Shelfmark
Gn.1.13(01)
Author
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. [i.e. 1615?]
Physical description
[4], 363, [3] p. ; 27 cm (Fo.)
Note
Printer's name from STC.
Note
The last leaf is blank.
Note
Intended to be issued with "The faerie queen", STC 23083.3-23084.
Note
Signatures: A⁶(-A1+pi²) B-P⁶ Q⁴ R-2H⁶.
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
Decorated title page and chapter titles.
Note
’The second part of The faerie queene’ has a separate titlepage dated 1613.
Note
Signatures from colophon 2H5v has date "16012" (i.e. 1612).
With note
Issued with other items, shelfmarks Gn.1.13(02)-(05): (2) Letter to Raleigh and Commendatory Poems, &c.; (3)The Shepheards Calendar; (4) Mother Hubber's Tale; (5) Colin Clout's Come Home Againe.
Citation/references note
ESTC, S123122
Additional physical form available
Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1967, 1985. 1 microfilm reel. 35mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 1117:13, 1858:46).
Additional physical form available
Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1997. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, Tract supplement ; E4:1(Harl.5927[69])).
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton School Library, dated 1991, with ex dono of Major General Villiers Hatton on front endpaper recto.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Major General Villiers Hatton (1852-1914) on front pastedown.
Binding
?20th-century panelled brown calfskin over ?millboards. Double gold fillet to form a border of the covers, board edges, and turn-ins. Spine with five raised bands; gold fillets and titling ("Spenser's Faerie Queene", "London 1611"). Single endbands with alternating red, plain, and green thread. Texblock rounded and gilted. Bound by Riviere and Son.
Copy-specific note
Contains loose ms. notes about "The Faerie Queen".
Copy-specific note
Bookseller's undated advertisement with handwritten notes in pencil on front pastedown.
Added entry--name
Hatton, Villiers, 1852 - 1914 Major General, former owner.
Added entry--name
Lownes, Humphrey, ? - -1629 printer.
Added entry--name
Lownes, Matthew bookseller.
Added entry--name
Riviere & Son binder.
Added entry--name
Eton College School Library former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B22500