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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, and account of his life ; with other new additions never before in print. / Licensed October 24th 1678. Roger L'Estrange., 1679, PR2350 1679

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, and account of his life ; with other new additions never before in print. / Licensed October 24th 1678. Roger L'Estrange.
Repository: U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Library
Shelfmark: PR2350 1679
Published by: Henry Hills
Published for: Jonathan Edwin
Published Location: London
Published date: 1679
Copynotes: A summary of the life of Mr. Edmond Spenser - The Fairy queen [books 1-3] [books 4-6] - The VIII. canto, imperfect, [i.e. Two cantos of immutability] p. 339 - Prosopopoia: or, Mother Hubberds tale -The shepherds calendar - Colin Clouts come home again - Prothalamion; or, A spousal verse - Amoretti and Epithalamion - 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 - Muiopotmos, or, the Fate of the butterfly - Visions of the worlds vanity - The visions of Bellay - The visions of Petrarch - Letter of the authors - A vision upon this conceit of The Fairy queen ---Brittain's Ida - A view of the state of Ireland -- Catalogue of some books, printed for, and sold by Jonathan Edwin, at the Three Roses in Ludgate Street - Calendarium pastorale [Theodore Bathurst's Latin version of the shepherd's calendar] - Glossary.
Editionnotes: Signatures: leaf (t.-p.) unsigned. A-Z¹. Aa-Zz¹. Aaa-Zzz⁴. Aaaa-Iiii⁴ (Aaaa lettered Aaa). Kkkk¹. Aaaaa Ccccc⁴.; T.p. in red and black.; Most of the pieces have special title-pages dated 1678: Prosopopoia and The shepherds calendar have also separate paging.; The shepherds calendar has numerous errors in paging. A catalogue of books printed for Jonathan Edwin (1 leaf) inserted after p. 258.; "Brittain's Ida", first ascribed to Spenser in 1628 by Thomas Walkley, is now generally assigned to Phineas Fletcher.; Pages 369-391 in Latin.; 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.; In double columns. Wing S4965 Arber's Term cat. I 355 Clark EEL IV 120-123
Record Author: Elena Galkina, 03/30/2018
Record Source: Max Yela, maxyela@uwm.edu
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