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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, 86.V.7

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: 86.V.7
Published by: H.L.
Published for: Mathew Lownes
Published Location: London
Published date: 1611
Copynotes: Correspondence of 04/30/2018: Attached to the back inside cover is an ms. document inscribed ‘Seventeen leaves, containing nineteen pages of ms. notes on Spenser’s Faerie Queene; by Samuel Paterson’. Bound between pasteboards covered in blue paper with a paper label on the spine bearing the title, author and date. Condition: Tears, creases and staining mainly to first and last few pages and binding slightly stained. Cover stained and discoloured on front and back. Binding spilt down gutter between pages 14 and 15 (Faerie Queene, 1st book). Correspondence of 6/8/10: Copy at 86.V.7 is as follows and in the following order: Title-page 1611 First books (v.1-3) on B3 has Young Knight Second part (bks 4-6) dated 1613 Shepheards Caendar t.p. 1611 Mother Hubbard's tale 1613 Colin Clouts come home againe t.p. immediatelyfollowed by the dedication to Sir Walter Raleigh, on which there is no date and no identifying factor. [I conjecture that this is the first printing of the Letter to Raleigh, since this copy seems to fall in Johnson's Group III--NS 6/8/10]. This is followed by poems, all of which have dropped head titles and no t.p.s or dates. Followed by: Prothalamion 1611 Amoretti and Epithalamion 1611 Epithalamion 1611 Foure Hymnes 1611 Daphnaida 1611 Complaints 1611 Muiopotmos - no date Visions of Petrarch - no date
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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