The poetical works of Edmund Spenser The text carefully revised, and illustrated with notes, original and selected by Francis J. Child. Volume I

The poetical works of Edmund Spenser The text carefully revised, and illustrated with notes, original and selected by Francis J. Child. Volume I

Author: Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599,

Year: 1864

First of 5 volumes in 12mo. pp. iv, iii-lxxiii, [1] (blank), 384. Booklabel of Gladstone Library National Liberal Club on front pastedown. This volume has frontispiece portrait depicting Edmund Spenser. Later edition of The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, first published by the American scholar and folklorist Francis James Child (1825-1896) in 1855 as one of the two completely re-edited texts that formed part of Child’s vast series of ‘British Poets’ for the Boston publishers Little, Brown, and Company (130 vols., ca. 1854-1871). John Payne Collier would heavily rely on Child’s work for his own edition of Spenser’s poetical works (London, 1866, see Bib# 4117236/Fr# 1058). On Collier and his editions of Spenser, see A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, esp. II, pp. 833-855.