| Title: | The works of Mr. Edmund Spenser. In six volumes. With a glossary explaining the old and obscure words. Publish'd by Mr. Hughes.
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| Repository: | Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern U Library
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| Shelfmark: | 821.3.S74 1715 c. 2
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| Published for: | Jacob Tonson
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| Published Location: | London
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| Published date: | 1715
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| Copynotes: | Library c.2 contains engraved bookplates of George Carr, "indicating that the set was a prize awarded to George Carr by Trinity College Dublin in 1738; the bindings for all six volumes include the gold-tooled seal of the college." (Correspondence of July 15, 2009).
v. 1. Life of Mr. Edmund Spenser. Essay on allegorical poetry. Remarks on the Fairy queen. Remarks on the Shepherd’s calendar. Glossary explaining the old and obscure words in Spenser’s works. Fairy queen, bk. I. -- v. 2-3. Fairy queen, bk. II-V -- v. 4. Fairy queen, bk. VI-VII. Shepherds calendar. Colin Clout’s come home again. Virgil’s Gnat -- v. 5. Prosopopoia. Amoretti. Poems. Prothalamion. Epithalamion. Four Hymns. Dapnaida. Muiopotmos. Tears of the muses. Visions of Petrarch. Visions of Bellay. Ruines of Rome. Visions of the world’s vanity. Astrophel. Mourning muse of Thestylis. Pastoral æglogue upon the death of Sir Philip Sidney Kt. &c.. Elegy or friend’s passion for his Astrophel. Epitaph upon the right honourable Sir Philip Sidney Knight -- v. 6. Ruines of time. Britains’s Ida. View of the state of Ireland. Calendarium pastorale. Letters between Mr. Spenser and Mr. Gabriel Harvey.
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| Editionnotes: | Pp.ix-xviii in the first sequence contain a list of subscribers. Issued in fine and ordinary paper copies; there are minor differences in typesetting between the two.
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| Record Author: | Nathan Sasser 7/15/2009; NS 6/11/10
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| Record Source: | catalog
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| Siglum: | NWS_WKS_001
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