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The faerie queene: ; The shepheards calendar: ; together with the other works / of England’s Arch-poët, Edm. Spenser., 1611, 1988 +166

Title: The faerie queene: ; The shepheards calendar: ; together with the other works / of England’s Arch-poët, Edm. Spenser.
Repository: Yale U Library
Shelfmark: 1988 +166
Published by: H[umphrey] L[ownes]
Published for: Mathew Lownes
Published Location: London
Published date: 1611
Copynotes: In Beinecke copy, Letter to Raleigh is bound at end. According to F.R. Johnson, "the order in which the last four sections appear varies considerably" (p. 46). Leaf ²L⁴ of Muiopotomos (in Colin Clouts come home againe and minor pems) is bound out of order after ²M2. General t.p. and dedication to Queen Elizabeth (1611) -- Faerie queene, part I (1609) -- Faerie queene, part I (1609) -- Faerie queene, part II (1612) -- Letter to Raleigh (first printing) -- Shepheards calender (1611) -- Prosopopoia or Mother Hubberds tale (1613) -- Colin Clouts come hone againe and minor poems (1611).
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.
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