| Editionnotes: | By Edmund Spenser, whose name appears on A1v.
In verse.
First word of title is xylographic.
The second part has separate dated title page on Q5r; pagination and register are continuous.
"Tvvo cantos of mutabilitie", p. 353-end.
The last leaf is blank.
Signatures: A-Y⁶, 2A-2H⁶, 2I⁴.
Variant: books 4-7 in the 1612/13 setting (see other record for characteristics).
"The first folio edition of the Fairy queen, and the first edition of the ’Two cantos of mutabilitie,’ etc."--British museum catalogue.
"Two cantos of mutabilitie" (p. 353-363) has running title: The seventh booke of the Faerie queene.
Special t.p. reads: The second part of the Faerie Queene : containing the fourth, fift, and sixt booke / by Ed. Spenser. Imprinted at London : For Matthew Lownes, 1609.
Signatures: A-Y⁶ 2A-2H⁶ 2I⁴.
A letter ... to Sir Walter Raleigh (23. Januarie. 1589) --A vision upon this conceit of The Faerie queene -- The shepheards calender -- Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds tale (1613) -- Colin Clouts come home again -- The mourning muse of Thestylis -- A pastorall aeglogue upon the death of Sir Philip Sidney -- An elegie, or friends passion -- Protalamion or A spousall verse -- Amoretti and Epithalamion -- Epithalamion -- Foure hymnes -- Daphnaida. An elegie -- Complaints containing sundry small poemes of the worlds vanitie -- The tears 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.
|
