A CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
OF THE WORKS OF
EDMUND SPENSER
JOHNA PUBLICATION OF
THE TUDOR AND STUART CLUB
OF
THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
Founded in 1918 by Sir William and Lady Osler in Memory of Their Son,
Edward Revere Osler, 1895-1917LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESSA CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
OF THE WORKS OF
EDMUND SPENSER
PRINTED BEFORE 1700
By FRANCIS R. JOHNSON, M. A. (Oxon.)
Baltimore
THE JOHNS HOPKINS PRESSCopyright 1933, The Johns Hopkins Prbss
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BY J. H. FURST COMPANY, BALTIMORE, MARYLANDFOREWORD
The Tudor and Stuart Literary Club at The Johns Hopkins University
commemorates a young officer of the British light artillery in the World
War—Lieutenant Edward Revere Osier, 1895-1917,—only child of the
founders, Sir William and Lady Osier. The nucleus of the Club’s library
was the collection made by this youth before his death on the battlefield;
and it was understood that in continuing it by the purchase of choice and
significant works rather than by assembling a miscellaneous Elizabethan
library the Governors would be fulfilling the wishes of the donors. Ac-
cordingly, since 1923 it has been their policy to collect intensively in one
author at a time, first Edmund Spenser, next Michael Drayton, and at
present Samuel Daniel.
Books have not been acquired, however, merely to gather the rarities
sought by collectors; but primarily to promote scholarship. The Spenser
Collection won instant approval from the late Edwin Greenlaw when he
came to Johns Hopkins, and was an important stimulus to the undertaking
there of a variorum edition of Spenser under Dr. Greenlaw’s editorship.
As a further contribution to scholarship the Governors have desired to
expand the list of Spenser first editions included, with other matters, in
the Club Book of 1927 into a critical catalog of the Collection with the
collation of the copies known to exist in other public and private libraries.
This task they have fortunately been able to entrust to the competent hands
of Mr. Francis R. Johnson, a member of the Club, now associated with the
Huntington Library in California. They present the result of his labors as
a fulfilment of the wish of Sir William and Lady Osier to further " the
encouragement of the study of English literature in the Tudor and Stuart
periods ” and as a contribution to the study of one of the greatest of
English poets.
John C. French, Curator.PREFACE
This book aims to supply the need which Spenser scholars have long
felt for an adequate bibliography of the early editions of the poet’s
works. Such bibliographical material as has been hitherto available has
not only been widely scattered through the introductions to the modern
editions of Spenser and in the printed catalogues of important libraries
and private collections; but different authorities have often disagreed
with respect to essential points. In the preparation of this work, there-
fore, previous bibliographical notices have been disregarded, except in so
far as they call attention to special points which should be verified when
examining the original editions themselves. In every instance this bibli-
ography is based upon the personal examination and collation of a num-
ber of different copies of each edition, supplemented by checks of other
copies supplied through the kindness of correspondents.
In preparing the descriptions of these early editions of Spenser, three
objects have been kept in mind: first, to give a detailed and accurate
bibliographical description of the copy used; second, to note important
variants exhibited by other copies of the same edition, and, where possi-
ble, to give a logical explanation of why these variations exist; third, to
note any bibliographical peculiarities which would indicate the possi-
bility of textual corrections having been made in some copies, but not in
others. In connection with this third object, no attempt, of course, has
been made at any complete textual collation. That is the province of the
textual editor and is now being done in the course of the preparation of
the new Variorum Edition of the Works of Edmund Spenser, volumes of
which are being issued at intervals by The Johns Hopkins Press. Where,
however, tables of variant readings have been printed by previous editors,
these have in some cases been checked in the copies examined in the course
of the present survey.
Only the printed editions of Spenser appearing prior to the begin-
ning of the 18th Century are considered in this bibliography. It therefore
aims to include all editions up to the first one that was ” edited ” in the
modern sense; namely, that of Hughes in 1715. Manuscript copies of
Spenser’s works have been disregarded. Except for the View of the State
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of Ireland, of which many manuscripts exist antedating the first printed
edition of 1633, the extant manuscripts of Spenser’s Works all seem to
be derived from copies of the printed editions. None have been definitely
proved to possess any independent authority.
The copies used as the basis for the bibliographical descriptions in
this work are those in the Spenser collection of the Tudor and Stuart
Club of The Johns Hopkins University, except in the case of the few items
not present in this collection. Although lacking copies of some of the
rarest original editions, such as the 1579 Shepheardes Calender, the 1591
Daphnaida, and the Spenser-Harvey Letters of 1580, the Tudor and
Stuart Club Spenser collection may be justly considered one of the world’s
finest working collections of the poet’s works. It is the only collection,
except those at the British Museum and Trinity College, Cambridge, that
has two or more copies of each of the Faerie Queene Quartos. Moreover,
in respect to later editions of Spenser and works of criticism, both so
essential to scholarly work, its collection is probably more complete than
those of any existing libraries except the Bodleian and British Museum,
while, for the few rare early editions that it lacks, it possesses excellent
photostatic facsimiles. For these reasons, and also because its copies are
being used in connection with the preparation of the first variorum edition
of Spenser’s works since Todd’s edition in 1805, it is especially fitting that
a bibliography of the early editions of Spenser should be based primarily
on the collection in the Tudor and Stuart Club Library.
