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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., 1611, Hg.4.2

Title: 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.
Repository: Edinburgh U Library
Shelfmark: Hg.4.2
Published by: Humphrey Lownes
Published for: Matthew Lownes
Published Location: London
Published date: 1611
Copynotes: A reissue of the 1609 edition of the ’faerie queen’, with a cancel titlepage dated 1611, serving as a collective titlepage for the author’s works. ’The shepheards calender’ (STC 23093.5) has a separate titlepage dated 1611, separate pagination, and register. ’Colin Clouts’ (STC 23077.3), ’Prothalamion’, ’Amoretti and Epithalamion’, ’Foure Hymnes’, ’Daphnaida’, and ’Complaints containing sundry small poemes of the worlds vanitie’, ’The teares of the muses’, and ’Muiopotmos, or The fate of the butterfly’, have separate titlepages with the imprint: "At London printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes", and continuous register. In verse. Mother Hubberds Tale dated 1613. The shepheards calendar...dated 1617. Correspondence of 6/7/10: 1. Title page dated 1611 2. Faerie Queene is the later edition "Young Knight" 3. 2nd part Faerie Queene 1612 and the misprint 16012at the end. 4.Shepheardes Calender 1617 5. Colin Clouts 1617 6. Letter to Raleigh "Allego-" 1617 7. Prosopopoia 1613 variant
Editionnotes: In this issue of the ’Faerie queen’, stanza 1 on sig. B3r begins "Yo~ug knight," and the catchword on R3r is "She". The colophon is dated 1609. ’The second part of The faerie queene’ has a separate titlepage dated 1609. ’A letter of the authors, expounding his whole intention in the course of this worke’ (STC 23086.3) has a caption title, and separate register. In this issue of ’The author’s letter.’ The first line of text ends: "Alle-".Includes translations of Du Bellay’s ’Les antiquitez de Rome’ and ’Visions’, Vergil’s ’Gnat’, and Petrarch’s ’Visions’.
Record Author: checked by EJS 10/21/09; NS 6/7/10
Record Source: catalogue
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Siglum: EUN_LTR_001
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