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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., 1617, 4° Rawl. 542

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.
Repository: Oxford U Bodleian Library
Shelfmark: 4° Rawl. 542
Published by: H[umphrey] L[ownes]
Published for: Mathew Lownes
Published Location: London
Published date: 1617
Copynotes: Another set, comprising The shepheards calender, the letter to Ralegh, the commendatory poems and dedicatory sonnets, and sig. A1-E2 of Colin Clouts come home again and other minor poems. Cropped and mutilated. In correspondence of 5/28/10, Bodleian librarians report the following constituent parts of 4o Rawl. 542: 1. Shepheards Calender, 1617 2. Letter of the authors, 1617 3. Colin Clouts (Prothalamion, Amoretti & Epithalamion only, 1617) No general t.p.
Editionnotes: In verse. Printer’s name from STC. The colophon is dated "16012" [sic]. The second part has separate title page dated 1612; pagination and register are continuous. Variant: this title page dated 1613. The last leaf is blank. A reissue of STC 23084, with cancel general title page and dedication. Signatures: A⁶(-A1+pi²) B-P⁶ Q⁴ R-2H⁶. Issued with STC 23086.7, 23094, 23077.7, and 23087. Some copies have STC 23087.5 in place of the last.
Record Author: irc; checked by EJS 11/4/09; NS 6/10/10
Record Source: OLIS
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Siglum: OXB_WKS_009
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