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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, an account of his life; with other new additions never before in print. Licensed, October 24th 1678. Roger L'Estrange., 1679, Radcliffe B665. Fol.

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. Licensed, October 24th 1678. Roger L'Estrange.
Repository: Liverpool Hope University
Shelfmark: Radcliffe B665. Fol.
Published by: Henry Hills
Published for: Jonathan Edwin
Published Location: London
Published date: 1679
Copynotes: It has brown leather binding, blind stamped front and back with gold tooled design on the spine and a leather label gold tooled with the title: Spenser's Works. Annotations in pencil on margins of the First Book of the Fairy Queen: Page 15, verse 12 - The word 'policy' is underlined and note in margin reads '[virtue]? + Spensers opinion of diplomacy' Page 20, verse 28 "And with her bears the foul welfavoured with ... Unless she chaunc't their stubborn mouths to twitch" - note reads 'splendid ITR [iteration]'
Editionnotes: 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, and The shepherd's calendar each have separate title pages, dated 1678. There are several pagination sequences. 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. Title page is in red and black. Title words "The faery ... &c." are gathered by a left brace. Frontis. plate signed: R White sculp. Text is continuous despite numerous mispaginations. The following also have separate title pages, dated 1678: Colin Clouts come home again Prothalamion, or a spousal verse made Amoretti and Epithalamion Four Hymns Daphnaida: An Elegy Complaints containing sundry small poems of the worlds vanity The tears of the muses Virgils Gnat Muiopotmos, or, the fate of the butterfly
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