AN ECLECTIC LIBRARY.

Edmund Spenser.

The Faerie Queene. Disposed into twelve books, fashioning XII. morall virtues. London: Printed for William Ponsonbie, 1590. —Includes books I–III and commendatory verses, etc.

The Second Part of the Fairie Queene. Containing the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth bookes. By Ed. Spenser. Imprinted at London for William Ponsonby, 1596.

The Fairie Queen: The Shephears Calender: Together with the Other Works of England’s Arch-Poet, Edm. Spenser: Collected into one volume, and carefully corrected. Printed by H. L. for Matthew Lownes, Anno Dom. 1611. —We have the original of this edition in our physical library, but this copy at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is in better shape.

The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser. Edited, with a new Life, based on original Researches, and a Glossary embracing Notes and Illustrations, by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart, LL.D. (Edin.), F.S.A. Printed for private circulation only, 1882–4. —Because many copies of this rare edition are poorly scanned, we include multiple copies of each volume.

Vol. I. Life of Spenser; essays.
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Vol. II. The Shepheards Calender and Glosse.
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Vol. III. Complaints; essays.
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Vol. IV. Essays on the minor poems of Spenser; Daphnaida; Colin Clouts Come Home Again; Amoretti and Epithalamion; Fowre Hymns; Prothalamion; Astrophel, etc.; Sonnets.
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Vol. V. The Fairie Queene, Book I to Book II, Cant. vii.
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Vol. VI. The Fairie Queene, Book II Cant. vii to Book III Cant. x.
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Vol. VII. The Fairie Queene: Book III, Cant. xi, to Book V, Cant. vii.
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Vol. VIII. The Fairie Queene, Book V, cant. viii, to Book VI, cant. XII; Two Cantos of Mutabilitie; Letter to Sir Walter Raleigh; Commendatory Poems and Sonnets.
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Vol. IX. A Veue of the Present State of Ireland; Letters, etc.
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Vol. X, which would have comprised a “Glossarial index, with notes and illustrations on every word, person and thing, in the entire works,” appears never to have been published.

The Works of Edmund Spenser. Edited from the original editions and manuscripts by R. Morris. With a memoir by John W. Hales, M.A. The Globe Edition. London: Macmillan and Co., 1902.

The Complete Works of Edmund Spenser. With an introduction by William P. Trent. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1903.

The Complete Poetical Works of Spenser. Cambridge Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908. [Twelfth printing.]

The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser. Edited with critical notes by J. C. Smith and E. De Selincourt. With an introduction by E. De Selincourt and a glossary. Oxford, 1921.