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Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Large woodcut printer's device to main title and title to the second part, as well as final leaf verso, decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces, wormhole to upper blank corner continuing from the title to page 268, generally not affecting text, smaller unobtrusive wormholes to lower blank margins beginning at the title to the second part and continuing to page 308, final 16 leaves (2F6 onwards) with paper repairs to lower outer edges, final leaf with repairs, 2I2 (i.e pp. 361-2) with wormtracks in text and subsequent small loss of text, occasional toning and small damp stains, mainly in second part, some dust-soiling to title and a few leaves, occasional underlining and early annotations, bookplate of William Fair of Langlee, later tree calf gilt, loer cover detached, spine and covers rubbed NOTE: Pforzheimer 971; STC 23083. The first folio edition (first published in 1590) and the first to include the Two Cantos of Mutabilitie not published in the first edition. Please see photos as part of condition report 1609 1st Folio Edition , THE FAERIE QUEENE Disposed into XII. Bookes, Fashioning twelve Morall Vertues By Edmund Spenser Edmund Spenser (1552/1553 ? 13 January O.S. 1599) was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse, and he is considered one of the great poets in the English language. Illustrated By: Format: Hardcover, Language: Latin Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: H. L. for Mathew Lownes, London quarto (4to 9+1?2�נ12 241 נ305),Pages 368 ISBN: The Faerie Queene is an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser. Books I?III were first published in 1590, then republished in 1596 together with books IV?VI. The Faerie Queene is notable for its form: at over 36,000 lines and over 4,000 stanzas, it is one of the longest poems in the English language; it is also the work in which Spenser invented the verse form known as the Spenserian stanza. On a literal level, the poem follows several knights as a means to examine different virtues, and though the text is primarily an allegorical work, it can be read on several levels of allegory, including as praise (or, later, criticism) of Queen Elizabeth I. In Spenser's "Letter of the Authors", he states that the entire epic poem is "cloudily enwrapped in Allegorical devices", and that the aim of publishing The Faerie Queene was to "fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline". Spenser presented the first three books of The Faerie Queene to Elizabeth I in 1589, probably sponsored by Walter Raleigh. The poem was a clear effort to gain court favour, and as a reward Elizabeth granted Spenser a pension for life amounting to �50 a year, though there is no further evidence that Elizabeth ever read any of the poem. This royal patronage elevated the poem to a level of success that made it Spenser's defining work. Contents: A letter . to Sir Walter Raleigh (23. Januarie. 1589) A vision upon this conceit of The Faerie queene The shepheards calender Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds tale (1613) Colin Clouts come home again The mourning muse of Thestylis A pastorall aeglogue upon the death of Sir Philip Sidney An elegie, or friends passion Protalamion or A spousall verse Amoretti and Epithalamion Epithalamion Foure hymnes Daphnaida. An elegie Complaints containing sundry small poemes of the worlds vanitie The tears of the muses Virgils gnat The ruines of Rome: by Bellay Muiopotmos, or The fate of the butterfly Visions of the worlds vanitie The visions of Bellay The visions of Petrarch SKU: BTETM0002431 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 30, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 3Kg.

The Faerie Queene is a celebrated epic poem by Edmund Spenser, first published in 1590. The poem is an allegory praising Queen Elizabeth I and reflecting the values and ideologies of Elizabethan England. It is one of the longest poems in the English language and is renowned for its richly imaginative narrative and moral allegory.