The faerie queene
Subtitle: disposed into twelue bookes, fashioning XII morall vertues
Contributors: Field, Richard, -1624, printer; Ponsonby, William, 1546?-1604, bookseller; Vickery, Willis, 1857-1932, former owner; Collier, Robert J. (Robert Joseph), 1876-1918, former owner; Sutherland, George Granville Leveson-Gower, Duke of, 1758-1833, former owner; White, William Augustus, 1843-1927, former owner; Bedford, Francis, 1799-1883, binder
Publisher: Printed [by Richard Field] for VVilliam Ponsonbie
Published: 1596
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 590
Other titles: Faerie qveene; Second part of the Faerie queene.
Notes: Dedication (A1v) identifies Edmund Spenser as the author.

The second edition of books 1-3; first edition of books 4-6.

Stationers' register: part 2 entered 20 January [1596]

Signatures: A-2Óı; ℗øA-2Íı ℗ø2Ḱþ

Woodcut tailpieces; decorated and historiated initials. Printer's device of Richard Field on title page. Full page woodcut of St. George and the dragon on p. [184]. The caption at head of each canto in a compartment with borders of type ornaments.

Book 4-6 has separate title page: The second part of the Faerie queene : containing the fourth, fifth, and sixth bookes / by Ed. Spenser. Imprinted at London : for William Ponsonby, 1596.

Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, entry 970

English short title catalogue, S117748

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 23082

Johnson, F.R. Critical bibliography of the works of Edmund Spenser printed before 1700, 10-11

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy cataloged under call no. G.385.29 bound in early mottled calfskin double-panelled in blind with the gilt armorial super-ex-libris of George Granville Leveson-Gower on the upper cover. The bookplates of Leveson-Gower and Willis Vickery are present on the front pastedown. Also present on the front pastedown is an ink inscription that reads, "The first edition [of the?] Faerie Queen." The bookplate of Robert J. Collier is present on the front flyleaf recto.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy cataloged under call no. G.385.28 v.2 bound by Francis Bedford in green morocco panelled in double-ruled gilt. The bookplate of Ray Slater Murphy is present on the front pastedown. The autograph of W.A. White (William Augustus?), dated 21 May, [18]88 is present on the front flyleaf recto. This copy contains books 4-6 only.