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The faerie queen: the shepheards calendar: together with the other works of England's arch-poet, Edm. Spenser: : Collected into one volume, and carefully corrected., 1611, Pat.44

Title: The faerie queen: the shepheards calendar: together with the other works of England's arch-poet, Edm. Spenser: : Collected into one volume, and carefully corrected.
Repository: National Library of Scotland
Shelfmark: Pat.44
Published by: H[umphrey]. L[ownes]
Published for: Mathew Lownes
Published Location: London
Published date: 1611
Copynotes: In correspondence of 5/31/10, a NLS librarian gives the following order of constituent parts: General Title page and FQ, Prosopopoia, Shepheardes Calender, Colin Clouts, Letter to Raleigh. Each work has a separate title page. Place of publication from colophon of pt.1. Title page of pt.2 dated 1612. Leaf F4 of pt.3 is blank.
Editionnotes: In verse. Printer’s name from STC. A third "reissue" of the 1609 edition, though 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). 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. The last leaf is blank. Signatures: A⁶(-A1+pi²) B-P⁶ Q⁴ R-2H⁶. Ideally issued with STC 23086.3, 23093.5, 23077.3, and 23087, though some copies have parts from the 1617 editions.
Record Author: checked by EJS 10/21/09; NS 6/1/10
Record Source: online catalogue; correspondence
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Siglum: NLS_CCC_001
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