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The faerie qveen : The shepheards calendar : together with the other works of England's arch-poët (1611)

Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599, Lownes, Humphrey, d. 1629, printer, Lownes, Matthew, d. 1625, bookseller, Thompson, Silvanus Phillips, 1851-1916, former owner. IU-R, Riviere & Son, binder. IU-R · [London] : Printed by H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes · leaf 386

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