| 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: | U of Iowa
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| Shelfmark: | PR2350.C17
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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: | 1617
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| Copynotes: | Received conservation treatment in 2003, including a new binding (buckram cloth binding).
Just flipping through it, the book is in very good condition, with only a little staining from age, some mostly illegible pencil notes in the margins, and a single piece of tape on page 326. It opens very easily.
Correspondence of 6/16/10 (in order of appearance):
Gen. t.p.: 1617
Pt. 1 FQ: There is no colophon. Page b3r is printed as “Young Knight” – presumably, the later printing.
Pt. 2 FQ: 1613; colophon has misprint of 16012
SC: 1617
Prosopopoia: 1613
Letter to Raleigh: First line of text reads “Allego” – presumably 1617.
CCCHA:1617
The book is in very good condition, with only a little staining from age, some mostly illegible pencil notes in the margins, and a single piece of tape on page 326.
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| Editionnotes: | Woodcuts: t.p. border, head and tailpieces, initials
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.
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| Record Author: | Cori Perdue 8/21/09; ER 9/10/09; EG 07/04/2018
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| Record Source: | Repository catalog; correspondence
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| Siglum: | UOI_WKS_001
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