Edmund Spenser:  The Classic Text: Traditions and Interpretations


The gentle mind by gentle deeds in known.  For a man by nothing is so well bewrayed, As by his manners. (Book 6, canto 3, st. 1)

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Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
The Works of Edmund Spenser. Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1930-1932.
Call Number: (SPL) PR 2351 .R43x 1930
Special Collections, Golda Meir Library

Limited edition of 375 copies, edited by R.I. Renwick. The texts for books I-III are taken from the 1590 edition with alterations taken from Spenser's edition of 1596. Books IV-VI are taken directly from the 1596 edition. The decorations were designed by Hilda Quick. The initial letters and the letterings for the title-pages and headings were engraved by her from designs by Joscelyne Gaskin.


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