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The faerie queen: The shepheards calendar: together with the other works of England's arch-poet, Edm. Spenser: collected into one volume, and carefully corrected., 1611, STC 23083.8

Title:	The faerie queen: The shepheards calendar: together with the other works of England's arch-poet, Edm. Spenser: collected into one volume, and carefully corrected.
Repository:	Folger Shakespeare Library
Shelfmark:	STC 23083.8
Published by:	H[umphrey]. L[ownes]
Published for:	Matthew Lownes
Published Location:	London
Published date:	1611
Copynotes:	Numerous small stains or foxing, affecting text. Bound at end are these works of Spenser: The shepheards calender (London, 1611; STC 23093.5); Colin Clouts come home againe [and other minor works] (London, [1611]; STC 23077.3); A letter of the authors ... ([London, 1611]; STC 23086.3); bound in old half calf over marbled boards.
Editionnotes:	In verse. Printer’s name from STC. A reissue of the 1609 edition of ’The faerie queene’, with a cancel title-page dated 1611, serving as a collective titlepage for the author’s works. 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-". ’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. Includes translations of Du Bellay’s ’Les antiquitez de Rome’ and ’Visions’, Vergil’s ’Gnat’, and Petrarch’s ’Visions’. Signatures: [pi] A-Hh⁶ Ii²; parag³[i.e.⁴]; [pi³] A-E⁶ F-F⁴; A-L⁶ M-M². Signature F⁴ (2nd sequence) is blank. "This 1609 edition of the 'Faerie Queene' is frequently found bound in a volume with the 1611-13 folio editions of the other works. Furthermore, with its title-page cancelled by the 1611 general title-page, it forms the 'Faerie Queene' portion of the earliest issued copies of the collected works."-Johnson
Record Author:	EJS
Record Source:	online catalogue (Hamnet); ESTC; Johnson
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