| 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, and account of his life ; with other new additions never before in print. Licensed October 24th 1678. Roger L'Estrange.
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| Repository: | Pierpont Morgan Library
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| Shelfmark: | PML 195360
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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: Contemporary calf, rebacked.
Inscriptions/Markings:With the text of the Shepheardes calendar annotated in pencil with brief notes and markings attributed to Samuel Palmer. Cf. Lister.
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| Editionnotes: | Contents: 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 Hubberds 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. Letter of the author's. A vision upon this 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.
Engraved frontispiece plate of Spenser's tomb.
Signatures: leaf (t.p.) unsigned. A-Z¹. Aa-Zz¹. Aaa-Zzz⁴. Aaaa-Iiii⁴ (Aaaa lettered Aaa). Kkkk¹. Aaaaa Ccccc⁴.
Frontispiece and title are mounted.
T.p. printed in red and black.
Most of the pieces have special title-pages dated 1678; Prosopopoia and The shepherds calendar have also separate paging.
The shepherds calendar has numerous errors in paging. A catalogue of books printed for Jonathan Edwin (1 leaf) inserted after p. 258.
"Brittain's Ida", first ascribed to Spenser in 1628 by Thomas Walkley, is now generally assigned to Phineas Fletcher.
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| Record Author: | Elena Galkina 08/23/2018
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| Record Source: | Correspondence
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