| Title: | The works of that famous English poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser. Viz : The Faery queen, The Shepherds calendar, The history of Ireland, &c. Whereunto is added, and account of his life ; with other new additions never before in print. Licensed October 24th 1678. Roger L'Estrange.
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| Repository: | Ohio U Library
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| Shelfmark: | PR2350 1679
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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: | Note: In this copy, the poem ["Epithalamion"] is present.
This copy is collated and correct. Pages 96 to l2l are misnumbered, but the signatures are correct and the text follows in order.
Bound in ¾ calf over marbled boards, all edges heavily sprinkled in red, full calf spine with raised bands, each panel stamped in blind, “Spencer’s Works” tooled in gold on brown leather spine label, with illustrated frontispiece.
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| Editionnotes: | The editorship has been attributed, probably erroneously to Dryden. Cf. Johnson, F.R. A critical bibliography of the works of Edmund Spenser, 1933, p. 53-56.
The fairy queen part 2, Mother Hubberd’s tale, and The shepherd’s calendar each have separate title pages, dated 1678. There are several pagination sequences. Register is continuous.
Includes: "Brittain’s Ida", first attributed to Spenser by Thomas Walkley in 1628; now generally attributed to Phineas Fletcher.
Includes Theodore Bathurst’s translation of The shepheardes calendar.
Title page is in red and black.
Title words "The faery ... &c." are gathered by a left brace.
Frontis. plate signed: R White sculp.
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
In the British Museum copy of this work, the same misnumbering occurs in the pages, but a portion of the text is missing and the signatures are wrong. The title-page of the poem "Epithalamion" is there, but the poem itself is missing, as are the corresponding Nnn signatures
Both editions stop at p.258, signature Kkkk, and continue with p.396, signature Aaaaa. The text, however, is not impaired
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| Record Author: | NS 7/10/09; NS 6/24/10; EG 07/04/2018
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| Record Source: | Repository catalog; correspondence
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