| Title: | "Folio edition of Spenser’s Poems." Probably "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."
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| Repository: | Oxford U Queen's
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| Shelfmark: | PP.r.220
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| Published by: | H[umphrey] L[ownes]
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| Published for: | Mathew Lownes
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| Published Location: | London
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| Published date: | 1617
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| Copynotes: | Missing title page.
This copy is not catalogued in OLIS and what information there is about it comes to us directly from the curator, who simply said, "Folio edition of Spencer’s Poems, London, 1617."
Correspondence of 7/8/10:
-General Title page: missing; signatures start at A2
-1st part of the Faerie Queene: Later Printing from Young Knight. No colophon
-2nd part of the Faerie Queene: 1613 on TP; 16012 on colophon
-Shepheardes Calender: 1617
-Prosopopoia or Mother Hubberd’s Tale: 1612 (bound after Shepherd’s Calendar)
-Letter to Raleigh: Allego 1617 (bound after Mother Hubbard’s Tale)
-Colin Clouts Come Home Again: 1617 Prothalamion
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| Editionnotes: | 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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| Record Author: | NS 7/17/09; NS 7/12/10
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| Record Source: | Correspondence
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