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The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser Edited with Critical Notes by J. C. Smith and E. de Selincourt with an Introduction by E. de Selincourt and a Glossary.
rif. 65489London New York Toronto Melbourne Bombay: Henry Frowde Oxford University Press 1912. 8vo. 19.5 x 12.5 cm. pp. lxix 736. Contemporary quarter vellum binding over green cloth boards; red and gilt rosebush and poppies on spine accompanied by blue leather label. Top edge gilt. Portrait of frontispiece of Spenser engraved by Emery Walker. Various engravings and decorations from Spenser's sixteenth century editions. Contents and binding fresh and clean. An excellent copy In 1909 J. C. Smith then Professor of English Literature at the University of Aberdeen produced a 'true text' from the extant sixteenth and seventeenth century editions of Spenser's 'Faerie Queene' standardising names spelling and punctuation. This edition published three years later in 1912 and edited by de Selincourt includes that text alongside the rest of Spenser's poetic work as well as his correspondence with his mentor Gabriel Harvey. London, New York, Toronto, Melbourne, Bombay: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1912. hardcover
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