Word: spenser
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...early work of great value is the first edition of Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queene." This has the dedication: "To the most Mightie and Magnificent Empresse Elizabeth, by the grace of God QUeene of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. Her most humble Servant: Ed Spenser." This copy is full of misprints and mistakes in the numbering of the pages; on page 332 blank spaces have been left for the insertion of Welsh words...
Except in Japan, TIME knows of no earlier use of Tycoon. But as many an oldster recalls, there appeared in 1882 an extremely popular comic opera by Willard Spenser entitled The Little Tycoon...
...edition of Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan" published in 1924 by Constable and Company, and a magnificent edition of Spenser's "Faerie Queen" printed in 1923 by the Ashendene Press have been placed in the exhibit of modern books. Both of these volumes are from the gift of Mr. Hofer...
...gift of 260 volumes from the library of W. A. White '63, made by members of his family and other friends of Harvard. Among the interesting books in this group are a copy of Sir Phillip Sidney's "Defense of Poesic" published in 1595 and a copy of Spenser's "Prothalamion" printed...
...turned aside suddenly from the exciting whirl of business and politics to adore alone, in some inner room, the sensuous harmonies of Spenser. He dallied dangerously with court beauties; and then went to meditate for hours upon the attributes of the Deity in the cold church of St. Paul...