A word should be said here concerning the list of Other Copies given
under each item in this bibliography. This list is in no way intended as a
census of existing copies of Spenser editions. In each case it lists only
those copies which I have personally examined, or which have been
checked for me by others, supplemented in some instances by a few addi-
tional copies whose present location I have happened to note in the
course of the preparation of this work. For the rarest items; that is,
items of which less than ten copies could be traced, I have endeavored to
make my list as complete as possible. Where more than ten copies exist,
I have set down only those which actually came to my attention, without
any attempt to trace the many other copies known to exist. In some cases,
it will be noted, I have added an estimate of the total number of existing
copies. These estimates, of course, are to be regarded as no more than
expressions of personal opinion, based upon impressions gathered duringPREFACE
vii
the course of this survey; but I believe they should be reasonably close to
the truth. They are included merely to give an indication of the relative
availability of the different items.
Without the generous cooperation of a great many different persons
a work such as the present bibliography would have been impossible, and
my obligation to the following individuals for their interest and help is a
very real one. First of all, I am indebted to Dr. Ray Heffner of the
Spenser Research Unit at The Johns Hopkins University, who first sug-
gested the preparation of this bibliography, and to the Board of Governors
of the Tudor and Stuart Club, and particularly to Dr. John C. French,
Curator of the Club, for their interest and assistance, which made possible
the completion of this work. To Dr. Heffner, also, I owe much valuable
advice and criticism at each stage of the preparation of this book, and
assistance in going over the proofs.
Special thanks are due to Mr. John W. Pendleton, who undertook the
large task of checking the copies in the British Museum and Bodleian
Libraries; to Dr. Ernest A. Strathmann, who did the same for the Spenser
items in the Huntington Library, and to Dr. Henry Guppy for checking
the editions in the John Rylands Library. To Professor Frederick Morgan
Padelford I owe the data on the copies in the library of the University
of Washington, as well as the notes concerning his apparently unique
copy of the Axiochus. Mr. Harold Stein has checked for me the Spenser
items in the Cambridge University Library and the Library of Trinity
College, Cambridge.
Mr. William A. Jackson has kindly passed on to me much useful
information on a number of bibliographical points, and Mr. F. S. Fergu-
son gave generously of his time in checking the copy of the Faerie Queene
formerly belonging to William Herbert, and in tracing one elusive orna-
ment in the Complaints, thereby making possible a positive identification
of the printer of that volume.
I wish to thank a certain Boston collector, whom, in deference to his
own wishes, I will not name, for the privilege of examining his very fine
collection of Spenser editions, many of which were formerly in the Huth
Library. The title-page to the former Huth-Clawson copy of the 1579
Shepheardes Calender is reproduced in this volume through his kind per-
mission. Mr. C. H. Pforzheimer has also generously cooperated by giving
me the opportunity to examine the splendid collection of Spenser itemsviii
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in his library, and by permitting the reproduction of his, the former Brit-
well, copy of the Spenser-Harvey Letters. Through the kindness of Mr.
Lucius Wilmerding I also had the privilege of seeing the copies of
Spenser’s works in his library.
It is a pleasure to acknowledge here the many courtesies of Dr.
A. S. W. Rosenbach, who made available for my use the numerous copies
of early editions of Spenser now in the possession of the Rosenbach Com-
pany, both in New York and in Philadelphia. Mr. Gabriel Wells, also,
freely placed at my disposal the Spenser items in his possession.
Sir R. L. Harmsworth and the Reverend Roderick Terry cooperated
most generously by having all the early editions of Spenser in their
libraries checked for a number of bibliographical points. Similarly, I am
indebted to the librarians of the Chapin and the Newberry Libraries for
carefully checking the Spenser items in those collections.
To the librarians and staffs of the following libraries whose Spenser
collections I have examined, I wish to express my sincere appreciation of
the courtesy and assistance which they extended to me throughout my
work on this bibliography: The Folger Shakespeare Library, the Pier-
pont Morgan Library, the Library of Congress, the Boston Public Library,
the Harvard University Library, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the
Yale University Library, the Yale Elizabethan Club, the New York Public
Library, the Wellesley College Library and the Library Company of
Philadelphia. Special acknowledgment is made to the following indi-
viduals, firms and libraries for the careful attention they gave to specific
queries addressed to them: Mr. George Arents, Jr., Mr. A. Edward
Newton, Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., Charles J. Sawyer, Ltd., Mr. P. J. Dobell,
the Cornell University Library, the Edinburgh University Library, the
Hunterian Museum, Glasgow University, the Chicago University Library,
and Mr. H. M. Adams, Librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge. I also
wish to thank the Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California,
for permission to reproduce the title-page to the Huntington copy of
Daphndida, 1591, and Dr. James G. McManaway of The Johns Hopkins
University for many helpful criticisms during the course of this work.
Although whatever degree of completeness this work may attain is
necessarily due in a large measure to the cooperation of others, the final
responsibility for the opinions advanced and for the accuracy of this
bibliography is, of course, entirely my own. That the large store ofPREFACE	ix
bibliographical material contained in this volume should be entirely free
from errors and from oversights is too much to expect. I trust that I have
succeeded in almost wholly eliminating incorrect statements regarding
observed facts. On the other hand, I am certain that many collectors,
bibliographers and Spenser scholars, from their special knowledge of
particular points and of other copies of the poet’s works, will be able to
supplement the matter of this bibliography with important information
which it ought to have included. It is hoped that the appearance of
this volume will encourage them to make their special information
available to all who are interested in the early editions of one of England’s
greatest poets.
