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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, 1611, D 1040

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: William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections, McMaster U Library
Shelfmark: D 1040
Published by: H[umphrey]. L[ownes]
Published for: Mathew Lownes
Published Location: London
Published date: 1611
Copynotes: In correspondence of summer 2009, librarians identify this copy as ESTC S121946. Imperfect: wanting t.p., p. 1-8, 35-46, 55-58, 123-126, 179-182, 223-224, 235-246, 307-308, 317-318, The shepheards calender, Prosopopoia, and the last four poems of Complaints; some pages damaged with loss of text. Imperfect: wanting Petrarches visions (last poem of Complaints). the title page for FQ part 2 has the date 1613. Correspondence of 6/11/10: D1040: Title page: no date on title page 1st part, page B3r: Yo~ug knight 2nd part, title page: 1613 2nd part, end colophon: "16012" Shepeardes Calendar: no calendar Poems after Colin Clout: (all 1611) Prothalamion, Amoretti & Epithalamion, Foure Hymes, Daphnaida, Complaints Letter to Raleigh: Alle- Prosopopoia or Mother Hubberd's Tale: not here
Editionnotes: Printed by H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes, Anno Dom. 1611 [i.e. 1612 or 1613] 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 "Yoūg 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 either 1612 or 1613 (stop-press variant). The R3r catchword now reads "And". Pagination and register are continuous. In some copies (such as the one on the microfilm) the 1612/1613 title page has been canceled instead of the 1609 one. The last leaf is blank.
Record Author: NS 6/19/2009; NS 6/11/10
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