| 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.
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| Repository: | Liverpool Hope University
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| Shelfmark: | Radcliffe B665. Fol.
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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: | 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]'
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| 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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| Record Author: | Elena Galkina, 5/25/2018
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