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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, [S.L.] I [Spenser - 1611] (STC 23083.3)

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: U of London Library
Shelfmark: [S.L.] I [Spenser - 1611] (STC 23083.3)
Published by: H[umphrey] L[ownes]
Published for: Mathew Lownes
Published Location: London
Published date: 1611
Copynotes: Bound in red morocco by Henry Young and sons. According to the Online Card Catalog, this is the 1st edition of the Collected Works, with the 1609 FQ; the rest of the separate titlepages are 1611. (The first edition typically lacks Prosopopoia--cf. Johnson). (Note that there seem to be two items with the same call number). Correspondence of 6/9/10: General t.p.: 1611 Pt. 1 FQ: 1609 Pt. 2 FQ: 1609 SC: 1611 CCCHA: 1611 Letter to Raleigh: 1611 Prosopopoia: n/a Order of Contents: [S.L.] I [Spenser – 1611] (STC 23083.3) Faerie queen – Letter to Raleigh etc – Shepheards Calender – Colin Clouts – Prothalamion – Amoretti & Epithalamion – Foure Hymnes – Daphnaida – Complaints
Editionnotes: In verse. Printer's name from STC. B3r stanza one begins "You[n]g knight"; catchword on R3r is "She". A reissue of the 1609 edition of the 'Faerie queen', with a cancel t.p. dated 1611, serving as a collective t.p. for the author's works. 'The shepheards calender' (STC 23093.5) has a separate t.p. 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 t.p.s with the imprint: "At London printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes", and continuous register.
Record Author: Cait Martinez 7/21/09; NS 6/9/10; EG 04/13/2018
Record Source: Repository catalog; correspondence
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Siglum: ULL_WKS_004
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