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The Works of that Famous English Poet, Mr. Edmund Spencer. Viz. The Faery Queen, The Shepherds Calendar, the History of Ireland, & Whereunto is added, An Account of his Life: With other new Additions Never before in print. , 1679, PR2350 1679 (c. 2)

Title: The Works of that Famous English Poet, Mr. Edmund Spencer. Viz. The Faery Queen, The Shepherds Calendar, the History of Ireland, & Whereunto is added, An Account of his Life: With other new Additions Never before in print.
Repository: U of California-Davis Library
Shelfmark: PR2350 1679 (c. 2)
Published by: Henry Hills
Published for: Jonathan Edwin
Published Location: London
Published date: 1679
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Editionnotes: ESTC: The editorship has been attributed, probably erroneously to Dryden. Cf. Johnson, F.R. A critical bibliography of the works of Edmund Spenser, 1933, p. 53-56. The fairy queen part 2, Mother Hubberd’s tale, and The shepherd’s calendar each have separate title pages, dated 1678. There are several pagination sequences. Register is continuous. Includes: "Brittain’s Ida", first attributed to Spenser by Thomas Walkley in 1628; now generally attributed to Phineas Fletcher. Includes Theodore Bathurst’s translation of The shepheardes calendar. Title page is in red and black. Title words "The faery ... &c." are gathered by a left brace. Frontis. plate signed: R White sculp. Text is continuous despite numerous mispaginations.
Record Author: Cait Martinez 6/24/09
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