[Faerie Queene disposed into XII Bookes fashioning the twelve Morall Vertues] ... The Shepheards Calendar and Minor Poems. London: Matthew Lownes, 1609-1611. Folio, 3 works in one volume (260 x 170 mm). Additional mounted engraved portrait of Spenser, early 19th century typeset title (replicating the first folio edition of 1609) and similar typeset first leaf of text (leaves A1-2), 2 stanzas of A3 cut out and substituted with 19th century typeset text, the title to second part of the Faerie Queene dated 1609, but lacking the final blank Ii4; with the 8 leaf letter to Raleigh and commendary sonnets, the last leaf blank; followed by the Shepheards Calendar, A-E6, F4, the last leaf blank, 34 leaves, title dated 1611, and Minor Poems, A-C6, D5, comprising Colin Clouts come Home Againe, undated, Prothalamion, 1611, Amoretti and Ephalamion, 1611. Minor Poems lacking all after D5. Some minor damp staining to the first few quires, a few small marginal tears. Early 19th century half calf, worn, joints cracked upper cover almost detached. Provenance: Mary Horssy (two leaves in the Minor Poems signed at lower margin); Michael the Lord of Douglass (signature on lower margin of A3); Edward Peacock. 1787-1848, of Fifehead, [A Vicarage in Dorset]. (19th century armorial bookplate). The first collected edition of Spenser's bibliographically complex Works. Two years after Lownes had issued the first edition of the Faerie Queene, he decided to publish a collected edition of Spenser's works, taking the first edition leaves and adding the Shepheards Calendar and Minor Poems, whilst changing the general title. This copy collates in accordance with Pforzheimer 972, excepting the replication of the general title from the 1609 edition and without the blank I4. In addition the Minor Poems has only the first 3 of the 6 poems, which have a variant collation to Pforzheimer 972, ending on D5 with Finis and no catchword, suggesting that this issue may well be an early variant of the first collected edition. Pforzheimer 972; STC 23084.
[Faerie Queene disposed into XII Bookes fashioning the twelve Morall Vertues] ... The Shepheards Calendar and Minor Poems. London: Matthew Lownes, 1609-1611. Folio, 3 works in one volume (260 x 170 mm). Additional mounted engraved portrait of Spenser, early 19th century typeset title (replicating the first folio edition of 1609) and similar typeset first leaf of text (leaves A1-2), 2 stanzas of A3 cut out and substituted with 19th century typeset text, the title to second part of the Faerie Queene dated 1609, but lacking the final blank Ii4; with the 8 leaf letter to Raleigh and commendary sonnets, the last leaf blank; followed by the Shepheards Calendar, A-E6, F4, the last leaf blank, 34 leaves, title dated 1611, and Minor Poems, A-C6, D5, comprising Colin Clouts come Home Againe, undated, Prothalamion, 1611, Amoretti and Ephalamion, 1611. Minor Poems lacking all after D5. Some minor damp staining to the first few quires, a few small marginal tears. Early 19th century half calf, worn, joints cracked upper cover almost detached. Provenance: Mary Horssy (two leaves in the Minor Poems signed at lower margin); Michael the Lord of Douglass (signature on lower margin of A3); Edward Peacock. 1787-1848, of Fifehead, [A Vicarage in Dorset]. (19th century armorial bookplate). The first collected edition of Spenser's bibliographically complex Works. Two years after Lownes had issued the first edition of the Faerie Queene, he decided to publish a collected edition of Spenser's works, taking the first edition leaves and adding the Shepheards Calendar and Minor Poems, whilst changing the general title. This copy collates in accordance with Pforzheimer 972, excepting the replication of the general title from the 1609 edition and without the blank I4. In addition the Minor Poems has only the first 3 of the 6 poems, which have a variant collation to Pforzheimer 972, ending on D5 with Finis and no catchword, suggesting that this issue may well be an early variant of the first collected edition. Pforzheimer 972; STC 23084.
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