| Editionnotes: | ESTC: 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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