| 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.
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| Editionnotes: | A summary of the life of Mr. Edmond Spenser -- The Fairy queen [books 1-3] -- The second part of the Fairy queen [books 4-6] -- Two cantos of mutability -- Prosopopoia, or, Mother Hubbards tale -- The shepherds calendar -- Colin Clouts come home again [etc] -- Prothalamion, or, A spousal verse -- Amoretti and Epithalamion -- Four hymns -- Daphnaida: an elegy -- Complaints containing sundry small poems of the worlds vanity: The ruines of time. The tears of the muses. Virgils gnat. The ruines of Rome: by Bellay. Muiopotmos. Visions of the worlds vanity. The visions of Bellay. The visions of Petrarch. A letter of the author's. A vision upon the conceit of the Fairy queen -- Brittain's Ida: A view of the state of Ireland -- Calendarium pastorale [Theodore Bathurst's Latin version of The shepherd's calendar] -- Glossary.
Title in red and black, within double line border.
Most of the pieces have special title-pages dated 1678; Prosopopoia and The shepherds calendar have also separate paging.
Brittains's Ida, first ascribed to Spenser by Thomas Walkley in 1628, is now generally assigned to Phineas Fletcher.
The editorship has been attributed, probably erroneously, to Dryden.
Cf. Clark, W.A. Early Eng. lit. 1920-25. v. 4, p. 120-123, and Johnson, F.R. A critical bibliography of the works of Edmund Spenser ... Baltimore, 1933, p. 53-56.
Engraving of Spenser's tomb by R. White.
Chron 1679.
Imprint London (England).
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