William Ponsonby (publisher)
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William Ponsonby was a prominent London publisher of the Elizabethan era. Active in the 1577–1603 period, Ponsonby published the works of Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, and other members of the Si
Title page, Fowre Hymnes, by Edmund Spenser, published by Richard Field (as indicated by the use of his distinctive printer's mark) for William Ponsonby, London, 1596
Edmund Spenser
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Edmund Spenser was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsm
William Ponsonby (publisher)
…William Ponsonby (1546? – 1604) was a prominent London publisher of the Elizabethan era. Active in the 1577–1603 period, Ponsonby published the works of Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, and other members of the Sidney circle; he has been called "the leading literary publisher of Elizabethan times." Ponsonby completed…
Edmund Spenser oil painting
Title Page of a 1617 Edition of The Shepheardes Calender printed by Matthew Lownes, often bound with the complete works printed in 1611 or 1617.
The epic poem The Faerie Queene frontispiece, printed by William Ponsonby in 1590.