Abstract
IN HIS A Reference Guide to Edmund Spenser (Chicago, 1923), Dr. Frederic I. Carpenter included among the topics for further study (p. 305) Sources of the Woodcuts in the Theatre of Worldlings. Three decades have gone by, but the suggestion remains largely ignored. A few valuable comments and several ex-cathedra pronouncements by connoisseurs cannot take the place of the thorough review and investigation which, we may be sure, the late Dr. Carpenter had in mind. One phase of the subject can be answered without hesitation: The woodcuts in Van der Noot's work-the first emblem book issued in England and notable besides for containing Spenser's earliest verse-translations-have their source in the etchings made for the editio princeps in the Flemish tongue. Another aspect of our inquiry concerns the identity of the artist-engraver who designed and very likely executed the original prints, since he is, in a very special sense, the source of the woodcuts. The first edition is the Dutch Het Theatrel published without
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