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The faerie qveen: the shepheards calendar: together with the other works of England's arch-poet, Edm. Spenser: collected into one volume, and carefully corrected
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| Title | The faerie qveen: the shepheards calendar: together with the other works of England's arch-poet, Edm. Spenser: collected into one volume, and carefully corrected |
| Detail Depicted | Printing -- Page design (Leaf [superscript 4]C4 recto)
Printing -- Decorative elements -- Head and tail pieces (Leaf [superscript 4]C4 recto)
Printers and publishers -- Marks and colophons (Leaf [superscript 4]C4 recto) |
| Uniform Title | Faerie queene |
| Creator/Author | Edm. Spenser [Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599] |
| Publisher | Printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes. (on title page for works) [Lownes, Matthew, d. 1625] |
| Place of Publication | At London [England--London] |
| Date of Publication | Anno Dom. 1617. |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Knights and Knighthood--Poetry
Virtues--Poetry
English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700
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| Genre Heading | Early printed books--1601-1700 (17th century)
Political works
Literary works
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| Bibliographic Elements | 1 p. b., [595] p. front., port |
| Printing Method | Letterpress on handmade laid paper |
| Printer | Printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes. [Lownes, Humfrey, d. 1629] |
| Image Production Process | Woodcuts
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| Binding | Rebacked in the 20th century. Late 17th century? leather boards, sewn on 6 cords. Simple blind rule tooling on covers.
Sewn headbands.
All edges trimmed, with evidence of red sprinkling. |
| General Notes | Signatures: (fol.): A[superscript 6] (-A1, +chi1, 2) B-P[superscript 6] Q[superscript 4] R-2H[superscript 6], [superscript 2]A-E[superscript 6] F[superscript 4], [superscript 3]A[superscript 8], [par.][superscript 8], [superscript 4]A-L[superscript 6] M[superscript 2] [$3 (- [superscript 2]E3; +A4, B4, N4, [superscript 3]A4) signed; missigning [superscript 2]C3 as S3]; 303 leaves, pp. [4] 1-121 [122] 123-185 [186-188] 189-245 [246] 247-363 [364] [12] 1-56 [2], [1-4] 5-16 [152] [misnumbering 8 as 10, 32 as 23].
Woodcut title page.
Woodcut head and tail pieces.
Woodcut printers mark on colophon printed with cracked block. |
| Previous Owners | Bookplate with Edward Venncript on front endsheet |
| Language | English |
| Digital Collection | Historical Book Arts Collection |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Special Collections |
| Call Number | SpecColl Rare Books Uncat. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned in RGB color using an Olympus C-2000 Zoom digital camera and saved in.jpg format and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2003 |
| Content | Works title page (1617) - Dedication to Elizabeth - Books 1-3 of The Faerie Qveene - Books 4-6 of The Faerie Qveene (1613) - Book 7 of The Faerie Qveene, or Two cantos of mutability (16I12 on colophon) - The shepheards calendar title page (1617) - Dedication to Gabriel Harvey - The epistle - The argument - Prosopopoia, or Mother Hubberds tale title page(1613) - - Dedication to the Lady Compton and Mountegle - Prosopopoia text - A letter of the avthors, expounding his whole intention in the course of this worke - separate dedications to Sir Christopher Hatton, the Lo. Burleigh, the Earle of Oxenford, the Earle of Northumberland, the Earle of Cumberland, the Earle of Essex, the Earle of Ormond and Offorie, and the Lo. Ch. Howard, Lo. high Admirall of England, Lord of Hunfdon, the Lord Grey of Wilton, Lord of Buckhurst, Sir Fr. Walingham, Sir Ioh. Norris, Sir Wal. Raleigh, and the Countesse of Penbroke - Colin Clovts come home againe title page - Dedication to Sir Walter Raleigh - Clovts text - Astrophel, a pastorall elegie vpon the death of the most noble and valorous knight, Sir Philip Sidney - The mourning Muse of Theftylis - A pastoral aeglogue vpon the death of Sir Philip Sidney, Knight, &c.[3 dots] - An elegie, or friends passion, for his Aftrophell - Prothalamion or a spovsall verse (1617) - Amoretti and Epithalamion title page (1617) - Amoretti text - Epithalamion title page - Epithalamion text - Fovre hymnes (1617) title page - - Dedication to the Ladie Magaret, Countesse of Cumberland, and the Lady Mary, Countesse of Warwicke - text of the hymns - Daphnaida, an elegie vpon the death of the noble and vertuous Douglas Howard - Dedication to Lady Helena, Marquesse of North-hampton - Daphnaida text - Complaints containing svndry small peomes of the worlds vanitie title page(1617) - table of contents for the poems - Dedication to the ladie Marie, Countesse of Pembrooke for The ruines of time - The printer to the gentle reader - The rvines of time - The teares of the mvses title page (1617) - Dedication to the Ladie Strange - Teares text - Virgils Gnat - The ruines of Rome: by Bellay - Mviopotmos, or the fate of the bvtterfly (1617) - Dedication to the Ladie Carey - Bellay text - Visions of the worlds vanitie - The visions of Bellay - The visions of Petrarch |
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