The works of Edmund Spenser [...] with the principal illustrations of several commentators. To which are added notes [...] by the Rev Henry John Todd [...]
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London: printed for F.C. and J. Rivington, T. Payne, Cadell and Davies, and R.H. Evans, 1805. 8 vols. 8vo. pp. [xiv], cxcii, 213; [ii], ccxx, 216; [ii], 472; [ii], 542; [ii], 480; [ii], 486; [ii], 564; [ii] 581 + engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved by Joseph Collyer. Contemporary full diced russia, gilt ruled with fully gilt spines, lettered direct, several joints skilfully renewed; booksellers ticket of Calignant, Paris. A handsome example of the best and most beautiful - according to Brunet - edition of Spensers works. Todds Poetical Works of John Milton (1801) became the standard edition of Milton for some decades. Here Todd assembled critical material by John Hughes, Joseph Spence, Thomas Wharton and John Upton, and contributed his own biography of Spenser as well as additional notes. Writing in the Edinburgh Review (vol 13, 1806) Sir Walter Scott was less than complimentary. He described Todds style as of a dry, sober and sleepy cast and was critical of his decision to reprint the notes of earlier commentators in full at the foot of each page, rather than extracting their spirit and essence himself, especially where they contradict one another (five to one would be odds even against Culley or the Game Chicken and Spenser stood in danger of being overwhelmed), but Scott did allow that the text is correctly and judiciously edited. One can sympathise with Scotts rejection of variorum editions, but in the present work Todd had compiled a comprehensive survey of Spenserian scholarship as it existed two hundred years after the poets death. Brunet V, 487. OCLC: 2917268 Book
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- The works of Edmund Spenser [...] with the principal illustrations of several commentators. To which are added notes [...] by the Rev Henry John Todd [...]
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- Spenser, Edmund:
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- printed for F.C. and J. Rivington, T. Payne, Cadell and Davies, and R.H. Evans
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- London
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- 1805
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