| 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.
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| 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?
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