The works of Mr. Edmund Spenser. : In six volumes. With a glossary explaining the old and obscure words.
Edmund Spenser, John Hughes, Theodore Bathurst, William Dillingham, Jacob Tonson (Bookseller)
Print Book, English, M. DCC. XV. [1715]
Printed for Jacob Tonson at Shakespear's Head, over against Catherine-street in the Strand, London;, M. DCC. XV. [1715]
History
6 v. : ill. ; 17 cm (12mo)
175074
v. 1.: A letter of the author explaining his design in the poem of the Fairy Queen
Verses to the author of the Fairy Queen
Verses of the author, with his Fairy Queen, to several persons of quality
Fairy Queen, Bk. I
V. 2.: Fairy Queen, Bk. II-III
V. 3: Fairy Queen, Bk. IV-V
V. 4: Bk. Vi-VII
Shepherd's Calendar
Colin Clout's come home again
Virgil's Gnat
V. 5.: Prosopopoia or, Mother Hubberd's Tale
Amoretti, or Sonnets
Poems
Prothalamion
Epithalamion
Fo ur Hyms
Daphnaida
Muiopotmos
The tears of the muses
The visions of Petrach
The ruines of Rome
Visions of the world's vanity
Astrophel
The mourning muse of Thestylis
A pastoral aeglogue upon the death of Sir Philip Sidney
an elegy, or, Friend's passion for his Astrophel
An epitaph upon the Right Honourable Sir Philip Sidney
V. 6.: The ruines of time
Britain's Ida
A view of the state of Ireland
Calendarium pastorale, sive Aeglogae Duodecim
Letters between Mr. Spenser and Mr. Gabriel Harvey
Issued in fine and ordinary paper copies; there are minor differences in typesetting between the two issues
Paged continuously (viii, cxl, 1758 p.). Fine paper copies have xviii p. at front of collation, p. ix-xviii being "Subscribers to the royal paper of Spenser's works."
Head- and tail-pieces; initials
Signatures: v.1: A⁴ a-e¹² f¹⁰ B-H¹² I⁸; v.2: K-2A¹²; v.3: 2B-2O¹²; v.4: 2P-3D¹²; v.5: pi² 3E-3Q¹²; v.6: pi² 3R-4E¹² 4F⁸
"Errata"--Page cxl
Includes Theodore Bathurst's Latin translation of Spenser's Shepherd's calendar, under title Calendarium pastorale (p. 1673-1744), edited by William Dillingham