Spenser, Edmund

Folio (10 3/4 x 7 in.; 274 x 178 mm). General cancel title within woodcut border (McKerrow & Ferguson 212), separate title for Part II of "The Faerie Queen" (dated 1612 with continuous register and pagination), separate titles each with separate register and pagination for "The Shepheards Calendar" (dated 1611) and "Mother Hubberds Tale" (dated 1612),  separate title-pages (all but "Colin Clouts Come Home Againe" dated 1611) for the remaining nine works with new, continuous register but no pagination, numerous woodcuts at the head and foot (McKerrow & Ferguson 180–181 head/foot; 183; 184–186 head/foot; 187 foot; and 16 others not recorded therein), the first stanza of each canto of "The Faerie Queen" within a cartouche of four woodcut components, woodcut vignettes of each month of the year flanked by printer's ornaments in "The Shepheards Calendar," woodcut printer's devices (Part II, "The Faerie Queen": McKerrow 335 [title-page] and 221 [colophon]; "Epithalamion" 119; "Four Hymnes" and "Tears of the Muses" 353; "Complaints" 149), woodcut tailpiece (cf. McKerrow 363), woodcut initials; dampstaining in quire Y of Part II, "The Faerie Queen," quire B of "Colin Clouts" browned, dampstaining in "Epithalamion," "Four Hymnes," and "Complaints." Polished red morocco double-filleted gilt, the spine in seven compartments gilt, the compartment tooled with a lion's head on brown morocco, a light tan lettering-piece in the second, marbled endpapers, edges gilt; tiny crack at foot of spine of upper joint.

Charles Crompton (signature, annotations and date "1668" on title-page) — Henry Edward Bunbury (armorial bookplate and sale, Sotheby's, July 1891).

STC 23084; ESTC S123122; Pforzheimer 973

Folio (10 3/4 x 7 in.; 274 x 178 mm). General cancel title within woodcut border (McKerrow & Ferguson 212), separate title for Part II of "The Faerie Queen" (dated 1612 with continuous register and pagination), separate titles each with separate register and pagination for "The Shepheards Calender" (dated 1611) and "Mother Hubberds Tale" (dated 1612), separate title-pages ( all but "Colin Clouts Come Home Againe" dated 1611) for the remaining nine works with new, continuous register but no pagination, numerous woodcuts at the head and foot (McKerrow & Ferguson 180–181 head/foot; 183; 184–186 head/foot; 187 foot; and 16 others not recorded therein), the first stanza of each canto of "The Faerie Queen" within a cartouche of 4 woodcut components, woodcut vignettes of each month of the year flanked by printer's ornaments in "The Shepheards Calendar," woodcut printer's devices (Part II, "The Faerie Queen": McKerrow 335 [title-page] and 221 [colophon]; "Epithalamion" 119; "Four Hymnes" and "Tears of the Muses" 353; "Complaints" 149), woodcut tailpiece (cf. McKerrow 363), woodcut initials; dampstaining in quire Y of Part II, "The Faerie Queen," quire B of "Colin Clouts" browned, dampstaining in "Epithalamion," "Four Hymnes," and "Complaints." Polished red morocco double-filleted gilt, the spine in seven compartments gilt, the compartment tooled with a lion's head on brown morocco, a light tan lettering piece in the second, marbled endpapers, edges gilt; tiny crack at foot of spine of upper joint.
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First collected edition, third "reissue" (STC has conjectured an imprint date of 1615 for Part I).  The text of Part I has been reset, with stanza 1 of B3r beginning "Young Knight." The catchword on R3r of Part II reads "And."