Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Original: Editions of the Works of Edmund Spenser, the Grolier Club, New York (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Original: Editions of the Works of Edmund Spenser, the Grolier Club, New York

The French original of this work was published in London the previous year. Translations of six epi grams from Petrarch and fifteen sonnets from the Vis ions of Bellay (occupying B I verso to D 6 recto) are by Edmund Spenser (who was only 17 years old when they were published), and are his earliest published verse. They were afterwards reprinted, with some changes, in his Complaints, 1591.

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Excerpt from Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Original: Editions of the Works of Edmund Spenser, the Grolier Club, New York

EDMUND SPENSER, "England's Arch-Poet," died on the 16th of January, 1599. This exhibition of his published works is intended to commemorate the three-hundredth anniversary of that event. The extreme rarity of many of these volumes, not only in America, but also in England, must be the excuse for the few omissions in this otherwise very remarkable collection. The committee feel it is a subject for congratulation that the entire collection is made from the libraries of the members of the Club.

The earliest work of Spenser occurs in "A Theatre wherein be represented as well the miseries and calamities that follow the voluptuous Worldlings," etc. (London, 1569, by J. Vander Noodt), and consists of six Epigrams translated from Petrarch and fifteen Sonnets from the "Visions" of Bellay. Spenser was only seventeen years old when these translations were published. They were reprinted in the "Complaints" of 1591. The original 1569 volume, which is very rare, will be found in this exhibition.

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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.