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Spenser (Edmund). [The Faerie Queen: The Shepheards Calendar: together with the other works of England’s arch-poet, Edm. Spenser: collected into one volume, and carefully corrected, London: Printed by H. L. for Mathew Lownes, 1611], [2], 363, [19]; [10], 56, [2]; [134] pp., lacking general title (with photograph facsimile of 1609 Faerie Queene title provided in its place), separate title pages for second part of Faerie Queen (dated 1609) and other works with printer's woodcut devices, numerous woodcut head & tailpieces and some illustrations, final leaf of Faerie Queen signature 2I4 blank and F4 (2nd sequence) also blank, occasional early annotations and marks etc., some dampstaining mostly at head (also to fore-edge of initial leaves) and one or two marginal tears, general toning throughout, some browning and marks, initial 12 leaves detached with upper board, later endpapers (without front free endpaper), contemporary calf with mottled surface, old reback without title label, boards detached, rubbed and board corners worn, folio (Qty: 1) STC 23083.3; ESTC S123523 and Pforzheimer 972. This is a reissue of the 1609 edition of ’The Faerie Queene’, which would have had a cancel title-page dated 1611, serving as a collective titlepage for the first collected edition of the author’s works. In this issue of the ’Faerie queen’, stanza 1 on sig. B3r begins "Yo~ug knight," and the catchword on R3r is "She". The colophon is dated 1609. ’The second part of The Faerie Queene’ has a separate titlepage dated 1609. ’A letter of the authors, expounding his whole intention in the course of this worke’ (STC 23086.3) has a caption title, and separate register. In this issue of ’The author’s letter’, the first line of text ends: "Alle-". ’The shepheards calender’ (STC 23093.5) has a separate titlepage dated 1611, 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’, all 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’.