| Evidence: | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 30 March 1751:]
'I never was master of any edition of Spenser but Rowe's, which, upon my first reading it, appeared to be published in a very hasty and careless manner: a very great number of faults I could discover and correct, without comparing with any other edition. Some time since I borrowed the folio of 1609; but it was not till lately that I could get a sight of the first quarto of 1590, which was published in Spenser's lifetime: and I proposed this summer, if I should have life and health, to collate the three together, -- as indeed I have begun to do [discusses this editorial project and related issues further]'. |
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| Reader: | Thomas Edwards |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | n/a |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Edmund Spenser |
| Title: | ?The Works of Mr Edmund Spenser |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | ?London: J. Tonson, 1715. |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 28316 | |
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| Author: | n/a | |
| Editor: | Anna Laetitia Barbauld | |
| Title: | Correspondence of Samuel Richardson [...] Selected from the original manuscripts, bequeathed by him to his family | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1804 | |
| Vol: | 3 | |
| Page: | 14 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Anna Laetitia Barbauld (ed.), Correspondence of Samuel Richardson [...] Selected from the original manuscripts, bequeathed by him to his family (London, 1804), 3, p. 14, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28316, accessed: 26 April 2024 | |
| Edwards appears to be confusing the 1715 Tonson edition of Spenser (edited by Hughes) confused with the 1709 Tonson Shakespeare, the latter of which was edited by Nicholas Rowe. |
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