The Faerie queene
Subtitle: disposed into twelve bookes fashioning XII morall vertues
By: by Edmund Spenser ; to which is added his Epithalamion ; illustrated by Edward Corbould.
Contributors: Corbould, Edward Henry, 1815-1905.; Dalziel Brothers.; Ballantyne, Hanson and Co.
Edition: New edition with a glossary.
Publisher: George Routledge and Sons
Published: 1881
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 820
Other titles: Spenser :
Notes: Date range based on publisher's address and inscription in Massey Library copy.  Cf. Topp, Chester W.  Victorian yellowbacks & paperbacks, Vol. I, 1993.

T.p. and text printed within decorative red rule border.

Publisher's advertisement on t.p. verso.

A few wood-engraved plates are signed as engraved by Dalziel after Edward Corbould.

Includes "Memoir of Edmund Spenser", signed "T. A. B.": p. [iv]-viii

MASS copy: Bound in teal green fine diagonal rib-grain cloth blocked in gold, black and blind.  Upper cover with red paper onlay blocked in black and gold.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With yellow-orange glazed endpapers.  With ownership inscription dated 1884: "James Livsey".  With chromolithographed greeting card pasted on upper paste-down endpaper.