SPENSER BY Richard Orillia, R. W. CHURCH The Property of (University of Michigan League Lifer MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON 1923 828 57480 C5 1923 COPYRIGHT First Edition printed 1879 Reprinted 1880, 1883, 1886, 1887, 1892, January and November 1894, 1901, 1906 Library Edition 1902. Reprinted 1909 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN As the plan of these volumes does not encourage footnotes, I wish to say that, besides the biographies prefixed to the various editions of Spenser, there are two series of publications, which have been very useful to me. One is the series of Calendars of State Papers, especially the State Papers on Ireland and the Carew MSS. at Lambeth, with the prefaces of Mr. Hans Claude Hamilton and the late Professor Brewer. The other is Mr. E. Arber's series of reprints of old English books, and his Transcript of the Stationers' Registers, a work, I suppose, without parallel in its information about the early literature of a country, and edited by him with admirable care and public spirit. I wish also to say that I am much indebted to Mr. Craik's excellent little book on Spenser and his Poetry. March, 1879. R. W. C. |