| 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: | Cambridge U King's College
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| Shelfmark: | Keynes.C.10.08
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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: | Binding: good. Pages in need of conservation.
Handwritten on back board: "Lady" (rest of name obscured) and "Brown 5.52 rebnd leather 13/6."
Title page stamped: "F.W. Hohler 1840".
Inscription on fly-leaf: "William [Everet?] with Jack M. Hohlers kindest regards.
Bookplate of John Waterhouse Halifax.
Cuttings from bookseller's catalogues inside front cover.
The Faerie queen [books I-III] --The second part of the Faerie queene: containing the fourth, fift, & sixt booke. 1612. Two cantos of Mutabilitie -- A letter of the authors, expounding his whole intention in the course of this worke ... To ... Sir Walter Raleigh. -- The Shepheards calender: containing tvvelve aeglogues, proportionable to the twelve moneths, 1611.
Prosopopoia or Mother Hubberds tale -- Colin Clouts come home againe. Astrophell [etc.] -- Prothalamion or A spousall verse. 1611. -- Amoretti. 1611. -- Epithalamion. 1611. -- Foure Hymnes. 1611. -- Daphnaida. An elegie upon the death of the noble and vertuous Douglas Howard, daughter and heire of Henrie Lord Howard .. 1611. Complaints containing sundry small poemes of the worlds vanitie. 1611: The ruines of time - The teares of the Muses. 1611. -- Virgils gnat -- The Ruines of Rome: by Bellay -- Muiopotmos, or The fate of the Butterfly, 1611 -- Visions of the worlds vanitie. -- The visions of Bellay -- The visions of Petrarch
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| Editionnotes: | Signatures : A⁶ (-A1 + pi²) B-P⁶ Q⁴ R-2H⁶ [par]⁸ A-E⁶ F⁴ A⁸ A-L⁶ M².
Error in register: 2C3 signed S3.
Printer's name from STC.
'The first collected edition.' Cf. Scrase and Croft.
In verse.
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 "Youαg 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 1612. The R3r catchword now reads "And".
Issued with STC 23086.3, 23093.5, 23077.3, and 23087.
Colophon (on verso of p. 363, at end of Two cantos of Mutabilitie): 16012. At London, Printed by H. L. for Mathew Lownes.
Title within woodcut border: head- and tail-pieces; initials;printed in double columns.
Most of the minor works have special title-pages, and are unpaged.
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| Record Author: | irc; checked by EJS 10/28/09
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| Record Source: | correspondence, library catalogue, ESTC
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| Siglum: | CKC_WKS_004
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