The faerie queen: The shepheards calendar: together with the other works of England's arch-poët, Edm. Spenser: collected into one volume, and carefully corrected.
1611
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Details
Title
The faerie queen: The shepheards calendar: together with the other works of England's arch-poët, Edm. Spenser: collected into one volume, and carefully corrected.
Uniform title
Works
Created/published
[London] : Printed by H[umphrey]. L[ownes]. for Matthew Lownes, Anno. Dom. 1611 [i.e. 1615?]
Description
[4], 363, [3] p. ; (fol.)
Associated name
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599, author.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner.
Note
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.
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.
Publications about material
Fleck, Andrew "Early modern marginalia in Spenser's Faerie Queene at the Folger" (Notes and queries, 55:2 (June 2008): 165-170
Folger-specific note
Curatorial file available.
ESTC staff note
Match subsidiary parts separately.
Signatures from DFo. DFONOTE blg colophon 2H5v has date: "16012" (i.e. 1612)
Signatures from DFo. DFONOTE blg colophon 2H5v has date: "16012" (i.e. 1612)
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 23084
Johnson, F.R., Crit. bib. of the works of Edmund Spenser, 19
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 973
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S123122
Johnson, F.R., Crit. bib. of the works of Edmund Spenser, 19
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 973
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S123122
Genre/form
Annotations.
Manicules.
Manicules.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
STC 23084 copy 1
Folger-specific note
4/6/40. Manuscript notes and markings (manicules, etc.) of Sir Brook Bridges throughout; manuscript epitaph for the author ("Writ under his Tomb") on t.p. verso; quotation from Ovid on F1v; "How True!" on F5r; final blank with manuscript biographical notes: "Some Accou[n]t of the Authour's Life." Bound in extra-gilt green goatskin by Lloyd, Wallis & Lloyd; all edges gilt; bound at end are these other works of Spenser: A letter of the authors ([London, 1611]; STC 23086.3); The shepheards calendar (London, 1611; STC 23093.5); Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds tale (London, 1612; STC 23087); Colin Clouts come home againe [and other minor works] (London, [1611]; STC 23077.3). Provenance: inscribed on blank at end of STC 23086.3: "Brook Bridges's Book" (Sir Brook Bridges, Bart., d. 1728); inscribed on t.p.: "Alexr. [Alexander] Wood" (also "M.A. Wood", A2r); Hodgson sale, 22 Nov. 1929, no. 829; Folger purchase from Herbert Ford, 1940 (Folger files)
Call number
STC 23084 copy 2
Folger-specific note
HH195/14. Wanting final blank 2H6. Ded. leaf (pi2) torn and repaired. Bound at end are these works by Spenser: A letter of the authors ... ([London, 1611]; STC 23086.3); Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds tale (London, 1612; STC 23087); The shepheards calender (London, 1611; STC 23093.5); Colin Clouts come home againe [and other minor works] (London, [1611]; STC 23077.3); bound in full modern brown goatskin. Provenance: Harmsworth copy
Call number
STC 23084 copy 3
Folger-specific note
Smedley. Leaf A2 torn and repaired, affecting text; manuscript notes: pp. 5, 17; rust-hole, affecting text: pp. 329-30. Bound with these other works of Spenser: A letter of the authors ... ([London, 1611]; STC 23086.3); The shepheards calender (London, 1611; STC 23093.5); Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds tale (London, 1612; STC 23087); Colin Clouts come home againe [and other minor works] (London, [1611]; STC 23077.3); bound in old calf. Provenance: manuscript marks of ownership scribbled out on A2r; W.T. Smedley copy
Call number
STC 23084 copy 4
Folger-specific note
cs13. Wanting the blank. T.p. torn, repaired, and mounted; pp. 1-3, 236-37, 349 stained, affecting text; rust-holes affecting text on pp. 342-44; manuscript notes (or inscriptions? - trimmed), pp. 3, 15. Bound with these other works of Spenser: The shepheards calender (London, 1611; STC 23093.5); Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds tale (London, 1612; STC 23087); Colin Clouts come home againe [and other minor works] (London, [1611]; STC 23077.3); A letter of the authors ... ([London, 1611]; STC 23086.3); bound in old paneled calf gilt, all edges gilt. Provenance: marks of ownership trimmed away from t.p.; pencil numbered on front free endpaper: "3601"; 4 clippings from dealer catalogs affixed to front free endpaper; Folger purchase from Maggs, 17 June 1895, no. 677