| Copynotes: | Renaissance Center copy bound with: Spenser, Edmund. The shepheards calender. London : Printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes, 1611; and: Spenser, Edmund. Colin Clouts come home againe. At London : printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes, [1611]. MU-RC
Renaissance Center copy is in 18th-century (?) calf (front cover, with all through p. 4 attached, is detached; back cover almost detached; title leaf and A2 trimmed, remargined);... in phase box; added at the end of the volume is [par]⁸ (-[par]8), "A letter of the authors, expounding his whole intention in the course of this worke," which is usually found with the 1611 edition of The faerie queene (as are the 1611 editions of The shepheards calender and Colin Clouts come home againe; perhaps this volume represents a late sale of the 1609 sheets). MU-RC
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| 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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