B22494
Shelfmark
I.Tbs FQ
Author
Spenser, Edmund
Uniform title
[Works]
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.
Varying form of title
Second part of The faerie queene
Publication, distribution, etc.
[London] :, Printed by H[umphrey].L[ownes]. for Mathew Lownes. Anno Dom,, 1611 [1615?].
Physical description
[4], 363, [3]p ;, 27cm.
Note
In verse.
Note
Contains loose ms. notes about "The Faerie Queen".
Note
Printer's name from STC.
Note
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.
Note
The last leaf is blank.
Note
Signatures: A6(-A1+pi²) B-P6 Q4 R-2H6.
Note
Ideally issued with STC 23086.3, 23093.5, 23077.3, and 23087, though some copies have parts from the 1617 editions.
Note
Colophon 2H5v has date: "16012" (i.e. 1612).
Citation/references note
STC (2nd ed.), 23084; Johnson, F.R., Crit. bib. of the works of Edmund Spenser, 19; Pforzheimer, 973; ESTC S123122
Provenance
Book plate of Eton College School Library.
Provenance
Book-label and plate of Major General Villiers Hatton.
Binding
20th? century brown calf; double gold fillet to form a border; five raised bands; spine title.
Added entry--name
Lownes, Matthew, bookseller.
Added entry--name
Lownes, Humphrey, printer.
Added entry--name
Hatton, Villiers, Major General,, former owner.
Added entry--name
Eton College School Library
Added entry--place
England, London.
B22494
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