Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Outline Guide to the Study of Spenser
T/ze Faerie Queene, disposed into twelve Books fashioning xii Moral Virtues. Books 1-3 in 1590; books 4 6 in 1596 Dedicated, to Queen Elizabeth. First edition of whole work (bks'1-6) also in 1596. Also in 1609, first folio edition (first to contain the two Cantos of Mutability.) With works of Spenser, also in 1611, 1617, etc., etc. - see syllabus III. On 'f. Q., further. Complain/s, containing sundry small poems of the World's Vanity: z'. C., the Ruins of Time. Tears of the Muses, Virgil's Gnal, Prosopopoia or Mother Hubbard's Tale, the Ruins of Rome (by Bellay.) Muiopotmos or the Fate of the Butterfly (dated Visions of the World's Vanity, Bellay's Visions and Petrarch's Visions, 92 leaves. (sev eral of these pieces were bound up separately, as indepen dent publications.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
