| 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, an account of his life; with other new additions never before in print.
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| Repository: | Oxford U Merton
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| Shelfmark: | 33.A.11
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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: | Binding: 20th century half-calf with brown paper boards; text block edges stained red; spine with 5 raised bands and title.
Bookplate: Merton College bookplate (type 2) on pastedown of upper board; Merton College bookplate (type 1) on verso of title-page.
Previous shelfmark: 37.C.19.
Previous shelfmark: 36.C.19.
Previous shelfmark: P.10.15.Art.
Previous shelfmark: K.1.1.Art.
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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.
Text is continuous despite numerous mispaginations.
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| Record Author: | NS 7/20/09; NS 6/28/10
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| Record Source: | catalog
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