| Copynotes: | Head- and tail-pieces; initials; vols. 2-6 have title vignettes.
Edited by John Hughes.
Contents:
Vol. 1. Dedication / John Hughes. The life of Mr. Edmund Spenser. An essay on allegorical poetry. Remarks on the Fairy Queen. Remarks on the Shepherd's Calendar, &c. A glossary explaining the Old and Obscure wirds in Spenser's Works. A letter of the Author explaining his design, in the poem of the Fairy-Queen. Verses to the Author of the Fairy-Queen. The first book of the Fairy-Queen -- Vol. 2. The second book of the Fairy-Queen. The third book of the Fairy-Queen -- Vol. 3. The fourth book of the Fairy-Queen. The fifth book of the Fairy-Queen -- Vol. 4. The sixth book of the Fairy-Queen. The shepherds calendar, containing twelve Æglogues, proportionable to the twelve months. Colin Clout's Come home again. Virgil's Gnat -- Vol. 5. Prosopopoia; or, Mother Hubbard's Tale. Amoretti, or Sonnets. Poems. Prothalamion; or a spousal verse. Epithalamion. Four hymns. Daphnaida: an elegy. Muiopotmos: or, The fate of the butterfly. The tears of the Muses. The visions of Petrarch. The visions of Bellay. The ruins of Rome. Visions of the world's vanity. Astrophel: a pastoral elegy. The mourning Muse of Thestylis. A pastoral Æglogue upon the death of Sir Philip Sidney Kt. &c. An elegy; or, Friend's passion for his Astrophel. An epitaph upon the Right Honourable Sir Philip Sidney Knight, Lord Governour of Flushing -- Vol. 6. The ruines of time.Britain's Ida. A view of the state of Ireland. Calendarium Pastorale, sive Æglogæ Duodecim. Letters between Mr. Spenser, and Mr. Gabriel Harvey.
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