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The faerie queen; The shepheards calendar: together with the other works/ of England's arch-poet, Edm. Spencer; collected into one volume, and carefully corrected., 1611, 42.V.1

Title: The faerie queen; The shepheards calendar: together with the other works/ of England's arch-poet, Edm. Spencer; collected into one volume, and carefully corrected.
Repository: Victoria and Albert Museum National Art Library
Shelfmark: 42.V.1
Published by: H.L.
Published for: Mathew Lownes
Published Location: London
Published date: 1611
Copynotes: Correspondence of 04/30/2018: Bound in maroon leather binding with gold tooling on spine. Condition: Tears, creases and staining mainly to first and last few pages. Back cover slightly abraded. Correspondence of 6/8/10: The copy at 42.V.1 is as follows and in the following order: Title-page dated 1611. Printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes. First part of the Faerie Queen (bks 1-3). No colophon. Printing of Young Knight on B3r Second part of the Faerie Queen. Dated 1613 Misprint on colophon of 16012. The Shepheards Calendar t.p. 1611 Mother Hubberds tale . 1613 Colin Clouts come home againe. Undated t.p. immediately followed by the dedication to Sir Walter Raleigh, on which there is nothing to identify the date (no Alle- or Allego). [Since this copy seems to fall in Johnson's Group III, I conjecture that Letter to Raleigh is first printing--NS 6/8/10] Prothalamion, Amoretti and Epithalamion, Epithalamion, Foure hymnes, Complaints, Muiopotmos or the Fate of the butterfly all 1611.
Editionnotes: Title within woodcut border; head and tail pieces; initials; printed in double columns. Colophon, sig. 2H5v: 16012 [sic.] London, Printed by H.L. for Matthew Lownes. Most of the minor works have separate title pages, and are unpaged.
Record Author: Cait Martinez 7/8/09; NS 6/8/10; EG 04/30/2018
Record Source: Repository catalog; correspondence
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