Shelfmark
Gn.1.13(04)
Author
Title
Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds tale. By Edm. Sp. Dedicated to the right Honourable, the Lady Compton and Mountegle.
Varying form of title
Prosopopoia
Varying form of title
Mother Hubberds tale
Publication, distribution, etc.
At London : Printed by H[umphrey]. L[ownes]. for Mathew Lownes., Anno Dom. 1613.
Physical description
16 p. ; 27 cm. (Fo.)
Note
Edm. Sp. = Edmund Spenser.
Note
Printer's name from STC.
Note
Running title reads: Mother Hubberds tale.
Note
Signatures: A⁸.
Note
Intended to be issued with "The faerie queen", STC 23083.7-23085.
With note
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.
Citation/references note
STC (2nd ed.), 23087
Citation/references note
ESTC, S110877
Additional physical form available
Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1974, 1984. 1 microfilm reel; 35mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 1365:3, 1671:25).
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 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-specific note
[Copy 2] Variant: Eton copy dated 1612. Imprint dated 1613.
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
Lownes, Humphrey, ? - -1629 printer.
Added entry--name
Lownes, Matthew bookseller.
Added entry--name
Hatton, Villiers, 1852 - 1914 Major General, former owner.
Added entry--name
Riviere & Son binder.
Added entry--name
Eton College School Library former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B22504