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The Faerie queen; The shepheard's calendar; together with the other works of England's arch-poet, Edm. Spencer/ collected into one volume, and carefully corrected., 1617, PR 2358. A1 1617

Title: The Faerie queen; The shepheard's calendar; together with the other works of England's arch-poet, Edm. Spencer/ collected into one volume, and carefully corrected.
Repository: Vassar College Library
Shelfmark: PR 2358. A1 1617
Published by: H. L. [Humphrey Lownes]
Published for: Mathew Lownes
Published Location: London
Published date: 1617
Copynotes: Grille copy imperfect: leaves ²E3-E4 wanting, replaced with hand-written copy; leaves ⁴B2-B5 wanting, leaf ⁴B6 torn, with some loss of text; leaves ⁴M1-2 wanting. Correspondence of 6/5/10 (in order of appearance): 1. General title page (dated 1617) and dedication to the Queen 2. 1st part of Faerie Queene; B3r reads "YOung Knight" 3. 2nd part of Faerie Queene; title page has date of 1613, colophon has "16012". 4. Letter to Raleigh and dedicatory sonnets; line one ends "Allego-", thus 1617 5. Shepheardes Calender; title page dated 1617; 6. Prosopopoia or Mother Hubberd's Tale; title page dated 1613 7. Colin Clouts Come Home Again and shorter poems; title pages for sonnets (Prothalamion, Amoretti, Epithalamion, Foure Hymnes, Daphnaida, Complaints, dated 1617).
Editionnotes: "The collected editions of Spenser's works commonly designated as the 1611 and 1617 folios ... were made up by issuing as a single volume a number of separate sections of which had been printed independently at periods often several years apart. A general title page was prefixed to these issues of the collected works bearing the date 1611 or 1617, but these dates are in many instances at variance with the dates of the component parts"--Cf. Johnson 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: Cait Martinez 7/8/09; NS 6/7/10; EG 04/03/2018
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