The Faerie Queene: The Shepheards Calendar: Together with the Other Works of England's Arch-Poët
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Overview:
- Title: The Faerie Queene: The Shepheards Calendar: Together with the Other Works of England's Arch-Poët
- Author: Edmund Spenser
- Year: 1611
- Publisher: Mathew Lownes
- Pages: 606
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Omnibus
- Title Reference: The Faerie Queene
- Notes:
- Full pagination details: [4]+363+[29]+56+[2]+16+[136].
- First collected edition of Spenser's works. Only "The Faerie Queen" is genre for us.
- A reissue of the 1609 edition of "The Faerie Queene", with a title-page dated 1611. The second part of "The Fairy Queen" has a separate title page with the original 1609 date. The first issue of this collection was in 1611 for the first part, and 1613 for the second part. A second issue was printed later, probably about 1615 (stated second issue, but with no publication date).
- Book covers were not standardized at this time, so the title page is shown instead.
- Book also includes the following non-genre titles, with 1611 publication dates: The shepherd's calendar; Colin Clouts come home again; Prothalamion; Amoretti and Epithalamion; Foure hymns; Daphnaida an elegie upon the death of the noble ... ; Complaints containing sundry small poemes of the worlds vanitie; The teares of the muses; Virgils gnat; The ruines of Rome / by Bellay; Moiopotmos, or The fate of the butterfly; Visions of the worlds vanitie; The visions of Petrarch; and A letter of the authors, expounding his whole intention in the course of this worke. Later printings included "Prosopopoia" and "Mother Hubberds Tale".
- Believed to have been edited by Gabriel Harvey.
- Data from Christie's Auction House, WorldCat, and PBA Galleries.