The poetical works of Edmund Spenser Volume I

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First of 5 volumes in 12mo. pp. xc (viii numbered vi), 218. Printer’s imprint in all but volume II. First volume includes engraved portrait of Spenser, signed ‘Engraved by Aug. Fox.’ 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). 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. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.