| Copynotes: | Penn Libraries copy is STC 23084 bound as issued with STC 23086.3, 23093.5, 23077.3, and 23087.
Penn Libraries copy: "Prosopoia. Or Mother Hubberds tale" (STC 23087) has special t.p. dated 1613.
Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaf 2H6 (blank) wanting; leaf ²F4 (blank) wanting; leaf [par.]8 (blank) wanting; leaves [par.]4 and [par.]5 bound in each other's place.
Penn Libraries copy has "A letter of the authors" (STC 23086.3), usually found after "The second part of The faerie queene", bound in at end of book; front cover and front free endpaper detached; title leaf and first preliminary leaf detached; title leaf mended at inner margin; blank leaves inserted before leaves A2, ²A1 and ³A1; dampstaining at inner margin of gatherings N-S; a few ms. marginal marks and notes.
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| Editionnotes: | Printer's name from STC.
Signatures: A⁶(-A1+pi²) B-P⁶ Q⁴ R-2H⁶ [par.]⁸, ²A-E⁶ F⁴, ³A-L⁶ M², ⁴A⁸.
Leaves 2H6, [par.]8 and ²F4 are blanks.
Errors in pagination: page 8 (first count) numbered 10; page 32 (first count) numbered 23.
Title within ornamental woodcut border (Mc.K. & F. no. 212); woodcut devices, initials, head- and tail-pieces.
Text primarily in double columns.
A third "reissue" of the 1609 edition of The faerie queen, 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". Part 2 has special t.p. dated 1612 but pagination and signatures are continuous through both parts. Cf. ESTC.
"Ideally issued with STC 23086.3, 23093.5, 23077.3, and 23087, though some copies have parts from the 1617 editions."-- ESTC.
"In this edition [of "A letter of the authors", ESTC S123123] the first line of text ends: Alle-."--ESTC.
"The shepheardes calender" (STC 23093.5) has special t.p. dated 1611 and separate pagination and signatures.
"Colin Clouts come home againe" has special t.p. without date; "Prothalamion or A spousall verse", "Amoretti and Epithalamion", "Epithalamion", "Foure hymnes", "Daphnaida", "Complaints containing sundry small poemes of the worlds vanitie", "The teares of the Muses" and "Muiopotmos, or The fate of the butterfly" each has special t.p. dated 1611. Pagination and signatures are continuous through all of these works (STC 23077.3).
"Prosopoia. Or Mother Hubberds tale" (STC 23087) has special t.p. dated 1612. Variant: imprint date is 1613.
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