The faerie queen ; The shepheards calendar ; together with the other works of Englands arch-poët, Edm. Spenser : collected into one volume, and carefully corrected
Edmund Spenser, Thomas Carter (Former owner), Edwin Durning-Lawrence (Former owner), Joachim Du Bellay, Francesco Petrarca, Humphrey Lownes (Printer), Matthew Lownes (Publisher), John Newman (Former owner), E. C. Hammond (Former owner), Vergil
Print Book, English, Anno Dom. 1617
Printed by H[umphrey]. L[ownes]. for Mathew Lownes, [London], Anno Dom. 1617
[4], 363, [3]; [10], 56, [2]; 16; 26; 4; [16]; [134] pages ; 27 cm (fol.)
940410628
Includes translations of Du Bellay's 'Les antiquitez de Rome' and 'Visions', Vergil's 'Gnat', and Petrarch's 'Visions'
In verse
Printer's name from STC
The colophon is dated "16012" [sic]
Issued with STC 23086.7, 23094, 23077.7, and 23087. Some copies have STC 23087.5 in place of the last
A reissue of STC 23084, with cancel general title page and dedication
B3r stanza 1 begins "Young Knight"; R3r catchword "And."
The second part has separate title page dated 1612; pagination and register are continuous. Variant: this title page dated 1613
'The shepheards calender' (STC 23093.7) has a separate titlepage dated 1617, separate pagination, and register
'Colin Clouts' (STC 23077.3), 'Prothalamion', 'Amoretti and Epithalamion', 'Foure Hymnes', 'Daphnaida', and 'Complaints containing sundry small poemes of the worlds vanitie', 'The teares of the muses', and 'Muiopotmos, or The fate of the butterfly', have separate titlepages with the imprint: "At London printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes", and continuous register
Includes translations of Du Bellay's 'Les antiquitez de Rome' and 'Visions', Vergil's 'Gnat', and Petrarch's 'Visions'