Author attribution and printer's name from ESTC

"Second part of The faerie queene : containing the fourth, fift, & sixt booke" has its own separate title page (Q5r); pagination and register are continuous

"Two cantos of mutabilitie" (pages 353-363) has running title: "The seventh booke of the Faerie queene"

Signatures: A-Y 2A-2H 2I (2I4 blank)

First word of title ("The") is xylographic

Printer's device on title pages (McKerrow 335); second printer's device on 2I3v, above colophon (McKerrow 211); head-pieces; tail-pieces; initials; portions of text within illustrated, ornamental borders

Title-leaf torn; text affected

Armorial bookplate "Nicholas English" on the inside of the front board; bookplate "Nell Rose Wheeler, Charles Van Cise Wheeler" on the recto of the front fly-leaf

Bookseller's bibliographic description pasted on the inside of the front board

Inscriptions and/or scribbles, mostly illegible, throughout title pageand portions of A2r

Scattered marginalia

STC (2nd ed.)

ESTC

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