F. R. J.TITLE-PAGES REPRODUCED IN THIS VOLUME
--------	FACING
PAGE
1.	The	Shepheardes Calender, 1579 ........................................2
(From the Huth-J. L. Clawson copy, now in the library of a
Boston collector ; the first four letters in the word " monethes ”,
damaged in this copy, have been restored.)
2.	The	Spenser-Harvey Letters, 1580	.............................	10
(From the former Britwell copy, now in the library of Mr. C.
H. Pfrozheimer.)
3.	The Faerie Queene, 1590.................................................11
(From the Tudor and Stuart Club copy.)
4.	The Faerie Queene, 1596 ................................................	18
(From the Tudor and Stuart Club copy.)
5.	The Second Part of the Faerie Queene, 1596	.................	20
(From the Tudor and Stuart Club copy.)
6.	Daphnatda, 1591.........................................................23
(From the copy in the Henry E. Huntington Library.)
7.	Complaints, 1591........................................................24
(From the Tudor and Stuart Club copy.)
8.	Amoretti and Epithalamion, 1595	.............................	28
(From the Tudor and Stuart Club copy.)
9.	Colin Clouts Come home againe, 1595	.........................	30
(From the Tudor and Stuart Club copy.)
10.	Fowre Hymnes, 1596 .....................................................	31
(From the Tudor and Stuart Club copy.)
11.	Prothalamion, 1596	............................................	32
(From the Tudor and Stuart Club copy.)EXPLANATORY NOTES ON THE ARRANGEMENT, SYMBOLS, ETC.
Arrangement. The works are arranged in this bibliography in the order of
the date of publication of their first editions. Subsequent editions, except when
they form a part of an edition of the collected works, follow immediately after the
description of the first edition. Each item has been assigned a number for purposes
of reference.
Title-pages. The quasi-facsimile method of transcribing title-pages has not been
adopted because all the more important title-pages are reproduced in photographic
facsimile. Instead, all titles are transcribed in roman type, and the Elizabethan
practice is consistently followed in making changes from capitals to lower case.
Thus ' QVEENE ’ is transcribed as ' Queene ’ and * VNIVERSITIE ’ as ' Vniuersi-
tie.’ In transcribing lines printed entirely in capitals a capital has been used for
the first letter of each word. It seemed best to adopt this consistent rule rather than
to imitate the vagaries of the Elizabethan compositors in this matter.
Italic type. In the contents collations, italic type indicates a verbatim tran-
scription.
Unsigned gatherings. The suggestion made by Dr. R. B. McKerrow and fol-
lowed by Mr. Madan, Dr. Greg and others has been adopted here, and the symbol
[•7r] used to designate a gathering which is wholly unsigned.
References. The following works frequently cited in the text are designated by
the indicated abbreviations for greater convenience in reference:
McKerrow: R. B. McKerrow, Printers’ and Publishers’ Devices in England and
Scotland 1485-1640. London: The Bibliographical Society, 1913.
Arber: Edward Arber, A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers
of London; 1554—1640. 5 vols. London, 1875-94.
TPB: R. B. McKerrow and F. S. Ferguson, Title-page Borders used in England
and Scotland 1485—1640. London: The Bibliographical Society, 1932.
Plomer: A Transcript of the Registers of the Worshipful Company of Stationers;
from 1640-1708 A.D. 3 vols. London, 1913-14. [Transcribed by H. R.
Plomer.]
STC: A. W. Pollard and G. R. Redgrave, A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed
in England, Scotland, & Ireland And of English Books Printed Abroad 1475—
1640. London: The Bibliographical Society, 1926.
Heawood: Edward Heawood, " Sources of Early English Paper-Supply: II. The
Sixteenth Century,” The Library, Fourth Series, X (1930), pp. 427-454.
Symbols used for libraries and other owners. On the following page is a table
of the symbols used to designate the libraries and other owners having copies of
the early editions pf Spenser’s works. The symbols used in the Short-Title Cata-
logue have been adopted wherever possible. When one of these symbols appears
without any asterisk prefixed (e. g., FOLG.) this indicates that that particular copy
has been personally examined by the compiler of this bibliography. A single asterisk
prefixed to the symbol (e. g., *0.) indicates that the copy has been collated and
checked for this bibliography by a correspondent. A double asterisk before the
symbol (e. g., **WS.) indicates that the copy has not been checked, but that the
information concerning it has been obtained from printed catalogues or other sources.
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xiiiSYMBOLS USED FOR LIBRARIES AND OTHER OWNERS OF EARLY
EDITIONS OF SPENSER’S WORKS
AAS.	American Antiquary Society,
Worcester, Mass.
ALM.	Edward Almack.
AEN.	A. E. Newton.
BA.	Boston Athenaeum Library.
BC.	A Boston Collector; see the
Preface.
BO.	Boston Public Library.
C.	Cambridge University Library.
C2.	Trinity College, Cambridge.
