| 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.
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| Repository: | U of Nottingham
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| Shelfmark: | PR2350 .C79
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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: | Frontis. plate signed: R White sculp.
Library copy has plate of Spenser bound in signed Geo: Vertue Sculp. 1727, and lacks the [2] p. between p. 258 and 369 (publisher's advertisements).
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| Editionnotes: | "Licensed, October 24th 1678. Roger L'Estrange".
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.
Text is continuous despite numerous mispaginations.
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| Record Author: | NS 7/7/09; 6/16/10; Elena Galkina 04/30/2018
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| Record Source: | Repository catalog
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