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The faerie qveen. The shepheards calendar. Together with the other works of England’s archpoët, Edm. Spenser: Collected into one volume, and carefully corrected., 1617, L 821.3 S74f 1617

Title: The faerie qveen. The shepheards calendar. Together with the other works of England’s archpoët, Edm. Spenser: Collected into one volume, and carefully corrected.
Repository: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern U Library
Shelfmark: L 821.3 S74f 1617
Published by: H[umphrey] L[ownes]
Published for: Mathew Lownes
Published Location: London
Published date: 1617
Copynotes: Title within woodcut border; head and tail pieces; initials; printed in double columns. Colophon (on verso of p. 363, at end of Two cantos of Mvtabilitie): Most of the minor works have special title-pages, and are unpaged. "Our edition of this text has the additional Lownes' texts, most with separate title pages, printed between 1613 and 1617; the contents are listed in the record in our online catalog. ...These are included in the OCLC record for the 1609 edition." (Correspondence of July 15, 2009). The faerie qveen -- Shepheards calender -- Prosopopoia -- Letter of the avthors -- Colin Clovts come home againe -- Mourning muse of Thestylis -- Pastorall aeglogue vpon the deth of Sir Philip Sidney -- Elegie -- Prothalamion -- Amoretti and Epithalamion -- Fovre Hymnes -- Daphnaida -- Complaints containing svndry small poems of the vvorlds vanitie. Ruines of time. Teares of the mvses. Virgils gnat. Ruines of Rome. Muiopotmos. Visions of the worlds vanitie. Bellayes visions. Petrarchses visions. "I have examined our 1617 edition of Spenser's Works (L821.3 S74f 1617), and all of the points for the publication date of 1617 are precisely as you describe below with explicit dates for 1617 or 1613 as outlined by you. The corrections which reveal the later printing are also present. Our copy has the "16012" misprint at the end of the Faerie Queene. We have the 1613 variant for Prosopopoia" (Correspondence of 6/14/10).
Editionnotes: 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.
Record Author: NS 7/15/2009; NS 6/14/10
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