C3.	Emmanuel College, Cam-
bridge.
C14.	Fitzwilliam Museum.
CH.	Chapin Library.
CHAT.	Chatsworth Library.
CORN.	Cornell University Library.
CWC.	C. W. Clark.
D.	Trinity College, Dublin.
D2.	Marsh Library, Dublin.
DO.	P. J. & A. E. Dobell.
DOM.	L. W. Dommerich.
E.	Advocates’ Library, Edinburgh
(National Library of Scot-
land) .
E2.	Edinburgh University Library.
E3.	Signet Library, Edinburgh.
EWS.	E. W. Sheldon.
FOLG.	Folger Shakespeare Library.
FUR.	J. Furthman.
G.	Hunterian Museum, Glasgow.
GA.	George Arents, Jr.
GW.	Gabriel Wells.
HAIGH.	Haigh Hall, Wigan (Crawford
Library).
HD.	Harvard University Library.
HERB.	William Herbert’s copy of the
Faerie Queene, now in the
library of an English col-
lector.
HH.	Sir R. L. Harmsworth.
HN.	Henry E. Huntington Library.
HS.	Harold Stein.
JHU.	Johns Hopkins University
	Library.
L.	British Museum, London.
L6.	Dyce Library, Victoria and
	Albert Museum.
L18.	Victoria and Albert Museum
LP.	Library Company of Phila-
	delphia.
M.	John Rylands Library, Man-
	chester.
MHS.	Massachusetts Historical So-
	ciety.
N.	Newberry Library, Chicago.
NWL.	N. W. Lyly.
N.Y.	New York Public Library.
O.	Bodleian Library, Oxford.
PFOR.	C. H. Pforzheimer.
PML.	Pierpont Morgan Library.
Q.	Bernard Quaritch, Ltd.
RNY.	Rosenbach Company. (New
	York.)
ROS.	A. S. W. Rosenbach.
RPH.	Rosenbach Company. (Phila-
	delphia. )
RT.	Roderick Terry.
T.	University of Texas Library.
TOR.	University of Toronto Library.
TS.	Tudor and Stuart Club, Johns
	Hopkins University.
UCH.	University of Chicago Library.
UW.	University of Washington
	Library, Seattle.
WAC.	W. A. Clark, Jr.
WASH.	Library of Congress, Wash-
ington.
WELL. Wellesley College. (Palmer
Collection. )
WH.	W. A. White estate.
WILM.	Lucius Wilmerding.
WR.	Wrenn Library, University of
	Texas.
WS.	T. J. Wise.
Y.	Yale University Library.
YEC.	Yale Elizabethan Club.
YK.	York Minster.
xivLIST OF BOOKS
1	A THEATRE FOR WORLDLINGS (containing epigrams and
sonnets translated by Spenser)	1569
Title: [within a rule, within a border of type ornaments, within a rule]
A Theatre | wherein be repre- | sented as wel the miseries & ca- |
lamities that follow the vo= | luptuous Worldlings, | As also the greate
ioyes and | plesures which the faith= j full do enioy. | An Argument
both profitable and | delectable, to all that sincerely | loue the word of
God. | Deuised by S. Iohn van- | der Noodt. | [floret] Seene and
allowed according | to the order appointed. | 5 Imprinted at London
by | Henry Bynneman. | Anno Domini. 1569. | Cum Priuilegio.
Colophon: [S2r]: [head-piece:	a band of type ornaments] |	Imprinted	at	Lon-	|
don by Henrie Bynneman, |	dwelling in Knight riders streat,	at	]	the	signe	of
the Marmaid. | Anno. 1569. | Cum Priuilegio Ad Impri- | mendum Solum. |
[tail-piece: a diamond-shaped type ornament].
Format and Collation: Octavo:	A—R8, S2; 138 leaves.
First 5 leaves of each gathering	signed, except title-page and S2.
Foliation: Commencing with [D7r], leaves numbered 1 to 107 in the upper right-
hand corner of each recto.
Errors in foliation: 14 for 21; 23 for 25. Other copies, including *HN., have 101
for 107.
Contents: [Alr], Title; [Alv], Woodcut of the royal arms; A2r—A2V, Two com-
mendatory poems in Latin, addressed to van der Noodt; A3r-Blr, Dedicatory
epistle to Queen Elizabeth, dated The. 25. of May. 1569. and signed lean vander
Noodt; Blv—[B7r], Six Epigrams, printed on the versos, with an emblematic
woodcut facing each of them on the following rectos; [B7V], concluding qua-
train to the Epigrams', [B8r]-[D6r], Fifteen Sonets; except for the introductory
sonnet on B8r, each sonnet is printed on a verso, and has an emblematic woodcut
facing it on the following recto; [D6V], blank; [D7r]-Slv, A Briefe Declara-
tion of the Author vpon his visions, take\n\ out of the holy scriptures, and
dyuers Orators, Poetes, Philosophers, and true histories. Translated out of
French into Englishe by Theodore Roest.; [S2r], Colophon; [S2V], Device of
Henry Bynneman (McKerrow No. 149).
The text of the dedication is printed in roman type, the poems in italic and the prose
treatise in black-letter, with marginal notes in small roman.
