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The works of Mr. Edmund Spenser : in six volumes ; with a glossary explaining the old and obscure words / publish'd by Mr. Hughes., 1715, PR2351 .H8 1715

Title: The works of Mr. Edmund Spenser : in six volumes ; with a glossary explaining the old and obscure words / publish'd by Mr. Hughes.
Repository: U of Rochester Rush Rhees Library
Shelfmark: PR2351 .H8 1715
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Published for: Jacob Tonson
Published Location: London
Published date: 1715
Copynotes: Ordinary paper copy. Top right corner of t.p. of v. 2 cut out, possibly removing autograph? Table of contents: v. 1. The life of Mr. Edmund Spenser An essay on allegorical poetry, &c. Remarks on the Fairy Queen Remarks on the Shepherd's calendar, &c. A glossary explaining the old and obscure words in Spenser's works A letter of the author, explaining his design, in the poem of the Fairy-Queen Verses to the author of the Fairy-Queen Verses of the author, with his Fairy-Queen, to several persons of quality The first book of the Fairy-Queen v. 2. The second book of the Fairy-Queen ; The third book of the Fairy-Queen v. 3. The fourth book of the Fairy-Queen ; The fifth book of the Fairy-Queen v. 4. The sixth book of the Fairy-Queen ; Two cantos of mutability Shepherd's Calendar Colin Clout's come home again Virgil's Gnat v. 5. Prosopopoia, or, Mother Hubberd's Tale Amoretti, or Sonnets Poems Prothalamion Epithalamion Four hyms Daphnaida Muiopotmos, or, The fate of the butterfly The tears of the muses The visions of Petrach The visions of Bellay The ruines of Rome Visions of the world's vanity Astrophel The mourning muse of Thestylis A pastoral aeglogue upon the death of Sir Philip Sidney An elegy, or, Friend's passion for his Astrophel An epitaph upon the Right Honourable Sir Philip Sidney v. 6. The ruines of time Britain's Ida A view of the state of Ireland Calendarium pastorale, sive Aeglogae Duodecim Letters between Mr. Spenser and Mr. Gabriel Harvey.
Editionnotes: Issued in fine and ordinary paper copies; there are minor differences in typesetting between the two issues. Paged continuously (viii, cxl, 1758 p.). Fine paper copies have xviii p. at front of collation, p. ix-xviii being "Subscribers to the royal paper of Spenser's works." Head- and tail-pieces; initials. "Errata"--P. cxl. Includes Theodore Bathurst's Latin translation of Spenser's Shepherd's calendar, under title Calendarium pastorale (p. 1673-1744), edited by William Dillingham. Signatures: v. 1: A⁴ a-e¹² f¹⁰ B-H¹² I⁸; v. 2: K-Z¹² 2A¹²(-2A12) 2B²; v. 3: 2B-2O¹²; v. 4: 2P-3D¹²; v. 5: pi² 3E-3Q¹²; v. 6: pi² 3R-4E¹² 4F⁸ (the last leaf blank). leaf 3F5 a cancel?
Record Author: Elena Galkina, 04/16/2018
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