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The faerie queen: The shepheards calendar: together with the other works of England’s arch-poët, Edm. Spenser: collected into one volume, and carefully corrected. [catalog lists title as: "The faerie queene, disposed into XII. bookes, fashioning twelue morall vertues."], 1611, A39.1

Title: The faerie queen: The shepheards calendar: together with the other works of England’s arch-poët, Edm. Spenser: collected into one volume, and carefully corrected. [catalog lists title as: "The faerie queene, disposed into XII. bookes, fashioning twelue morall vertues."]
Repository: Oxford U Wadham College
Shelfmark: A39.1
Published by: H[umphrey]. L[ownes]
Published for: Mathew Lownes
Published Location: London
Published date: 1611
Copynotes: Correspondence with librarian Sandra Bailey, 7/7/10: The Faerie Queene 1609 The Second Part of the Faerie Queene 1609 The Shepheards Calender 1611 Colin Clovts come home againe [no date] Prothalamion 1611 Amoretti and Epithalamion 1611 Fovre Hymnes 1611 Daphnaida 1611 Complaints 1611 A letter of the Authors [no date provided]
Editionnotes: In verse. Printer’s name from STC. A reissue of the 1609 edition of ’The faerie queene’, with a cancel title-page dated 1611, serving as a collective titlepage for the author’s works. In this issue of the ’Faerie queen’, stanza 1 on sig. B3r begins "Yo~ug knight," and the catchword on R3r is "She". The colophon is dated 1609. ’The second part of The faerie queene’ has a separate titlepage dated 1609. ’A letter of the authors, expounding his whole intention in the course of this worke’ (STC 23086.3) has a caption title, and separate register. In this issue of ’The author’s letter’, The first line of text ends: "Alle-". ’The shepheards calender’ (STC 23093.5) has a separate titlepage dated 1611, separate pagination, and register. ’Colin Clouts’ (STC 23077.3), ’Prothalamion’, ’Amoretti and Epithalamion’, ’Foure Hymnes’, ’Daphnaida’, and ’Complaints containing sundry small poemes of the worlds vanitie’, ’The teares of the muses’, and ’Muiopotmos, or The fate of the butterfly’, have separate titlepages with the imprint: "At London printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes", and continuous register. Includes translations of Du Bellay’s ’Les antiquitez de Rome’ and ’Visions’, Vergil’s ’Gnat’, and Petrarch’s ’Visions’. Signatures: [pi] A-Hh⁶ Ii²; parag³[i.e.⁴]; [pi³] A-E⁶ F-F⁴; A-L⁶ M-M². Signature F⁴ (2nd sequence) is blank.
Record Author: checked by NS 7/6/10
Record Source: catalog
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Siglum: OWA_FQU_004
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