Running-titles: A3V—Blr, The Epistle; Blv—[B6V], Epigrams, [on versos only];
[B8r]-D5v, Sonets, [on versos only, except for B8r]; [D7v]-Slv, A Theatre |
for worldlings.
The running-title to the epistle is printed in italic type, the others in roman.
Entry in Stationers’ Register: [the 4th entry for the period 22 July, 1569 to 22
July, 1570; hence, probably not later than August, 1569]
bynnyman Recevyd of henry bynnyman for his lycense for the pryntinge of a boke in-
tituled theatrie or mirror .... vjd
[Arber, I, 398.]
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A CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF
Copy used: The former Crawford—W. A. White copy, now in the Harvard Uni*
versity Library.
Other copies: BC. [Huth copy] ; PFOR. [Britwell copy]; RPH. [Gollancz copy:
imperfect, leaf Dl in facsimile]; *HN. [Locker-Lampson—Church copy];
**CORN.; **L.; **0.; **HH.
Notes: 1. Spenser scholars are now agreed in accepting the Epigrams and Sonets in this
volume as the earliest work of the poet’s that has come down to us. Editions in French
and in Flemish of the Theatre had been brought out by van der Noodt in the previous
year. These editions contain the same twenty emblematic woodcuts that appear in the
English edition. Spenser was probably employed by van der Noodt to assist with the
English version of the poems, just as Theodore Roest was called in to translate the prose
treatise. Although van der Noodt never suggested that Spenser was the translator of the
poems, the six Epigrams, unaltered except for the addition of two lines to numbers 2, 4, 5
and 6 to make them regular 14-line sonnets, were reprinted in the Complaints in 1591
under the title: The Visions of Petrarch formerly translated. There seems to be no reason
to doubt Spenser's own claim to the authorship of these translations. The concluding
quatrain of the Epigrams is replaced in the Complaints by a new sonnet.
2.	All of the Sonets in the Theatre except the last four were revised by Spenser and
included under the title of The Visions of Bellay in the Complaints in 1591. The revision
consisted of a much freer, more poetic rendering in rhyme, in the regular sonnet form,
of what in the earlier version had been a more faithful blank-verse translation.
3.	The fullest recent discussion of the relationship between the Flemish, French and
English editions of the Theatre and of Spenser's connection with van der Noodt and the
English edition is to be found in the article by W. J. B. Pienaar, " Edmund Spenser and
Jonker Jan van der Noot,” English Studies, VIII (1926), pp. 33-44 and 67-76.
2	THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER	[First edition] 1579
Title: The | Shepheardes Calender | Conteyning tvvelue .¿Eglogues pro-
portionable j to the twelue monethes. | Entitled | To The Noble And
Vertu- | ous Gentleman most worthy of all titles | both of learning
and cheualrie M. | Philip Sidney. | (	|	[ornament]	|	At	London.	|
Printed by Hugh Singleton, dwelling in | Creede Lane neere vnto
Ludgate at the | signe of the gylden Tunne, and | are there to be
solde. | 1579.
Colophon: [N4V]: [band of type ornaments] | [ornament: a lady’s head between
cornucopias, 50 x 51 mm. (see Note 1 below) ] | Imprinted at London by Hugh j
Singleton, dwelling in Creede lane j at the signe of the gylden | Tunn neere
vnto | Ludgate.
Format and Collation: Quarto:	4, A-N4; 56 leaves.
All leaves of each gathering signed, except 1, C3, C4, D4, H4, 13, K3, M3, M4, N3
and N4.
Foliation: Commencing with Alr, leaves numbered Fol. 1 to fol. 52 in the upper
right-hand corner of each recto.
Errors in foliation: 37 for 38; 39 for 40; 94 for 49.
Contents: [ft lr], Title; [fl lv], Poem To His Booke signed lmmeritd\ 2r-fl 3V,
Dedicatory epistle To the most excellent and learned both Orator and Poete,
Mays ter Gabrieli Haruey, his verie special and singular good frend E. K. com-THS
Conteyning twelue ^Eglognes proportionable
to (be ttnetae mcmftges»
Entitled
TO THE NOBLE AND VERTV
ous Gentlemen moH Teortkj of dll titles
both of learning and cheualrieM.
Philip Sidney,
(*•*)
AT LONDON.
Printed by Hugh Singleton, dwelling in
Creede Lane neere vnto Ludgate at the
iijne of t&e gptocu ^unne3anD
are there to be iòide.
*179»THE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER
3
mendeth the good lyking of this his labour, and the patronage of the new Poete.
signed E. K. and followed by a postscript dated 'from my lodging at London
thys 10. of A prill. 1579-',	4r—11[ 4V, The generall argument of the whole booke.
[text set in roman type] ; Alr-[N4r], The twelve eclogues, one for each month,
each preceded by an illustrative woodcut and an Argument and followed by a
Glosse; [N4V], Colophon as described above.
The woodcuts occur on Alr, A3r, B4r, [C3▼], [D4r], F2y, G2r, H3r, [I3r], K4r, L4r
and [M4V]. Each has a design suitable to the subject of the eclogue to which it is pre-
fixed, and has the appropriate sign of the zodiac in the heavens. The argument of each
eclogue is set in italic type, the poem itself in black-letter and the glosse in small roman.
