| Copynotes: | In correspondence of 5/28/10, Bodleian librarians list the following constituent parts of Lawn d.73:
Gen. t.p.: The Faerie Queen: The Shepheards Calendar: together with … 1617,
FQ pt. 1: ‘Young’.
FQ, Second part, 1613
Shepheards Calender, 1617
Letter of the authors (1617)
Prosopopoia, [no date]
Colin Clouts, (1611)
Bookplate:Letterpress bookplate of Brian Lawn.
Binding: Plain 17th century sprinked calf with modern marbled endpapers; rebacked.
Note: title pages dated 1617 except: Prosopopoia (undated); Colin Clout (undated).
Note: signature [paragraph]8 bound after "The shepheard's calendar".
Imperfect: Upper right corner of t.p. torn.
Size: 27 cm.
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| Editionnotes: | "An examination of a number of copies of the collected editions of Spenser's works commonly designated as the 1611 and 1617 folios, reveals that in no case were these editions printed as a unit. Instead, they were made up by issuing as a single volume a number of separate sections which had been printed independently at periods often several years apart. A general title-page was prefixed to these issues of the collected works, bearing the date 1611 or 1617, but these dates are in many instances at variance with the component parts" -- cf. Johnson, p. 33.
"The other works" also issued separately as STC 23094, 23087, 23077.7 and 23086.7
"The shepheards calender" has t.p. with imprint: "Printed by Bar: Alsop for Iohn Harrison the elder, ...".
T.p. for "Prosopopoia" dated 1613.
T.p. within ornamental border (McKerrow & Ferguson 212)
All works have separate title-pages, dated 1617; with the exception of Prosopia which is dated 1613 and Colin Clout which is undated.
Head- and tail-pieces and numerous woodcut vignettes, ornaments and initials throughout.
Signatures: pi1 A-P6 Q4 R-Z6 Aa-Hh6 A-E6 F4 A8 A-L6 M2 [paragraph]8.
Signatures Hh6, F4 and [paragraph]8 are blank, signatures [paragraph]8 are bound in different places in different copies.
The colophon on p. [364] is dated "16012" [sic].
The ESTC lists these items separately.
Contents: The faerie queen. -- The shepheards calender. -- Prosopopoia. -- Colin Clouts come home againe. -- Prothalamion. -- Amoretti and epithalamion. -- Epithalamion. -- Foure hymnes. -- Daphnaida. -- Complaints containing sundry small poemes of the worlds vanitie. -- The teares of the muses. -- Muiopotmos, or The fate of the butterfly.
STC 23085
STC 23094
STC 23087
STC 23077.7
STC 23086.7
n verse.
Printer’s name from STC.
The colophon is dated "16012" [sic].
The second part has separate title page dated 1612; pagination and register are continuous. Variant: this title page dated 1613.
The last leaf is blank.
A reissue of STC 23084, with cancel general title page and dedication.
Signatures: A⁶(-A1+pi²) B-P⁶ Q⁴ R-2H⁶.
Issued with STC 23086.7, 23094, 23077.7, and 23087. Some copies have STC 23087.5 in place of the last.
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