Shelfmark
Gn.1.04(02)
Author
Title
The shepheards calender. Containing twelve aeglogues, proportionable to the twelve moneths. Entituled, to the noble and vertuous gentleman, most worthy of all titles, both of learning and chivalrie. Master Philip Sidney.
Varying form of title
The shepheards calender. Containing twelve æglogves, proportionable to the twelve moneths. Entitvled, to the noble and vertuous gentleman, most worthy of all titles, both of learning and chiualrie. Master Philip Sidney
Varying form of title
Shepheardes calender
Varying form of title
Spenser's works
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed by Bar: Alsop for Iohn Harrison the elder, and are to bee solde at his shop at the signe of the golden Anker in Pater Noster Row, 1617.
Physical description
[10], 56, [2] p : ill. (woodcuts) ; 28 cm. (Fo.)
Note
"To his booke" signed: Immerito, i.e. Edmund Spenser.
Note
Usually bound with the 1617 issue of his: The faerie queen.
Note
Signatures: A-E⁶, F⁴(F4 is blank).
Note
Elaborate ornaments on title-page and chapter headings.
Citation/references note
STC (2nd ed.), 23094
Citation/references note
ESTC, S122009
Additional physical form available
Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1974. 1 microfilm reel; 35mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 1365:3, 1396:3).
Provenance
Ms. note on title-page and on first page of 'Ianvarie': 'Ex libris [1810] Gul. Henderson'.
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.
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
Bound with three other items, shelfmarks Gn.1.04(01)-(04): (1) The Faerie Queene, (3) Mother Hubert's Tale, (4) Colin Clout's Come Home Again.
Subject
Calendar Early works to 1800.
Subject
English poetry Early modern, 1500-1700.
Added entry--name
Henderson, William former owner.
Added entry--name
Hatton, Villiers, 1852 - 1914 Major General, former owner.
Added entry--name
Alsop, Bernard printer.
Added entry--name
Harrison, John, ? - d. 1642 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Eton College School Library former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B24835