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unusual facts about Faerie Queene



Edward Henry Corbould

He also produced designs for book illustration: in the Abbotsford edition of the Waverley Novels (Cadell, 1841–6), and in A & C Black's edition of the same works (1852–3); Spenser's Faerie Queene and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Routledge, 1853); Martin Farquhar Tupper's Proverbial Philosophy (1854); and Robert Aris Willmott's Poets of the Nineteenth Century (1857), and Merrie Days of England (1858–9).


see also

Peddler

Warmonger, recorded since 1590 (Spenser's "Faerie Queene"), likely more widespread than any of the literal uses