| 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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| Editionnotes: | The editorship has been attributed, probably erroneously, to Dryden./ "Brittain's Ida", first ascribed to Spenser in 1628 by Thomas Walkley, is now generally assigned to Phineas Fletcher./ The fairy queen part 2, Mother Hubberd's tale, The shepherd's calendar, Colin Clouts come home again, and the minor poems each have separate title pages, dated 1678. Typographic ornaments on these title pages reference, perhaps, the reign of King Charles II with crowned thistles./ Engraved frontispiece of Spenser's tomb plate signed: R White sculp./ Signatures: [pi]1 A-4I4 4K2, 5A-5C4. (4A gathering missigned 3A)./ Title page in red and black, within double line border./ Title words "The faery ... &c." are gathered by a left brace./ Text is continuous despite numerous mispaginations. Register is continuous to 4K2. There are several pagination sequences./ The shepherds calendar has numerous errors in paging. A catalogue of books printed for Jonathan Edwin (1 leaf) inserted at the end of A view of the state of Ireland (p. 258). The next page beginning with Calendarium pastorale is numbered 369 and signed 5A1 which would have been correct if all gatherings between 4K and 5A had been printed./ UW Libraries copy rebacked in the 20th cent. with original acid-sprinkled leather boards (32 cm). A red leather label with title "The works of Edmond Spenser" tooled in gilt and attached to spine. Stuck-on headband. New endsheets and pastedown. All edges original marbling. Gift of John L. Lievsay. DesBib #280.
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