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Complaints. : Containing sundrie small poemes of the worlds vanitie. VVhereof the next page maketh mention. / By Ed. Sp., 1591, HB4/6.a.2.10(1)

Title: Complaints. : Containing sundrie small poemes of the worlds vanitie. VVhereof the next page maketh mention. / By Ed. Sp.
Repository: Oxford U St. John's
Shelfmark: HB4/6.a.2.10(1)
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Published for: William Ponsonbie
Published Location: London
Published date: 1591
Copynotes: Binding: 18th century? sprinkled calf; decorative roll on edges of boards; blind tooled fillet on turn-ins; text block edges sprinkled red; rebacked. Bookplate: STJ type 4 (foliate facsimile). Imperfect: Copy lacks leaf Z4. MS additions: 20th century? MS contents list on recto of first free end-paper; 18th century? MS contents list on verso of third free end-paper; numerous marginal annotations/scribblings (including "Elizabeth" on leaf K4v), chiefly 17th century, in a variety of different hands throughout. Bound with: Bound with three other items. Note: Cutting from a 20th century sale catalogue (labelled "Quaritch, no. 305, A.D. 1911" in MS) describing various copies of the first work in the volume) bound in preceding first free end-paper. Note: "149" on fore-edge.
Editionnotes: Ed. Sp. = Edmund Spenser. In verse. Signatures: A-Z⁴. "The teares of the muses", "Prosopopoia", and "Muiopotmos" each have separate title pages, the last dated 1590; register is continuous. The last leaf is blank. Copy filmed at UMI microfilm Early English Books, Tract Supplement reel E4 has title page to "Prosopopoia" only. Stationer’s Register: Entered 29 December 1590.
Record Author: NS 7/20/09; NS 6/25/10
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