Shelfmark
Gn.1.13(03)
Author
Uniform title
[Shepheards calender]
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 tvvelve æglogves, pro-portionable to the twelve moneths. Entitvled, to the Noble and vertuous Gentleman, most worthy of all titles, both of learning and chiualrie, Master Philip Sidney
Publication, distribution, etc.
At London, : Printed by H[umphrey]. L[ownes]. for Mathew Lownes, and are to be sold at the signe of the Bishops head in Paules Church-yard., 1611..
Physical description
[10], 56, [2] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 28 cm. (Fol.)
Note
"To his booke" on title page verso, signed Immeritò (i.e. Edmund Spenser).
Note
Usually issued with one of the later issues of Lownes' edition of The faerie queene (STC 23083-23084)
Note
Signatures: A-E⁶, F⁴ (F4 is blank).
Note
Printer's name from STC.
Note
Woodcut printer's device on title page.
Note
Initials, head- and tail-pieces.
With note
Issued with other items, shelfmarks Gn.1.13(01)-(05): (1) The fearie queene; (2) Letter to Raleigh and Commendatory Poems, &c.; (4) Mother Hubber's Tale; (5) Colin Clout's Come Home Againe.
Citation/references note
STC, 23093.5
Citation/references note
ESTC, S123124
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton School Library, 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.
Added entry--name
Spenser, Edmund, 1552? - 1599 Works. 1611.
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
B50836