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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, Ig Sp35 +C611 (c. 1)

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: Yale U Library
Shelfmark: Ig Sp35 +C611 (c. 1)
Published by: H.[umphrey] L.[ownes]
Published for: Mathew Lownes
Published Location: London
Published date: 1611
Copynotes: BEIN Ig Sp35 +C611 Copy 1: Imperfect: t.p., leaf A1, p. 9-10, 187-188, 360-363, p. [1] at end wanting; p. 1-2, 23-24, 105-106, 155-156, 309-310 mutilated, with some loss of text. Probably belongs to group I in Johnson’s Spenser, p. 45. Copy of Henry Dunster first president of Harvard College with autograph. Accompanying the volume are 2 letters giving provenance and of Dunster genealogical interest ; also a 4 leaf physical collation of the volume. Other autographs: J.(?) Smyth at head of A2r ; Timothy Harrington along margin of [par.]2r; manuscript poem signed Willm. Rand, Jr. on blank leaf 2I4. No. 1 of 4 works bound together. Gen. t.p.: lacking Pt. 1 FQ: Pt. 2 FQ: SC: 1611. BEIN Ig Sp35 +C611 Copy 1: Imperfect: leaves A1-3, A5-6, C2-5, E6 and F1-4 wanting; leaf A4 mutilated, with some loss of text. Accompanying the volume are 2 letters giving provenance and of Dunster genealogical interest ; also a 4 leaf physical collation of the volume. Inscriptions on p. 15: Isaiah Dunster. No. 3 of 4 works bound together. CCCHA: 1611. BEIN Ig Sp35 +C611 Copy 1: Imperfect: leaves A1, A6, B2-6, C1, D6, I3-6, K1-6, L1-6, and M1-2 wanting; leaves H3-6 and I1-2 mutilated, with some no of text. Accompanying the volume are 2 letters giving provenance and of Dunster genealogical interest ; also a 4 leaf physical collation of the volume. Ms. notes on leaf G4: Cambridge AD 1735-6. No. 4 of 4 works bound together. Letter to Raleigh: 1617. BEIN Ig Sp35 +C611 Copy 1: Imperfect: leaf [par.]3 and [par.]8 wanting; leaf [par.]1 mutilated, with some loss of text. Accompanying the volume are 2 letters giving provenance and of Dunster genealogical interest ; also a 4 leaf physical collation of the volume. Inscription on leaf [par.]3: Timothy Harrington. No. 2 of 4 works bound together. Prosopopoia:
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.
Record Author: NS 6/21/10
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