Word: spenser
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...existing complete first edition collections of Walter Scott, a set of Shakespeare formerly belonging to Abraham Lincoln, some rare editions of Edmund Spenser's works, and a specially printed standard Book of Common Prayer are now on exhibition in the upper Treasure Room of Widener Library...
...volumes of Spenser, donated partly by the family of W. A. White '63, in the memory of whose son the greater part of the Dunster House library was given, were printed in the very early part of the 17th century...
...early work of great value is the first edition of Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queene." This has the dedication: "To the most Mightie and Magnificent Empresse Elizabeth, by the grace of God QUeene of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. Her most humble Servant: Ed Spenser." This copy is full of misprints and mistakes in the numbering of the pages; on page 332 blank spaces have been left for the insertion of Welsh words...
Except in Japan, TIME knows of no earlier use of Tycoon. But as many an oldster recalls, there appeared in 1882 an extremely popular comic opera by Willard Spenser entitled The Little Tycoon...
...edition of Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan" published in 1924 by Constable and Company, and a magnificent edition of Spenser's "Faerie Queen" printed in 1923 by the Ashendene Press have been placed in the exhibit of modern books. Both of these volumes are from the gift of Mr. Hofer...