Running-titles:	2V-|[ 3V, Epistle.', Alr—[N4*], different running-title for each
eclogue, consisting of the name of the month in italic type.
Entry in Stationers’ Register: .5. Decembris [1579]
Hughe Singelton Lycenced vnto him the Shepperdes Calender conteyninge xij ecloges
proportionable to the xij monthes . . . vjd
[Arber, II, 362.]
Copy used: The Huth—J. L. Clawson copy, now in the library of a Boston collector.
Other copies: PFOR. [Britwell copy] ; *HN. [Heber—Gott—Church copy, im-
perfect]; *L. [Heber—Grenville copy]; *0.; *C2. [Capell copy]. Only these
six copies are known.
Notes: 1. The Huth—J. L. Clawson copy has the earlier, uncorrected, state of the outer
form of the final, N, sheet. On Nlr, fol. 49 has been misnumbered fol. 94, while on
[N4V], between the ornamental band and the colophon, there is the same woodcut orna-
ment of a lady’s head between cornucopias which had been used as a tail-piece on Glv
and I2V. The revised state of this form, found in all other known copies, has the mis-
print in foliation corrected and Hugh Singleton’s device (McKerrow No. 198) substi-
tuted for the ornament on the colophon page.
2.	This is the first edition of The Shepheardes Calender, and the only one possessing
any genuine textual authority. There is no evidence to show that Spenser was responsi-
ble for the text of the later editions issued during his lifetime. [For a full discussion
of the textual relationships between this edition and the later Quartos see Ernest de
Selincourt’s edition of Spenser’s Minor Poems (Oxford, 1910), pp. vi-xvi.]
3	THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER [Second edition] 1581
Title: [within a border of type ornaments] The | Shepheardes Calender j
Conteining twelue ^Eglogues proportio-1 nable to the twelue | Monethes. j
Entitled | To The Noble And Vertu- | ous Gentleman most worthy
of all titles, both | of learning and cheualrie M. | Philip Sidney. | (•.•) |
[ornament] | 5 Imprinted at London for Iohn | Harison the younger,
dwelling in Pater | noster Roe, at the signe of the Anker, and | are
there to be solde.
Colophon: [N4r]:	Imprinted	at	London by Thomas | East, for Iohn Harrison the
youn- | ger, dwelling in Pater noster Roe, at the | signe of the Anker, and are
there | to bee solde. | 1581.4	A	CRITICAL	BIBLIOGRAPHY	OF
Format and Collation: Quarto: V4, A-N4; 56 leaves.
The first 3 leaves of each gathering are signed, except the title-page; E4 is also signed.
Foliation: Commencing with Alr, leaves numbered Fol. 1. to Vol. 52. in the upper
right-hand comer of each recto.
The F in Fol. is sometimes printed in lower case, and the periods omitted.
Contents: [*** lr], Title; [*«* lv], Poem To His Booke signed Immerito; V 2r-
V 3V, Dedicatory epistle To the most excellent and learned both Orator and
Poet, Maister Gabrieli Haruey, his very speciall and singular good friend E. K
commendeth the good liking of this his labour, and the patronage of the netve
Poet, signed E. K. and followed by a postscript dated From my lodging at
London this 10. of Aprill. 1579-', [V4r]—[V4v], The generall Argument of
the whole Booke. [text set in roman type] ; Alr-[N4r], The twelve eclogues,
one for each month, each preceded by an illustrative woodcut and an Argument
and followed by a Glosse; [N4r], Colophon; [N4V], blank.
The woodcuts occur on the same pages as in the 1579 edition, and are printed from the
same blocks. The argument of each eclogue is set in italic type, the poem itself in black-
letter and the glosse in small roman.
Running-titles: *.*2V-*.*3V, Epistle.', [V4v], The Argument.; Alr-[N4r], dif-
ferent running-title for each eclogue, consisting of the name of the month in
italic type.
On L2r, L3y and [L4r] the running-title is printed December, an error for October. This
misprint has been corrected in most copies; of the copies checked, only the present, the
*C2. and the RPH. copies exhibit this misprint.
Entry in Stationers’ Register: 29. Octobris [1580]
John harrison Assigned ouer from hugh Singleton to haue the sheppardes callender which
was hughe Singletons copie .... vjd
[Arber, II, 380.1
Copy used: The Corser—Huth copy, now in the library of a Boston collector.
Other copies: RPH. [Lord Vernon copy] ; *CH. [Heber—Britwell copy] ; *HN.
[Church copy]; *L. [Grenville copy] ; *0. [Malone copy] ; *WR. [Lefferts
copy] ; *C2 [Capell copy] ; **WS.
It is possible that there are more than these nine copies in existence. There are three
copies recorded in the 19th century which I have not been able to trace but it is not
impossible that the above list includes all three of these copies.
Notes: 1. In all copies that have been checked, the December eclogue is headed JEgloga
Vndecima, an error for JEgloga Duodecima.
2.	This edition was reprinted from a copy of the 1579 edition. The poems themselves
('i. e., the black-letter text) have been reprinted page-for-page, except for the discrepancy
of a single line at the foot of [G4r]. No attempt was made to secure a page-for-page
correspondence in the glosses, but where the run-over from a glosse would tend to disrupt
the page-for-page setting of the following poem, the printer corrected this by setting the
argument preceding this poem in a smaller type.
