Shelfmark
Gn.1.04(01)
Author
Uniform title
[Works]
Title
The faerie queen: The shepheards calendar: with the other works of England's arch-poët, Edm. Spenser: collected into one volume, and carefully corrected.
Varying form of title
The faerie qveen
Varying form of title
Spenser's works
Publication, distribution, etc.
[London] : Printed by H[umphrey]. L[ownes]. for Matthew Lownes., Anno Dom. 1617.
Physical description
[4], 363, [3] p ; 28 cm. (Fo.) ill. (woodcuts);
Note
Printer's name from STC.
Note
The colophon is dated "16012" [sic].
Note
The second part has separate title page dated 1612; pagination and register are continuous. Variant: this title page dated 1613. This copy has the second title page dated 1613.
Note
A reissue of STC 23084, with cancel general title page and dedication.
Note
Signatures: A⁶(-A1+pi²), B-P⁶, Q⁴, R-Hh⁶ (Hh6 blank).
Note
Issued with STC 23086.7, 23094, 23077.7, and 23087. Some copies have STC 23087.5 in place of the last.
Note
Elaborate ornaments on title-page and chapter headings.
Citation/references note
STC (2nd ed.), 23085
Citation/references note
ESTC, S122304
Additional physical form available
Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1974. 1 microfilm reel; 35mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 1365:3).
Provenance
19th-century bookplate of Eton College School Library on front flyleaf recto of sammelband.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Major General Villiers Hatton (1852-1914) on front pastedown of sammelband.
Provenance
Ms. note on title-page: 'Ex libris 1810 Gul: Henderson'.
Provenance
Crossed-out, handwritten name on title-page: 'Philip Purton'.
Binding
Sammelband. 17th-century brown panelled calfskin over pasteboard. Double blind fillet along the border of both covers. Spine with five raised bands, decorated with gilt fillets, now faded; gilt titling with decorated roll over red label ('Spenser's Works'). Single endbands with alternating plain and red thread. Textblock untrimmed, flat, and dyed red. Endpapers of undecorated wove paper; three flyleaves at upper end of textblock, one at the lower end.
Copy-specific note
Ms. notes on first flyleaf recto.
Copy-specific note
Bound with three other items, shelfmarks Gn.1.04(02)-(04): (2) The Shepherd's Calendar, (3) Mother Hubert's Tale, (4) Colin Clout's Come Home Again.
Copy-specific note
Ms. list of texts in this first item of sammelband, in a ?19th-century hand, on front flyleaf verso.
Copy-specific note
Crossed-out, handwritten name on title-page verso: 'David Herd'.
Subject
Knights and knighthood Poetry.
Subject
Virtues Poetry.
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
Eton College School Library former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B24834