SPENSER, EDMUND. The Faerie Queen: The Shepheards Calendar: Together with the other Works of England's Arch-Poët... Collected into one Volume, and carefully corrected. [London]: H.L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes, 1611 [i.e. 1617]. General title with decorated woodcut border, The Shepheards Calendar with woodcut illustrations, numerous woodcut titles, initials, and other decorations throughout. Small folio, contemporary calf, worn, rebacked; general title margins trimmed and mounted, some browning and staining throughout, some marginal wear, a few tears (crossing text), some contents misbound. Collected edition, later issue, with contents as follows: The Faerie Queene, lacking separate title (The Second part with title dated 1613); The Shepheards Calendar, 1617; Prosopopoia. Or, Mother Hubberds Tale, 1613; Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, n.d.; Prothalamion, London, 1617; Amoretti and Epithalamion, 1617; Epithalamion, 1617; Foure Hymnes, 1617; Daphnaida. An Elegie upon the Death of the Noble and vertuous Douglas Howard, 1617; Complaints containing Sundry small poems of the Worlds Vanitie, 1617; The Teares of the Muses, 1617; Muiopotmos, or The Fate of the Butterfly, London, 1617. See STC 23084. Sold not subject to return.

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SPENSER, EDMUND. The Faerie Queen: The Shepheards Calendar: Together with the other Works of England's Arch-Poët... Collected into one Volume, and carefully corrected. [London]: H.L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes, 1611 [i.e. 1617]. General title with decorated woodcut border, The Shepheards Calendar with woodcut illustrations, numerous woodcut titles, initials, and other decorations throughout. Small folio, contemporary calf, worn, rebacked; general title margins trimmed and mounted, some browning and staining throughout, some marginal wear, a few tears (crossing text), some contents misbound. Collected edition, later issue, with contents as follows: The Faerie Queene, lacking separate title (The Second part with title dated 1613); The Shepheards Calendar, 1617; Prosopopoia. Or, Mother Hubberds Tale, 1613; Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, n.d.; Prothalamion, London, 1617; Amoretti and Epithalamion, 1617; Epithalamion, 1617; Foure Hymnes, 1617; Daphnaida. An Elegie upon the Death of the Noble and vertuous Douglas Howard, 1617; Complaints containing Sundry small poems of the Worlds Vanitie, 1617; The Teares of the Muses, 1617; Muiopotmos, or The Fate of the Butterfly, London, 1617. See STC 23084. Sold not subject to return.
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