Original Editions, Published by Himself [Spenser] at London in Quarto; the Former containing the first Three Books printed in 1590, and the Latter the Six Books in 1596. To which are now added, A new Life of the Author, and also a Glossary. Adorn'd with thirty-two Copper-Plates, from the Original Drawings of the late W. KENT, Esq., London: Printed for J. Brindely. . . , 1751. 3 volumes. 4to, pp. [ii], lxiii [lxiv blank], xxxvii [xxxviii blank, xxxix - xl Contents, xli errata, xlii blank], 453 [454 blank]; [ii], 440, 20 full-page engraved plates in volume 1, 7 full-page engraved plates in volume 2, 5 full-page engraved plates in volume 3, dully rebound (probably 19th century) in quarter calf, publisher's cloth; tear in pp. 125-126 in volume 3, but otherwise a good clean set with good impressions of the plates.The life is by Thomas Birch, prolific writer, member of the Society of Antiquaries and Fellow of the Royal Society. The… Read More
