| Title: | The works of that famous English poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser. : Viz. The faery queen, The shepherds calendar, The history of Ireland, &c.
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| Repository: | Oxford U Brasenose College Library
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| Published by: | Henry Hills
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| Published for: | Jonathan Edwin
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| Published Location: | London
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| Published date: | 1679
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| Copynotes: | Binding: 18th century mottled calf over boards sewn onto 5 supports with raised bands; blind tooled fillets towards outer edges of boards; textblock edges sprinkled red; rebacked. - MS additions: Pencil note on inside of upper board: "£3-17-6 SHS". - Prev. shelfmark: J 16.5 - Prev. shelfmark: F/Folio 4 - Size: 33 cm.
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| Editionnotes: | Signatures: pi² (-pi2) A-Z⁴ Aa-Zz⁴ Aaa-Zzz⁴ Aaa[a]-Iiii⁴ Kkkk² Aaaaa-Ccccc⁴.
General Note:
Engraved frontispiece signed: "R. White sculp.".
Title-page printed in red and black.
Title enclosed within double rule-border.
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.
The fairy queen part 2, Mother Hubberd's tale (on leaf Xx3 recto), and The shepherd's calendar (on leaf Zz3 recto) each have separate title-pages, dated 1678. There are several pagination sequences. There are many other sections with a separate title-page. Register is continuous.
Includes: "Brittain's Ida", first attributed to Spenser by Thomas Walkley in 1628; now generally attributed to Phineas Fletcher.
Includes Theodore Bathurst's translation of The shepheardes calendar.
Text is continuous despite numerous mispaginations.
The section page no.369-391 in Latin.
Includes an alphabetical index at the end.
Leaf 4K2, the unpaginated leaf after p.258, is an advertisement leaf.
Two states of 4K1v identified. In some copies 4K1v (p.258) has "Finis" at end of text and no catchword; other copies do not have "Finis" but have catchword "Calen-".
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| Record Author: | Elena Galkina, 05/04/2018
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| Record Source: | Repository catalog; correspondence
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