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The shepheardes calender conteyning tvvelue aeglogues proportionable to the twelue monethes. Entitled to the noble and vertuous gentleman most worthy of all titles both of learning and cheualrie M. Philip Sidney., 1579, STC 23089

Title: The shepheardes calender conteyning tvvelue aeglogues proportionable to the twelue monethes. Entitled to the noble and vertuous gentleman most worthy of all titles both of learning and cheualrie M. Philip Sidney.
Repository: Folger Shakespeare Library
Shelfmark: STC 23089
Published by: Hugh Singleton
Published for:
Published Location: London
Published date: 1579
Copynotes: Repairs to title affect first 3 letters of "monethes". In green morocco binding with covers panelled and gold tooled with corner ornaments and inside dentelles (F. Bedford); within a case by S.+S. , London (Sangorski & Sutcliffe). Bemis copy, now Folger copy, is the only known example of the earlier state of N4v - with a block containing a woman’s head above the colophon. Cf. Pforzheimer, 976. Bookplate: Ex Musæo Huthii. Bookplate: ex libris John L. Clawson. Bookplate: ex libris Frank Brewer Bemis. Bookplate: A[rthur] A[mory] H[oughton]. Bookplate: H[aven] O[’More].
Editionnotes: Partly in verse. "To his booke" signed: Immeritô [i.e. Edmund Spenser]. Signatures: [par.]⁴ A-N⁴. States: two states are noted in the outer forme of gathering N. In the earlier state there is a block with a woman’s head between cornucopiae above colophon on verso of last leaf (N4). In the later state there is a printer’s device above the colophon on last leaf. Cf. Pforzheimer, 976.
Record Author: checked by EJS 11/10/09
Record Source: online catalogue (Hamnet); ESTC
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Siglum: FSL_SHC_010
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