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The faerie queen: The shepheards calendar: together with the other works of England’s arch-poët, Edm. Spenser: collected into one volume, and carefully corrected. , 1611, Douce S 817

Title: The faerie queen: The shepheards calendar: together with the other works of England’s arch-poët, Edm. Spenser: collected into one volume, and carefully corrected.
Repository: Oxford U Bodleian Library
Shelfmark: Douce S 817
Published by: H[umphrey] L[ownes]
Published for: Mathew Lownes
Published Location: London
Published date: 1611
Copynotes: Douce S 817 is one of the paradigm copies of Johnson's Group II (p. 46). In correspondence of 5/28/10, Bodleian librarians list the following constituent parts: The Faerie Queene, 1609, ‘Yoũg’. Second part, 1613 Prosopopoia, 1613 Shepheards Calender, 1611 Colin Clouts, (1611) -lacks a gen. t.p. and Letter to Raleigh (Correspondence of 6/10/10). Johnson notes that this copy has "the 1609 Faerie Queene title-page at the beginning instead of the 1611 general title-page" (46).
Editionnotes: See Johnson on Group II (p. 46) In verse. Printer’s name from STC. A second reissue of the 1609 edition. Part 1 still has the 1611 cancel title page and conjugate dedication of the first reissue (STC 23083.3); B3r stanza 1 begins "Yoūg knight". Q5-6 of part 1, bearing respectively the 1609 title page and first leaf of text of part 2, are canceled. Part 2 has been reprinted, with a title page dated either 1612 or 1613 (stop-press variant). The R3r catchword now reads "And". Pagination and register are continuous. In some copies (such as the one on the microfilm) the 1612/1613 title page has been canceled instead of the 1609 one. The last leaf is blank. Signatures: A⁶(-A1+pi²) B-P⁶ Q⁴ R-2H⁶. Issued with STC 23086.3, 23093.5, 23077.3, and 23087.
Record Author: NS 6/10/10
Record Source: Johnson
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