| Title: | The works of that famous English poet, Mr. Edmond (sic) Spenser; viz. The Faery Queen, The Shepherd's Calendar, The History of Ireland, &c. Whereunto is added, an account of his life, with other new additions never before in print.
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| Repository: | U of Pennsylvania (Annenberg Rare Book)
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| Shelfmark: | Folio 821 Sp3.14
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| Published by: | Henry Hills
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| Published for: | Jonathan Edwin
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| Published Location: | London
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| Published date: | 1679
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| Copynotes: | RBC copy has first state of 4K1v.
Frost Collection copy: leaf 4K1v is first state, with "Finis" at end of text and no catchword.
Frost Collection copy has a few ms. marginal marks in text; bookseller's ms. note in pencil on back free endpaper.
Frost Collection copy has tear in tail margin of leaf L1; right board partially detached from spine.
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| Editionnotes: | The editorship has been attributed, probably erroneously, to Dryden.
"Brittain's Ida", first ascribed to Spenser in 1628 by Thomas Walkley, is now generally assigned to Phineas Fletcher.
The fairy queen part 2, Mother Hubberd's tale, The shepherd's calendar, Colin Clouts come home again, and the minor poems each have separate title pages, dated 1678. Typographic ornaments on these title pages reference, perhaps, the reign of King Charles II with crowned thistles.
Includes Theodore Bathurst's translation of The shepheardes calendar.
Engraved frontispiece of Spenser's tomb plate signed: R White sculp.
Signatures: [pi]1 A-4I⁴ 4K², 5A-5C⁴. (4A gathering missigned 3A).
Title page in red and black, within double line border.
Title words "The faery ... &c." are gathered by a left brace.
Text is continuous despite numerous mispaginations. Register is continuous to 4K2. There are several pagination sequences.
The shepherds calendar has numerous errors in paging. A catalogue of books printed for Jonathan Edwin (1 leaf) inserted at the end of A view of the state of Ireland (p. 258). The next page beginning with Calendarium pastorale is numbered 369 and signed 5A1 which would have been correct if all gatherings between 4K and 5A had been printed.
In double columns.
Two states of 4K1v identified. In some copies 4K1v (p.258) has "Finis" at end of text and no catchword; other copies do not have "Finis" but have catchword "Calen-".
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| Record Author: | Catherine Blose; Elena Galkina 07/15/2018
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| Record Source: | Repository catalog
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