University of Glasgow Library:
Front binding of 1669 edition of John Milton's 'Paradise Lost' held by University of Glasgow Library Special Collections Department.
University of Glasgow Library:
Title page with ownership inscription.
University of Glasgow Library:
First page of text with annotation added in pencil.
University of Glasgow Library:
Book 4, Lines 146-209. Satan entering the Garden of Eden and sitting in the Tree of Life in the form of a bird.
University of Glasgow Library:
Book Four, Lines 273-337. Satan sees Adam and Eve for the first time.
University of Glasgow Library:
Manuscript inscription: 'Perlegit Hunc Librum Johannes Holmes'.
University of Glasgow Library:
Manuscript inscription: 'Perlegit Johannes Holmes 1770', ie. read through by John Holmes in 1770.
University of Glasgow Library:
Book One, Line 263.
University of Glasgow Library:
Front binding of first edition of 'The Faerie Queene'.
University of Glasgow Library:
Inscription on front flyleaf: 'Spencer it was who introduced the fashion of wearing spencers - was this really the case?' - 'Yes.'
University of Glasgow Library:
Title page of the first edition, 1590, of 'The Faerie Queene' held by University of Glasgow Library Special Collections Department.
University of Glasgow Library:
Pencil annotations on first page and throughout.
University of Glasgow Library:
Marginal notes in brown ink.
University of Glasgow Library:
Manuscript note in margin: 'Shakespeare'.
University of Glasgow Library:
Manuscript addition: 'God save the King'.
University of Glasgow Library:
Final stanzas of Book Three, 1590 edition.
University of Glasgow Library:
Front binding of 1596 edition of the first three books of 'The Faerie Queene' held by University of Glasgow Library Special Collections Department.
University of Glasgow Library:
Ownership inscriptions on front flyleaf: 'Carlingford 1874' and, below, 'W. A. Tyrrell'.
University of Glasgow Library:
Title Page of 1596 edition of Books One to Three of 'The Faerie Queene'.
University of Glasgow Library:
Dedication to Queen Elizabeth I.
University of Glasgow Library:
Woodcut illustration in 1596 edition of 'The Faerie Queene'.
University of Glasgow Library:
Final stanzas of Book Three, 1596 edition held by University of Glasgow Library Special Collections Department.
University of Glasgow Library:
Title page of the first edition, 1596, of Books Four to Six of 'The Faerie Queene' held by University of Glasgow Library Special Collections Department.
University of Glasgow Library:
Line of text from Book Three, Canto Four.
University of Glasgow Library:
Dilapidated copy of Sir Philip Sidney's 'Arcadia'.
University of Glasgow Library:
Beginning of second book of 'Arcadia'.
University of Glasgow Library:
Double page opening of text with ownership inscription in right margin of page 143.
University of Glasgow Library:
Beginning of Fifth Book from Sidney's 'Arcadia'.
University of Glasgow Library:
Title page of additional sixth book, written by Richard Bellings to complete Sidney's work and originally published separately in 1624.
University of Glasgow Library:
Additional Sonnets by Sir Philip Sidney included in this edition of 'Arcadia'.