The fairy queen / Written by Edmund Spenser. With a glossary, explaining the old and obscure words. In two volumes. Volume the first. [Volume the second.]
London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand, M DCC LVIII
Physical Description
2 vols, 9 leaves of plates: illus., port.; 212 mm.
General Note
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.
References
ESTC, T134641
Reproductions
Also available as a microfilm: Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1986. 1 reel ; 35 mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 2740, no. 1)
Provenance
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.
Binding Note
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]'.