| Title: | The works of that famous English poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser. Viz.: The Faery queen, The shepherds calendar, the history of Ireland, &c. Whereunto is added, an account of his life; with other new additions never before in print. Licensed, October 24th 1678. Roger L’Estrange.
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| Repository: | Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern U Library
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| Shelfmark: | L 821.3 S74 1679
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| Published by: | Henry Hills
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| Published for: | Jonathan Edwin
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| Published Location: | London
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| Published date: | 1679
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| Copynotes: | 391, 258, 369-391 p. 33 x 22 cm.
Signatures: leaf (t.-p.) unsigned, A-Z⁴, Aa-Zz⁴, Aaa-Zzz⁴, Aaaa-Iiii⁴ (Aaaa lettered Aaa), Kkkk¹, Aaaaa-Ccccc⁴.
Most of the pieces have special title-pages dated 1678; Prosopopoia and The shepherds calendar have also separate paging.
The shepherds calendar has numerous errors in paging. A catalogue of books printed for Jonathan Edwin (1 leaf) inserted after p. 258.
"Brittain’s Ida", first ascribed to Spenser in 1628 by Thomas Walkley, is now generally assigned to Phineas Fletcher.
A summary of the life of Mr. Edmond Spenser.--The Fairy queen.--Two cantos of mutability.--Prosopopoia.--The shepherds calendar.--Colin Clouts come home again.--Prothalamion.--Amoretti and Epithalamion.--Four hymns.--Daphnaida: an elegy.--Complaints containing sundry small poems of the words vanity.--Brittain’s Ida.--Calendarium pastorale [Theodore Bathurst’s Latin version of The shepherds calendar]--Glossary.
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| Editionnotes: | 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.
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| Record Author: | NS 7/15/09; NS 6/11/10
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