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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., 1617, TR (c. 2)

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: U of Vermont Library
Shelfmark: TR (c. 2)
Published by: H[umphrey] L[ownes]
Published for: Mathew Lownes
Published Location: London
Published date: 1617
Copynotes: Full shelfmark: TR Spenser, Edmund. The Fairie Queen... London, 1617. • Was previously a book plate or other glued insert on other side • Pencil notes: Ca; []u; W.W. Correspondence of 6/26/10: In order of appearance: Section 1, T.P. and dedication • T.P.: 1617 • Blank leaf (A1) • Dedication to Elizabeth • Marginalia on t.p.: No. 31 (15) Will: Cotton (top of page); Liber Will Cotton (above title); all in ink Section 2, Books 1-3 • No T.P. • Starts w/ A2 • Marginalia: on blank leaf following colophon: Lowns written in ink in middle of page Section 3, Second Part, Books 4-6 • T.P. 1613 • Colophon on verso of p. 363, followed by a blank leaf Section 5, The Shepheard’s Calendar • T.P.: 1617 Section 6: Prosopopoia • T.P.: 1613 Section 4: letter to Raleigh, etc. • First three lines break as Johnson indicates for second printing • Marginalia: pencil check mark next to first line Section 7: Colin Clouts and the rest of the minor poems • T.P. of Clouts: no date • T.P. of minor poems: 1617
Editionnotes: In 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.
Record Author: NS 6/28/10
Record Source: correspondence
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