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The cover, in very faded blue velvet, is certainly very old but I have a nagging memory that somebody told me blue velvet isn't Elizabethan. I could be making that up.Trust me, I looked up Elizabeth Trockmorton fast, as well as Elizabeth Tyrwhitt--and reluctantly ruled out, well, Elizabeth Tudor. But it could be some Victorian lady, after all. Gail Paster gave me hope that she and Steve Galbraith (author of a lovely essay on Spenser and black letter) can pick it up next week and then she or somebody down there can tell me/us). I wish I knew at what point it its ownership somebody repaired some edges and added the Letter to Ralegh--at the back, by the way, not at the front, which . . . but that's another issue. I'll miss the volumes, but they do not belong in an apartment or house, not because they are hugely valuable but because they are frail. Now to get some library to buy that $65,000 annotated Donne I may have mentioned on the list and that's for sale at Arader's in NYC. Anne. On Jul 12, 2010, at 6:46 AM, Vincent, Helen wrote: > Anne, > >It's a somewhat battered 1596 Faerie Queene with a pretty embroidered cover with flowers and "E. T." > If only those initials were 'E.K.'... > > Do you know anything about the embroidered binding - is it contemporary? In my experience embroidered bindings for the non-aristocracy tend to be almost always on prayerbooks and psalters - it's quite unusual to find one on a work of imaginative literature. Was someone smuggling the FQ into church to read during the sermons? > > Helen > > > Helen Vincent > Senior Curator > Rare Book Collections > > Tel: +44 (0) 131 623 3894 > Fax: +44 (0) 131 623 3888 > Email: [log in to unmask] > > National Library of Scotland > George IV Bridge > Edinburgh > EH1 1EW > Scotland > > > > From: Sidney-Spenser Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of anne prescott > Sent: 11 July 2010 15:46 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: A washingtonpost.com article from: [log in to unmask] > > Wow. What a story! It has a very strange protagonist that wouldn't be credible in the movie version, although in such a version it would be wonderful to see the Folger staff being so clever. And I'm impressed by the self-control and silence on the part of the people there. I know you have a family connection with Durham, Roger, since your daughter got a degree there. > Speaking of the Folger, I hope to donate two volumes to the Folger that might interest this list (I only just e-mailed Gail Paster and haven't heard back because it's a weekend). I swear I bought them fair and square from an honest dealer and that unlike my poor now returned 1609 Faerie Queene it's not stolen. It's a somewhat battered 1596 Faerie Queene with a pretty embroidered cover with flowers and "E. T." (yes, I know--Spielberg) and an equally defective 1596 one with Books I-III. What's interesting are the many, many scribbles and a 1777 poem to Spenser by a lawyer, John Sheridan. I have an article about it in Spenser Studies vol. 23. Since they now just sit there on a shelf, I thought that the time had come to find them a good home, esp. as the volume with the more interesting marginalia needs to be what Georgianna calls "stabilized." I know the feeling well. Anyway, they should be there in a while, in January maybe if my tax guy says that's smart, and they are well worth a look for any Spenserian finding his/herself at the Folger. One owner of one of the volumes has pasted in the Letter to Ralegh and some of the sonnets. One has "Walter Raleigh 1591" inscribed and then partially erased, as though some later owner--or the writer--had had second thoughts, or maybe a fit of honesty. If the Folger accepts them, do enjoy. Not the First Folio, but fun. Anne. > > On Jul 11, 2010, at 8:26 AM, Roger Kuin wrote: > >> E-mail >> This page was sent to you by: [log in to unmask] >> Message from sender: Thanks to Germaine Warkentin for this. 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