Gn.1.13(04)
Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds tale. By Edm. Sp. Dedicated to the right Honourable, the Lady Compton and Mountegle.
Prosopopoia
Mother Hubberds tale
At London : Printed by H[umphrey]. L[ownes]. for Mathew Lownes., Anno Dom. 1613.
16 p. ; 27 cm. (Fo.)
Edm. Sp. = Edmund Spenser.
Printer's name from STC.
Running title reads: Mother Hubberds tale.
Signatures: A⁸.
Intended to be issued with "The faerie queen", STC 23083.7-23085.
Issued with other items, shelfmarks Gn.1.13(01)-(05): (1) The fearie queene; (2) Letter to Raleigh and Commendatory Poems, &c.; (3)The Shepheards Calendar; (5) Colin Clout's Come Home Againe.
STC (2nd ed.), 23087
ESTC, S110877
Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1974, 1984. 1 microfilm reel; 35mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 1365:3, 1671:25).
Armorial bookplate of Eton School Library, dated 1991, with ex dono of Major General Villiers Hatton on front endpaper recto.
Armorial bookplate of Major General Villiers Hatton (1852-1914) on front pastedown.
?20th-century panelled brown calfskin over paste/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 2] Variant: Eton copy dated 1612. Imprint dated 1613.
Contains loose ms. notes about "The Faerie Queen".
Bookseller's undated advertisement with handwritten notes in pencil on front pastedown.
Lownes, Humphrey, ? - -1629 printer.
Lownes, Matthew bookseller.
Hatton, Villiers, 1852 - 1914 Major General, former owner.
Riviere & Son binder.
Eton College School Library former owner.
England London.
eng
B22504