| Editionnotes: | Each part has a divisional title page. 'The shepheards calendar' has a different imprint from other parts: Printed by Bar: Alsop for Iohn Harrison the elder, and are to bee solde at his shop at the signe of the golden Anker in Pater Noster Row, 1617.
Various printer's devices used by Humphrey Lownes on colophon of 'The faerie queen', and on the divisional title pages. Highly decorative title vignettes, borders, decorated initials, and head and tail pieces throughout. General title within woodcut border, with additional woodcuts throughout 'The shepheards calendar'.
'Complaints' includes 'The ruines of time', 'The teares of the Muses', 'Muiopotmos, or, The fate of the butterfly', 'Visions of the worlds vanitie' and translations of Du Bellay's 'The ruines of Rome' and 'Visions', Virgil's 'Gnat', and Petrarch's 'Visions'.
In verse.
Printer’s name from STC.
The colophon is dated "16012" [sic].
The second part has separate title page dated 1612; pagination and register are continuous. Variant: this title page dated 1613.
The last leaf is blank.
A reissue of STC 23084, with cancel general title page and dedication.
Signatures: A⁶(-A1+pi²) B-P⁶ Q⁴ R-2H⁶.
Issued with STC 23086.7, 23094, 23077.7, and 23087. Some copies have STC 23087.5 in place of the last.
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