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001 $ 10/56
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20240402130447.6
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Spenser, Edmund
245 1 0 $a The fairy queen / $c Written by Edmund Spenser. With a glossary, explaining the old and obscure words. In two volumes. $n Volume the first. [Volume the second.]
260 # # $a London $b Printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand $c M DCC LVIII $c [1758]
300 # # $a 2 vols, 9 leaves of plates: $b illus., port.; $c 212 mm.
500 # # $a The portrait is an engraved illustration of Spenser in Vol. I at the head of p. [v]. The engravings of the plates are signed "Lud du Guernier inv: et sculp.". Vol. I opens with a reprinting of the original dedication by Spenser to Queen Elizabeth I. Vol. I includes Books 1-III; Vol. II includes books IV-VII.
510 0 # $a ESTC $c T134641
533 # # $a Also available as a microfilm: Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1986. 1 reel ; 35 mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 2740, no. 1)
561 # # $a The first loose endpaper in Vol I. has a signature in black ink, 'Charles A. Moysey / Ch: Ch: / 1804'. The signature, except for the date, is repeated on the same sheet of Vol. II.
563 # # $a Bound in brown leather; the spine has a red leather label lettered in gilt, 'Spenser's / Fairy / Queen' and on the brown leather below 'I [II]'.
600 1 4 $a Spenser, Edmund
653 # # $a English poetry Early modern, 1500-1700 - English poetry Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism - Knights and knighthood ; Poetry
700 1 # $a Du Guernier, Louis $e source artist $e engraver
700 1 # $a Elizabeth I $e dedicatee
700 1 # $a Moysey, Charles Abel $e previous owner
710 2 # $a J. and R. Tonson (London) $e publisher/bookseller