| Copynotes: | Front cover detached; t.p. detached; tied; wanting leaf 2[par.]8; copy is misbound: "Faerie queene", parts 1-2; "Prosopoia"; "Shepheards calendar"; "Colin Clouts come home againe"; "The letter to Raleigh"; pagination and collation reflect correct order
"Faerie queene" part 1 is a mixed sheet copy: Quires C, E-G, K, M are in the 1609 printing; quires A, B, D, I, L, N, O, P in the 1613-17 printing; Quire Q is mixed, leaf Q2 is from 1613-17 printing, the rest from the 1609 printing
Contemporary binding: Full calf; previously rebacked
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| Editionnotes: | Title within ornamental border. Cf. McKerrow, R.B. & F.S. Ferguson. Title -page borders used in England and Scotland, 1485-1640, no. 212
Signatures: [par.]2 A6(-A1) B-Q6 R-2H6 2[par.]8 2A-E6 2F4 3A4 3B-C2 4 A-C6 3D-F6 2G-L6 2M2
Leaves 2H6 (end of "Faerie queene" part 1), 2[par.]8 (end of "Letter"), 2F4 (end of "Shepheards calendar") are blank
Pages 8 & 32, 2nd sequence ("Faerie queene" part 1) misnumbered 10 & 23
Printer's name from STC
Leaf A1 preceding text of the part 1 "Faerie queene" is blank, cancelled; still present in some copies
This copy corresponds to Johnson 19, group III ("Faerie queene" part 1, 2 in 2nd printings, between 1613-1617, and 1612-1613 respectively)
"The collected editions of Spenser's works commonly designated as the 1611 and 1617 folios ... were made up by issuing as a
single volume a number of separate sections which had been printed independently at periods often several years apart. A general
title page was prefixed to these issues of the collected works, bearing the date 1611 or 1617, but these dates are in many instances at variance with the dates of the component parts" --Cf. Johnson
See Johnson for details of the separate printings
"Prosopoia" has imprint: London, Printed by H.L. and are sold by G. Latham."
Several of the internal title pages of the different works have printers devices used by Humphrey Lownes. Cf. Johnson for identifications
Colophon: 2H5 verso: "16012 [sic] London, Printed by H.L. for Matthew Lownes."
With woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces; printed in double columns
"The faerie queene", part 1 (Books 1-3) 2nd printing, between 1613-1617 (STC 23084); "The faerie queene", part 2 (Books 4-6, and The canto of mutabilitie) in 1612/13 printing (STC 23084): t.p. and register begin with R1, t.p. dated 1613, some copies dated 1612; "The letter to Raleigh, the commendatory poems, and dedicatory sonnets" in 1611 printing (STC 23086.3);
"The shepehards calendar" in 1611 printing (STC 23093.5); "Prosopoia, or, Mother Hubbard's tale", (STC 23087.5) second printing, with no imprint date, probably after 1620, but no later than 1620; "Colin Clouts come home againe" in 1611 printing, internal t.p.s are dated 1611 (STC 23077.3)
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