| Editionnotes: | he faerie queene -- The second part of the Faerie queene -- Two cantos of mutabilitie -- A letter of the authors, expounding his whole intention in the course of this worke ... to ... Sir Walter Raleigh [and commendatory verses] -- The shepheards calender ... -- Prosopopoia, or, Mother Hubberds tale -- Colin Clouts come home againe, [etc.] -- Prothalamion, or, A spousall verse -- Amoretti and Epithalamion -- Foure hymnes -- Daphnaida : an elegie vpon the death of ... Douglas Howard, daughter and heire of Henrie Lord Howard ... -- Complaints containing sundry small poems of the worlds vanities: The ruines of time. The teares of the muses. Virgils gnat. The ruines of Rome / by Bellay. Muiopotmos, or, The fate of the butterfly. Visions of the worlds vanitie. The visions of Bellay. The visions of Petrarch formerlie translated.
Title within woodcut border; head and tail pieces; initials; printed in double columns.
Printer's name from STC.
Colophon, sig. 2H5v: 16012 [sic] London, Printed by H.L. for Matthew Lownes.
Most of the minor works have separate title pages, and are unpaged.
"The collected editions of Spenser's works commonly designated as the 1611 and 1617 folios ... were made up by issuing as a single volume a number of separate sections which had been printed independently at periods often several years apart. A general title page was prefixed to these issues of the collected works, bearing the date 1611 or 1617, but these dates are in many instances at variance with the dates of the component parts"--Cf. F.R. Johnson, p. 39.
"The faerie queene", part 1 (Books 1-3) 2nd printing, between 1613-1617 (STC 23084); "The faerie queene", part 2 (Books 4-6, and The canto of mutabilitie) in 1612/13 printing (STC 23084): t.-p. and register begin with R1, t.-p. dated 1612, some copies dated 1613; "The letter to Raleigh, the commendatory poems, and dedicatory sonnets" in 1611 printing (STC 23086.3); "The shepehards calendar" in 1611 printing (STC 23093.5); "Prosopoia, or, Mother Hubbard's tale", in 1613 printing (STC 23087); "Colin Clouts come home againe" with no imprint date, internal t.-p.'s are dated 1611 (STC 23077.3)
Johnson, F.R. Spenser, 19: sect. IA, IIIB, IVA, VA, VIA, VIIA.
STC (2nd ed.), 23084 (Faerie queene)
STC (2nd ed.), 23086.3 (Letter)
STC (2nd ed.), 23093.5 (Shepheards)
STC (2nd ed.), 23087 (Prosopoia)
STC (2nd ed.), 23077.3 (Colin)
McKerrow & Ferguson. Title-page borders, no. 212.
Chron 1611.
Imprint London (England).
|
