| Title: | The works of that famous English poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser. Viz. The faery queen, The shepherds calendar, The history of Ireland, &c. Whereunto is added, an account of his life; with other new additions never before in print. Licensed, October 24th 1678. Roger L'Estrange.
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| Repository: | Oxford U Bodleian Library
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| Shelfmark: | Vet. A3 c.258
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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: | Binding: 17th century blind tooled sheep, upper board and spine detached, stitching exposed and very loose. In extremely poor physical condition and restricted for conservations reasons.
31 cm.
Bookplate: Ex libris Cradock's Hill, Nottage.
Copious MS additions in an 18th century? English hand inserted to complete the printed text.
Highly imperfect, some of the missing text has been supplied in MS>
Wants main t.p. and all prelims to p. 4, and all after p. 388. Many of the remaining leaves are damaged with loss of text in some cases.
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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 read 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: | EJS; NS 6/25/10
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| Record Source: | OLIS; ESTC
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