| Title: | The faerie queen: The shepheards calendar: together with the other works of England’s arch-poët, Edm. Spenser: collected into one volume, and carefully corrected.
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| Repository: | Oxford U Bodleian Library
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| Shelfmark: | Douce S 817
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| Published by: | H[umphrey] L[ownes]
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| Published for: | Mathew Lownes
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| Published Location: | London
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| Published date: | 1611
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| Copynotes: | Douce S 817 is one of the paradigm copies of Johnson's Group II (p. 46).
In correspondence of 5/28/10, Bodleian librarians list the following constituent parts:
The Faerie Queene, 1609, ‘Yoũg’. Second part, 1613
Prosopopoia, 1613
Shepheards Calender, 1611
Colin Clouts, (1611)
-lacks a gen. t.p. and Letter to Raleigh (Correspondence of 6/10/10).
Johnson notes that this copy has "the 1609 Faerie Queene title-page at the beginning instead of the 1611 general title-page" (46).
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| Editionnotes: | See Johnson on Group II (p. 46)
In verse.
Printer’s name from STC.
A second reissue of the 1609 edition. Part 1 still has the 1611 cancel title page and conjugate dedication of the first reissue (STC 23083.3); B3r stanza 1 begins "Yoūg knight". Q5-6 of part 1, bearing respectively the 1609 title page and first leaf of text of part 2, are canceled. Part 2 has been reprinted, with a title page dated either 1612 or 1613 (stop-press variant). The R3r catchword now reads "And". Pagination and register are continuous. In some copies (such as the one on the microfilm) the 1612/1613 title page has been canceled instead of the 1609 one.
The last leaf is blank.
Signatures: A⁶(-A1+pi²) B-P⁶ Q⁴ R-2H⁶.
Issued with STC 23086.3, 23093.5, 23077.3, and 23087.
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| Record Author: | NS 6/10/10
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| Record Source: | Johnson
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