Accession number
PML 195360
Creator
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
Published
London : Printed by Henry Hills for Jonathan Edwin, at the Three Roses in Ludgate-street, 1679.
Credit line
Purchase: Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2010.
Notes
Engraved frontispiece plate of Spenser's tomb.
Signatures: leaf (t.p.) unsigned. A-Z¹. Aa-Zz¹. Aaa-Zzz⁴. Aaaa-Iiii⁴ (Aaaa lettered Aaa). Kkkk¹. Aaaaa Ccccc⁴.
Frontispiece and title are mounted.
T.p. printed in red and black.
Most of the pieces have special title-pages dated 1678; Prosopopoia and The shepherds calendar have also separate paging.
The shepherds calendar has numerous errors in paging. A catalogue of books printed for Jonathan Edwin (1 leaf) inserted after p. 258.
"Brittain's Ida", first ascribed to Spenser in 1628 by Thomas Walkley, is now generally assigned to Phineas Fletcher.
Signatures: leaf (t.p.) unsigned. A-Z¹. Aa-Zz¹. Aaa-Zzz⁴. Aaaa-Iiii⁴ (Aaaa lettered Aaa). Kkkk¹. Aaaaa Ccccc⁴.
Frontispiece and title are mounted.
T.p. printed in red and black.
Most of the pieces have special title-pages dated 1678; Prosopopoia and The shepherds calendar have also separate paging.
The shepherds calendar has numerous errors in paging. A catalogue of books printed for Jonathan Edwin (1 leaf) inserted after p. 258.
"Brittain's Ida", first ascribed to Spenser in 1628 by Thomas Walkley, is now generally assigned to Phineas Fletcher.
Description
[10], 339, 16, [8], 258 (i.e. 254), 369, 391, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (engraving) ; 33 cm.
Inscriptions/Markings
With the text of the Shepheardes calendar annotated in pencil with brief notes and markings attributed to Samuel Palmer. Cf. Lister.
Provenance
Bookplate of Pamela and Raymond Lister; from the libraries of Samuel Palmer, with his annotations, and Graham Sutherland; purchased from Quaritch catalog 1388 (item 73), 2009.
Binding
Contemporary calf, rebacked.
Classification
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