| Title: | The faerie queen: The shepheards calendar: together with the other works of England's arch-poet, Edm. Spenser: collected into one volume, and carefully corrected.
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| Repository: | Queen's U Belfast
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| Shelfmark: | Percy/683
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| Published by: | H[umphrey]. L[ownes]
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| Published for: | Matthew Lownes
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| Published Location: | London
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| Published date: | 1611
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| Copynotes: | In correspondence of 6/1/10, librarian reports the following constituent parts:
-The General Title page and conjugate dedication to Queen Elizabeth is dated 1611
-1st part of the Faerie Queene: No title page or colophon, but the stanza reads “Young Knight”
-2nd part of the Faerie Queene: Title page is dated 1612 & colophon reads 16012
-Shepheardes Calender: Title page is dated 1611
-Between Shepheardes Calendar & Colin Clouts is: Prosopopoia or Mother Hubberts Tale (Printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes. Anno Dom. 1613)
-Colin Clouts Come Home Again and shorter poems: Our copy contains (in order): Prothalamion (dated 1611); Epithalamion (dated 1611); Foure Hymnes (dated 1611); Daphnaida (dated 1611); Complaints (dated 1611); The tears of the muses (dated 1611); Virgils gnat; Ruines of Rome by Belay; Muiopotmos (dated 1611); Visions of the worlds vanitie; The visions of Bellay; Visions of Petrarch;
-Letter to Raleigh and dedicatory sonnets: “Alle-” marks it as a 1611;
Shelfmark comes from the copy originally being part of the library of Bishop Thomas Percy. It contains a folded page of notes (e-mail scans available).
The book is well illustrated with woodcuts; head and tail pieces; initials; the title is within a woodcut border which on the left hand side is pastoral and on the right hand side darker and suggestive.
Colophon at the end of the Faerie Queen gives the date '16012'.
There are a few annotations in Percy's hand; the signature of Thomas Ward (1652-1708), controversialist, is on the page facing The Shepheards calender; 9 is on the left hand side of the title page and 4 on the right.
The binding is very worn, the spine torn, the front cover loose; the text is grubby and appears water stained.
Most of the minor works have separate title pages, different dates and are unpaged though they have signatures.
A loose folded sheet with two and a half pages of 'Notatu digna in Spencer's Fairy Queen' is enclosed; the right hand corner is torn amd mended with a piece of paper and a common pin; a note in Percy's hand states that 'nothing is lost by the torn part'
Percy's signature is on the front free endpaper
From the library of Thomas Percy
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| Editionnotes: | A third "reissue" of the 1609 edition, though both parts are now actually in later settings. Part 1 still has the 1611 cancel title page and conjugate dedication of the first reissue (STC 23083.3). The text of part 1 has now been reset (the 1615 date conjectured by STC); B3r stanza 1 begins "Young Knight". Part 2 still has separate title page dated 1612 or 1613 (stop-press variants) and R3r catchword reads "And". Pagination and register are continous. The last leaf is blank. Ideally issued with STC 23086.3, 23093.5, 23077.3, and 23087, though some copies have parts from the 1617 editions. Match subsidiary parts separately.
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| Record Author: | Catherine Blose; NS 6/1/10
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| Record Source: | Diarmuid Kennedy
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| Siglum: | QUB_WKS_001
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