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Franklin p. 240 Franklin says that, along with the "Minor Poems" this is the
masterpiece among the impressive Ashendene folios. He says,

Spenser's large folios were the last in Subiaco + the best.
- Subiaco type - first used - Lo Inferno di Dante, 1902.
- in some cases the initials were not printed but instead
spaces were left for the scribe to add them by hand
afterwards.
- 2nd type face added in 1925 -Ptolemy - used in the
Don Quixote published in 1927.
-total of 10 types used at the press.
7. Subiaco, Great Primer Roman
8. Ptolemy " " "
These 2 faces were especially designed for the Ashendene Press.
- The 6 books which Spencer completed (of the projected 12)
exhibit the virtues of Holiness, Temperance, Chastity, Frenship
Justice + Courtesy.
40 - 1590 - first 3 books published.
40 - 1596 - the 6 book Faerie Queene was published with some revisions in
the 1st part + a changed ending to part 3
folio. 1609 - the so-called "Mutability Cantos" first appeared.

XXXV 1925 Spenser's Minor Poems - This book is the last of the
Ashendene Press folios printed in the Subiaco type.
- The Faerie Queene was conceived as a work of 12 books,
each of which was to have portrayed, in the person of its
leading knight, one of the 12 private moral virtues: the
work as a whole to be unified by the figure of Prince Arthur,
the 'image of a brave knight', in whom all these virtues
were perfectec. Gloriana, the Faerie Queene, signifies both
the abstract concept of Glory + Queen Elizabeth in
particular. Drawing heavily from the chivalric romances, Spencer
has Prince Arthur see hes in a vision + determine to seek
her out in Faeryland.