The faerie queene : Disposed into twelue bookes, fashioning XII. morall vertues
The Faerie Queene is a 1596 London edition of Edmund Spenser's epic poem in twelve books, printed for publisher William Ponsonby and printed by John Wolfe, aimed at a literate English readership. The four pictures are woodcut ornamental headpieces and tailpieces: symmetrical scrolling borders framing a central mask or female head, with cornucopia-like fruit clusters and feathered plumes, a useful model for classical strapwork and Renaissance decorative symmetry.
