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The faerie qveen: ;The shepheards calendar: ; together with the other works of England's arch-poet, Edm. Spenser/collected into one volume and carefully corrected, 1611, Q392

Title: The faerie qveen: ;The shepheards calendar: ; together with the other works of England's arch-poet, Edm. Spenser/collected into one volume and carefully corrected
Repository: U of Oregon Library
Shelfmark: Q392
Published by: H[umphrey] L[ownes]
Published for: Mathew Lownes
Published Location: London
Published date: 1611
Copynotes: This copy is dated on the general title page 1613. There is no dedication to the queen. Also, it looks as if this page is not original. It looks as if someone pasted, or adhered in some way, a page over the original. [1st part of the FQ] seems to lack a colophon, but the B3r has YOung Knight, (with the "o" in "young" in a capital letter). The title page [of the 2nd part of the FQ] does not have a date, but the colophon has 16012. This copy has 1611 [on the title page of the Shepheardes Calender]. All title pages for the [shorter poems after Colin Clouts] have 1611. "Allegories" at the end of the first line of text on the Letter to Raleigh. Works do not appear in the order listed below.
Editionnotes: Title within ornamental border. Cf. McKerrow, R.B. & F.S. Ferguson. Title -page borders used in England and Scotland, 1485-1640, no. 212 Signatures: [par.]² A⁶(-A1) B-Q⁶ R-2H⁶ ²[par.]⁸ ²A-E⁶ ²F⁴ ³A⁴ ³B-C² ⁴ A-C⁶ ³D-F⁶ ²G-L⁶ ²M² Leaves 2H6 (end of "Faerie queene" part 1), ²[par.]8 (end of "Letter"), ²F4 (end of "Shepheards calendar") are blank Pages 8 & 32, 2nd sequence ("Faerie queene" part 1) misnumbered 10 & 23 Printer's name from STC This copy corresponds to Johnson 19, group III ("Faerie queene" part 1, 2 in 2nd printings, between 1613-1617, and 1612-1613 respectively) "The collected editions of Spenser's works commonly designated as the 1611 and 1617 folios ... were made up by issuing as a single volume a number of separate sections which had been printed independently at periods often several years apart. A general title page was prefixed to these issues of the collected works, bearing the date 1611 or 1617, but these dates are in many instances at variance with the dates of the component parts"--Cf. Johnson
Record Author: Cait Martinez 8/3/09; NS 5/24/10
Record Source: Repository catalog; Correspondence
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