Dear Friends,
I wanted to forward this message on behalf of the person selling that 1590
FQ. After re-examining his copy, he finds
some additional pages to be missing, but he can't use the various tools on
eBay to contact the bidder with this new
information. He recalls that the high bidder was a Spenser scholar, though,
and hoped I could pass this message on
to the list, in hopes that bidder will see the information. I'm pasting his
message below.
Andy
May I impose on you to make another post to your Spenser list about my
book on e-Bay? I decided to go through
it once again very carefully, with Francis Johnson's Critical Bibliography
of the Works of Edmund Spenser in hand, to
check "points," especially the errors in pagination unique to this 1590
first edition.
All the mispaginations are correct, according to Johnson, but to my
everlasting shame in my long list of missing
leaves in the e-Bay description I left out two missing bifolia: sig F4-5
(pp. 85-88) and sig. G4-5 (pp. 101-104). The
e-Bay system will not let me send another note to the high bidder, who did
not reveal his e-mail address. I'd like
him to know, if he reads your list-serv, that I will of course cancel the
sale if these additional missing leaves spoil
the prospective purchase for him.
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> On Oct 27, 2008, at 8:05 AM, anne prescott wrote:
>
>> Thanks, John. I imagine the people wanting to know would be the
>> editors of the Oxford Spenser. I know David Miller is on the list.
>> I'll copy this to Joe Lowenstein (who just gave a terrific and
>> moving plenary talk at the SCSC conference on Saturday) in case he
>> isn't in the list--I know he has had Spenser stuff digitized. The
>> seller is, if I have this right, mallardbooks--anyway, I know
>> mallard is in the name. I have a query in about possible marginalia.
>> So far the bidding is about $1100 but there is no way it's going to
>> sell for that, although it's damaged, and there's a week to go. Once
>> when I did bid $500 on a 16th century Ariosto, knowing it was a
>> futile gesture, the bookseller simply withdrew the book after no bid
>> came anywhere near the book's worth. Oh to be rich. Yes, you can see
>> the 1590 edition on EEBO, but still . . . . Anyway, David and the
>> others can add it to the list and maybe track down the seller. Anne
>> Prescott.
>> On Oct 26, 2008, at 2:53 PM, John Geraghty wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I just noticed a 1590 copy of the FQ on ebay. The link is:
>>> http://cgi.ebay.com/EDMUND-SPENSER-FAERIE-QUEENE-1590-1ST-ED-NR-
> COMPLETE_W0QQitemZ300268432721QQcmdZViewItem?
> hash
> =
> item300268432721
> &_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1420%7C66%3A2%7C65
> %3A12%7C39%3A1%7
> C240%3A1318
>>>
>>>
>>> I remember someone on the list wanting to track all existing
>>> copies. I just can't remember who it was.
>>> This might be another one to add to that list.
>>>
>>> -John
>>>
>>> You live life beyond your PC. So now Windows goes beyond your PC.
>>> See how
>>
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