3.	W. C. Hazlitt, in his Handbook to the Popular, Poetical, and Dramatic Literature
of Great Britain, (London, 1867), p. 572, lists two editions of the Shepheardes Calender
as being published in 1581. This was almost certainly an error on his part. He had ob-
viously not seen the first of the two editions that he lists, but had taken his reference from
the Sykes and Heber catalogues, and had assumed that the date 1581 occurred on the
title-page in that copy, instead of in the colophon only, as in the copy he saw and de-
scribed in detail. Thus he listed two editions where there was in reality only one. As aTHE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER
5
consequence of this error by Hazlitt, we sometimes find the editions of 1586, 1591 and
1597 listed as the fourth, fifth and sixth editions respectively, instead of the third, fourth
and fifth.
4	THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER	[Third edition] 1586
Title: [within a woodcut border with the royal arms at the top (TPB
No. 198)] The | Shepheardes Calender, j Conteining twelue ^Eglogues
propor= | tionable to the twelue | Monethes. | Entitled | To The Noble
And Ver- | tuous Gentleman most worthie of | all titles, both of learn-
ing and | chiualry, Maister Philip | Sidney. | [device of John Wolfe
(McKerrow No. 251)] | Imprinted at London by Iohn Wolfe for |
Iohn Harrison the yonger, dwelling in Pater | noster Roe, at the signe
of the Anker. | 1586.
Colophon: [N4r] :	Imprinted at London by Thomas East, for | Iohn Harrison the
younger, dwelling in Pa= j ter noster Roe, at the signe of the Anker, | and are
there to be sold. | 1586.
Format and Collation: Quarto: [7r]4, A—N4; 56 leaves.
The first 3 leaves of each gathering signed, except the first gathering and 13; in E3 and 12
the figures but not the letters are printed; E4 is signed.
tin some copies D2 is not signed; *HN., *L., *C2. and *0. belong to this group.]
Foliation: Commencing with Alr, leaves numbered 1 to 52 in the upper right-
hand corner of each recto.
Errors in foliation: 12 for 11. [In some copies the verso of folio 7 is misnumbered 8
on the inner margin, and folio 8 not numbered; this is true of the RNY., *L., *HN.
copies.]
Contents: [ttI1], Title; [7rlv], Poem To His Booke signed Immeritd; [7r2r]~
[■7r3r], Dedicatory epistle To the most excellent and learned both Orator and
Poet, Maister Gabriel Haruey, his very speciall and singular good friend E. K
commendeth the good liking of this his good labour, and the patronage of the
newe Poet. signed E. K. and followed by a postscript dated From my lodging at
London this 10. of Aprill. 1579-! [7r3v]—Alr, The generall Argument of the
whole booke. [text set in italic type] ; Alr—[N4r], The twelve eclogues, one
for each month, each preceded by an illustrative woodcut and an Argument
and followed by a Glosse; [N4r], Colophon; [N4V], blank.
The woodcuts occur on the same pages as in the two preceding editions of 1579 and 1581,
and are printed from the same blocks. The argument of each eclogue is set in italic type,
the poem itself in black-letter and the glosse in small roman.
Running-titles: [7t2v]—[7r3r], Epistle.', [7r4r]-[7r4v], The Argument.', Alr—[N4r],
different running-title for each eclogue, consisting of the name of the month.
All running-titles are printed in roman type in this edition.
Copy used: Tudor and Stuart Club copy; [the former Lord Vernon—R. B. Adam
copy].
Other copies: HD. [W. A. White copy]; RNY. [Roxburghe—Sykes—Heber
copy] ; *HN. [Locker-Lampson—Church copy] ; *L. [Grenville copy] ; *0.6	A	CRITICAL	BIBLIOGRAPHY	OF
[Wood copy]; *HH. [Britwell copy]; *M.; *C. [3 copies: Syn. 7. 64. 61.®,
Bb*. 10. 187. and in Sandars Collection; the last two imperfect, each wanting
the first and last leaf.] ; *C2. [Capell copy] ; **E3; **YK.
There may be other copies in addition to the 12 perfect and 2 imperfect copies listed but
I have not been able to find any trace of such copies.
Notes: 1. This edition was reprinted from a copy of the 1581 edition. It was not reset page-
for-page throughout, although for the most part there is a page-for-page correspondence in
the black-letter text. It does, however, seem to have been reset sheet-for-sheet. The verso
of the 4th leaf of each signature has the same catchword in both editions, except on [F4V],
where the first few lines of the Glosse to the June eclogue in the 1581 edition are replaced
by an ornament in this edition and the Glosse begun at the top of Glr. This edition fol-
lows the 1581 by reprinting the incorrect catchword, 'A’, at the foot of [C4V].
2.	John Wolfe is named as the printer in the imprint to this edition and his device
appears on the title-page. In the colophon, however, Thomas East is named as the printer.
The most likely explanation of this discrepancy is that the compositor, setting from a copy
of the 1581 edition, carelessly copied the colophon of that edition, changing only the date.
All copies of this 1586 edition that have been checked agree in having Thomas East’s name
in the colophon, so that it seems probable that the error was never corrected.
