The Faerie Queene

Alternative Title

The Faerie Queene disposed into twelue bookes fashioning XII morall vertues

Date Created

1923

Identifier

PR2358 1923 [Special Collections Dble Oversize]

Subject

Publisher

Ashendene Press : Middlesex, England

Abstract

The colophon, or finishing stroke, is a note at the end of a book giving all or some of the following particulars: name of work, author, printer, place of printing and date. In its elementary function of identifying the edition, it has been superceded by the title-page. Many private press productions contain colophons, offering additional information on paper and press used, issues printed (here 180 paper copies; 12 on vellum), and in this example from the C.H. St. John Hornby’s Ashendene Press, a strikingly red printer’s device and a prayer to future binders about cropping the deckled edged pages. The Ashendene Press is ranked as one of the Trinity of English private presses, alongside Doves and Kelmscott.

Files

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Citation

Spenser, Edmund and Smith, James Bruce Kehanlts, “The Faerie Queene,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed October 14, 2024, https://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/7626.