Binding and fly/endleaves

Photo used courtesy of LSU Special Collections

The binding on this edition of the The Fairie Queene was replaced in the early 1900’s so there is no information on the original (personal communication, E. Smyth April 11, 2012) . 

The flyleaves are from the original binding and consist of just one extra sheet at the front and end of the book.   The end sheets were replaced with the binding so are of a style and quality natural to the early 20^th century rather than 1590 when the book was published.