| Title: | The works of that famous English poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser. : Viz. The faery queen, The shepherds calendar, The history of Ireland, &c. / Whereunto is added, an account of his life; with other new additions never before in print..
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| Repository: | Oxford U All Souls College, Codrington Library
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| Shelfmark: | pp.infra 2.4
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| Published by: | Henry Hills
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| Published for: | Jonathan Edwin
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| Published Location: | London
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| Published date: | 1679
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| Copynotes: | Local Copy Notes:
Bookplate: College bookplate no: 6 (see J. Henderson Smith "The book-plates of All Souls' College, Oxford" in Journal of the Ex Libris Society, ix (1899), pp. 17-23) on verso of t.p.
Binding: 17th century sprinkled calf over pasteboards; blind roll on edges of boards; gilt tooling on spine; text block edges sprinkled red and brown; end bands worked in blue and white.
Previous shelfmark: pp.2.8.
Previous shelfmark: ff.infra.6.
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| Editionnotes: | Signatures: [pi]2 (-[pi]2) A-Z4 Aa-Zz4 Aaa-Zzz4 Aaa[a]-Iiii4 Kkkk2 Aaaaa-Ccccc4.
The editorship has been attributed, probably erroneously to Dryden. Cf. Johnson, F.R. A critical bibliography of the works of Edmund Spenser, 1933, p. 53-56.
The fairy queen part 2, Mother Hubberd's tale, and The shepherd's calendar each have separate title-pages, dated 1678. There are several pagination sequences. Register is continuous.
Includes: "Brittain's Ida", first attributed to Spenser by Thomas Walkley in 1628; now generally attributed to Phineas Fletcher.
Includes Theodore Bathurst's translation of The shepheardes calendar.
Engraved frontispiece signed: "R. White sculp.".
Text is continuous despite numerous mispaginations.
Title-page printed in red and black.
Title enclosed within double rule-border.
Includes an alphabetical index at the end.
Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. University Microfilms, 1962. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700; 77:7).
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| Record Author: | NS 6/25/10
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