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The faerie queen: The shepheards calendar: together with the other works of Englands arch-poet, Edm. Spenser: collected into one vlume, and carefully corrected., 1617, L.3.13 (O)

Title: The faerie queen: The shepheards calendar: together with the other works of Englands arch-poet, Edm. Spenser: collected into one vlume, and carefully corrected.
Repository: Oxford U Lincoln College
Shelfmark: L.3.13 (O)
Published by: H[umphrey] L[ownes]
Published for: Mathew Lownes
Published Location: London
Published date: 1617
Copynotes: According to the ESTC: Gen. t.p.: 1617 Pt. 1 FQ: later Pt. 2 FQ: later SC: 1617 CCCHA: 1617 Letter to Raleigh: 1617 Prosopopoia: 1612 Contents: The faerie quee, the shepheards calendar, Prosopopoia or Mother Hubbards tale, Colin Clouts come home againe, Promalamion or a spousall verse, Epithalamion, Foure hymes, Daphnaida: an elegie upon the death of..., Complaints containing sundry small poems of the worlds vanitie, the teares of the muses (including Virgils gnat, the ruines of Rome), Muiopotmos or the fate of the butterfly. The condition is very good in leather binding. Note: 1612.
Editionnotes: "An examination of a number of copies of the collected editions of Spenser's works commonly designated as the 1611 and 1617 folios, reveals that in no case were these editions printed as a unit. Instead, they 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 component parts" -- cf. Johnson, p. 33. "The other works" also issued separately as STC 23094, 23087, 23077.7 and 23086.7 "The shepheards calender" has t.p. with imprint: "Printed by Bar: Alsop for Iohn Harrison the elder, ...". T.p. for "Prosopopoia" dated 1613. T.p. within ornamental border (McKerrow & Ferguson 212) All works have separate title-pages, dated 1617; with the exception of Prosopia which is dated 1613 and Colin Clout which is undated. Head- and tail-pieces and numerous woodcut vignettes, ornaments and initials throughout. Signatures: pi1 A-P6 Q4 R-Z6 Aa-Hh6 A-E6 F4 A8 A-L6 M2 [paragraph]8. Signatures Hh6, F4 and [paragraph]8 are blank, signatures [paragraph]8 are bound in different places in different copies. The colophon on p. [364] is dated "16012" [sic]. The ESTC lists these items separately. In verse. Printer’s name from STC. The colophon is dated "16012" [sic]. The second part has separate title page dated 1612; pagination and register are continuous. Variant: this title page dated 1613. The last leaf is blank. A reissue of STC 23084, with cancel general title page and dedication. Signatures: A⁶(-A1+pi²) B-P⁶ Q⁴ R-2H⁶. Issued with STC 23086.7, 23094, 23077.7, and 23087. Some copies have STC 23087.5 in place of the last.
Record Author: checked by NS 6/25/10
Record Source: catalog
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Siglum: OXL_WKS_001
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