SPENSER ON IRELAND SPENSER, EDMUND. A View of the State of Ireland, as it was in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. Written in a Dialogue between Eudoxus and Irenaeus. [2], xxii, 258, [18] pages. 12mo, contemporary calf, spine darkened, chipped at top, lettering piece off, front joint cracked, cords intact; contents clean; bookplate. Dublin: Laurence Flin and Ann Watts, 1763
spenser's only prose work, "a dialogue discussing the brutal measures needed to establish a stable colonial regime in the country" (DLB), where he spent most of the last 20 years of his life as a civil servant and landowner. The book was originally published in 1633, nearly a quarter century after his death.
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