Spenser Archive Finding Aid
Folio Parts -> Prosopopia or Mother Hubberds Tale

The faerie queen : The shepheards calendar : together with the other works of England's arch-poët / Edm. Spenser ; collected into one volume, and carefully corrected., 1611, PR2350 .C11x

Title: The faerie queen : The shepheards calendar : together with the other works of England's arch-poët / Edm. Spenser ; collected into one volume, and carefully corrected.
Repository: Ohio U Library
Shelfmark: PR2350 .C11x
Published by: H[umphrey]. L[ownes].
Published for: Mathew Lownes
Published Location: London
Published date: 1611
Copynotes: Correspondence of 7/6/10: A note written inside the front cover “2nd folio edition of the F. Queene & 1st folio of other pieces.” Gen. t.p.: 1611 Pt. 1 FQ: Young Knight Pt. 2 FQ: Colophon has 16o12. SC: 1611 CCCHA: 1611 Letter to Raleigh: This letter appears at the end of the book, with the heading “A letter of the authors….” Another letter to the right worth … Sir Walter Raleigh follows the title page of Colin Clouts. First line of text ends in Alle Prosopopoia: 1613 What’s in it: In this order Faerie queene; Shepheards Calender; Prosopopoia or Mother Hubberds Tale; Colin Clouts Come Home Againe; Letter to the Right Worth and noble Knight, Sir Water Raleigh…. Follows title page of Colin Clouts. (A2) Colin Clouts has no pagination, but the following titles have signatures a – m. Colin Clouts, Mourning Muse of Thestylis; A pastorall Aeglogue upon the death…; An elegie, or friends passion, for his astrophell; prothalamion; amoretti and epithalamion; epithalamion; four hymnes; daphnaida; complaints containing sundry small poems of the worlds vanitie [containing ruines of time, teares of the muses; virgils gnat; ruines of rome; muiopotmos, visions of the worlds vanity; belays visions, petraches visions]; A letter of the authors, expounding his whole intention in the course of this work; which for that guveth great light to the reader, for the better understanding is herunto annexed; A vision upon this conceit of the faery queene. Full dark brown leather binding, slightly mottled, hinges repaired and taped with new free endpapers added, front and back cover edges triple-lined in blind with decoration stamped at center in gold, spine with raised bands and decoration in each panel stamped in gold. Inserted material: Dealer description.
Editionnotes: In verse. Printer’s name from STC. A third "reissue" of the 1609 edition, though both parts are now actually in later settings. Part 1 still has the 1611 cancel title page and conjugate dedication of the first reissue (STC 23083.3). The text of part 1 has now been reset (the 1615 date conjectured by STC); B3r stanza 1 begins "Young Knight". Part 2 still has separate title page dated 1612 or 1613 (stop-press variants) and R3r catchword reads "And". Pagination and register are continuous. The last leaf is blank. Signatures: A⁶(-A1+pi²) B-P⁶ Q⁴ R-2H⁶. Ideally issued with STC 23086.3, 23093.5, 23077.3, and 23087, though some copies have parts from the 1617 editions.
Record Author: NS 7/10/2009; NS 7/6/10; EG 07/04/2018
Record Source: Repository catalog; correspondence
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