| Copynotes: | contemporary binding, but is probably not suitable for microfilming since the front joint is splitting.
Note: In this copy, t.p. of part 2 is dated 1613.
Bookplate: Library bookplate (1737) of Wake bequest on inside of upper board (type 2) on inside of upper board, pasted over previous bookplate, unseen.
Bookplate: Library bookplate (no. 4) of Christ Church, Oxford, pasted on verso of first free upper end-paper.
Binding: Full plain dark calf, with blind triple fillets near edges of boards, gilt roll on edges of boards, textblock edges sprinkled red, 6 raised bands, blind fillets and dark leather label with gilt lettering on spine, remains of green ties.
Note: Binder's waste inserted at front and back of volume, ms. ink on vellum.
Size: 29 cm.
Previous shelfmark: In ms. ink on first free upper end-paper, crossed out: "D.3.32 Strat." and "K.1.2.14.".
Bound with: 2) Prosopopoia (STC 23087); 3) Colin Clouts come home againe (STC 23077.3); 4) A letter of the authors, expounding his whole intention in the course of this worke (STC 23086.3); 5) The shepheards calender (STC 23093.5)
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| Editionnotes: | Three "reissues" of the 1609 edition bear a title page dated 1611. In this issue both parts are now actually in later settings. Part 1 still has the 1611 cancel title page and conjugate dedication of the first reissue (STC 23083.3, ESTC S123523). The text of part 1 has now been reset (the 1615 date conjectured by STC); B3r stanza 1 begins "Young Knight". Part 2 still has separate title page dated 1612 or 1613 (stop-press variants) and R3r catchword reads "And". Pagination and register are continuous.
"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.
Ideally issued with STC 23086.3, 23093.5, 23077.3, and 23087, though some copies have parts from the 1617 editions.
Each part catalogued separately, following the ESTC practice.
In verse.
Printer's name from STC.
Part two has dated title page on R1, reading: "The second part of The faerie queene".
Title page border: at the top, the crest of the Sidneys, a boar inside an oval compartment, with a bear on one side and a lion on the other; at the sides of the title, scrollwork and two pedestals, with a shepherd on the left and an Amazon on the right; at the bottom, a boar with sweet marjoram and the motto "Non tibi spiro" on a background of hills and a church. See McKerrow and Ferguson (M1989), no. 212.
Ornamental borders surrounding the title of each canto, tail-pieces.
Signatures: A6(-A1+pi2) B-P6 Q4 R-2H6.
The last leaf is blank.
Colophon on 2H5v, printed between head- and tail-pieces and with central printer's device (star surrounded by motto "os homini sublime dedit" and initials HD, originally of Henry Denham) reads: "London, printed by H.L. for Matthew Lownes."; it is dated: "16012." (i.e. 1612).
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