| Title: | The works of that famous English poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser. Viz.: The Faery queen, The Shepherds calendar, The history of Ireland, & Whereunto is added, an account of his life; with other new additions never before in print.
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| Repository: | Victoria and Albert Museum National Art Library
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| Shelfmark: | 86.V.13 (Copy A)
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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: | Presentation bookplate: "From the library of the late Lady Dike..."
Bookplate: "E Libris Emilia F S Dike."
Bound in dark-brown leather, blind tooled and stamped.
Condition: Tears, creases and staining mainly to first and last few pages with water damage to some pages. Significant abrasion to front and back covers and losses of leather.
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| Editionnotes: | Frontispiece and title are mounted.
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.
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| Record Author: | Cait Martinez 7/8/09; Elena Galkina 04/30/2018
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| Record Source: | Repository catalog; correspondence
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