| Title: | The works of that famous English poet, Mr Edmond Spenser, viz: The Faery Queen, The Shepherds Calendar, the History of Ireland, &c. (beside this there is written y.m. in ink)
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| Repository: | Oxford U Oriel College
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| Shelfmark: | 3Wa 10
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| Published by: | Henry Hills
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| Published for: | Jonathan Edwin, at the Three Roses
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| Published Location: | Ludgate-street, London
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| Published date: | 1679
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| Editionnotes: | 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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| Record Author: | Catherine Blose; NS 6/30/10
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| Record Source: | Marjory Szurko
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