| Editionnotes: | 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.
Title page is in red and black.
Title words "The faery ... &c." are gathered by a left brace.
Frontis. plate signed: R White sculp.
Text is continuous despite numerous mispaginations.
A summary of the life of Mr. Edmond Spenser
The Fairy queen [books 1-3]
The second part of The Fairy queen [books 4-6]
Two cantos of mutability
Prosopopoia or, Mother Hubberds tale
The shepherds calendar
Cohn Clouts come home again [etc.]
Prothalamion, or a spousal verse
Amoretti and Epithalamion
Four hymns
Daphnaida an elegy
Complaints containing sundry small poems of the worlds vanity. The ruines of time. The tears of the muses. Virgils gnat. The ruines of Rome, by Bellay. Muipotmos
Visions of the worlds vanity. The visions of Bellay. The visions of Petrarch. Letter of the author's. Vision upon the conceit of The Fairy queen
Brittain's Ida. A view of the state of Ireland
Calendarium pastorale [Theodore Bathurst's Latin version of The shpeherd's calendar]
Glossary.
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