3.	In all copies of this edition the February eclogue is headed 'Aegloga Seunda/ a mis-
print for * Aegloga Secunda/
5	THE SHEPHEARDS CALENDER [Fourth edition] 1591
Title: [within a woodcut border with the royal arms at the top (TPB
No. 198)] The | Shepheards Calender. | Conteining twelue Aeglogues
propor= j tionable to the twelue j Monethes. | Entituled, To the noble
and vertuous Gen- | tleman most worthie of all titles, both | of learning
and chiualry, Mai- | ster Philip Sidney. | [ornament of a mask with
rings (similar to McKerrow No. 379, but without the initials) ] | Lon-
don | Printed by Iohn Windet, for Iohn Harrison | the yonger, dwelling
in Pater noster Roe, at the | signe of the Anger. 1591.
Colophon: [N41] :	Imprinted at London by Iohn Windet, for | Iohn Harrison the
younger, dwelling in Pater noster | Roe, at the signe of the Anker, and are
there | to be solde. 1591.
Format and Collation: Quarto: *4, A-N4; 56 leaves.
The first 3 leaves of each gathering are signed, except the title-page, *3, 12 and 13; E4
is signed.
Foliation: Commencing with Alr, leaves numbered 1 to 52 in the upper right-
hand corner of each recto.
Errors in foliation: 12 for 10; 12 for 11; 73 for 37; 45 for 46.
Contents: [*lr], Title; [*lv], Poem To His Booke signed Immerito; *2r— [*3r],
Dedicatory epistle To the most exeellent [j/V] and learned both Orator and
Poet, Maister Gabriel Haruey, his verie speciall and singular good friend E. K
commendeth the good liking of this his good labour, and the patronage of the
newe Poet, signed E. K. and followed by a postscript dated From my lodging at
Loudon [sic] this 10. of Aprill. 1579-', [*3V]-Alr, The generall Argument of
the whole booke. [text set in italic type]; Alr— [N4r], The twelve eclogues,THE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER
1
one for each month, each preceded by an illustrative woodcut and an Argument
and followed by a Glosse ; [N4r], Colophon; [N4V], blank.
The woodcuts occur on the same pages as in the three preceding editions and are printed
from the same blocks. The argument of each eclogue is set in italic type, the poem itself
in black-letter and the glosse in small roman.
Running-titles: *2V— [*3r], The Epistle. ; [*4r]—[*4V], The Argument. ; Alr—
[N4r], different running-title for each eclogue, consisting of the name of the
month.
All running-titles are printed in roman type in this edition.
Copy used: Tudor and Stuart Club copy; [formerly the Sir John Arthur Brooke
copy].
Other copies: RNY. [Utterson—Carmichael—Hoe—Huntington—Hagen copy] ;
RPH. [Heber—Gollancz copy]; FOLG. [Haber copy]; *HN. [E. G.
Duff—Beverly Chew copy] ; *CH. [Purdy copy] ; *WR. [Lefferts copy] ; *N. ;
*HH. ; *C2. [Capell copy] ; *L. [2 copies: 239. k. 35 and C. 39- 1. 5.] ; *0.
[Douce copy] ; **WAC. [Bridgwater—Huntington—Clawson copy] ; **G. ;
**CHAT.; **Q.
In addition to these 17 copies, there are four others previously recorded which I have not
traced; some of these may be identical with ones in the above list, however.
Notes: 1. The title-page border of this edition is the same as that of the 1586 edition, but
a piece, varying from 4—6 mm. in breadth, has been broken away from the top portion,
to the left of the lion supporter.
2.	This edition has been reprinted page-for-page from a copy of the 1586 edition. Each
page has been made to correspond exactly except B3V, where, in the glosse to the February
eclogue, there is a discrepancy of four and one-half words in the endings of the pages in
the two editions. There are slight variations throughout, however, between the spelling,
typography and ornaments in the two editions. This 1591 edition seems to be particularly
full of careless misprints. It copies the 1586 edition in having the misprint 'Aegloga
Seunda ’ at the head of the February eclogue, but most of the other errors are peculiar to
this edition alone. It seems probable that it was printed in great haste to take advantage
of the great popularity of Spenser and the demand for his works following the publication
of the Faerie Queene in 1590.
6	THE SHEPHEARDS CALENDER	[Fifth	edition]	1597
Title: The | Shepheards | Calender: | Conteyning Twelue | Aeglogues,
proportionable to the | twelue Moneths. | Entituled, | To the Noble and
vertuous Gentleman, most wor- | thy of all tytles, both of learning and
chiualrie, | Maister Philip Sidney. | [device of Thomas Creede (Mc-
Kerrow No. 299)] j London | Printed by Thomas Creede, for Iohn
Harrison the | yonger, dwelling in Pater noster Row, at the | signe of
the Anchor. | 1597.
Format and Collation: Quarto: A-O4; 56 leaves.
The first 3 leaves of each gathering are signed, except the title-page, G3 and 03.
Pagination: Commencing with B2r, pages numbered 1 to 101.
Contents: [Alr], Title; [Alv], Poem To His Booke signed Immeritò ; A2r-8	A	CRITICAL	BIBLIOGRAPHY	OF
[A4r], Dedicatory epistle To the most excellent and learned, both Orator and
Poet, master Gabriel Haruey, his verie speciall and singular good friend E. K.
commendeth the good lyking of this his good labour, and the patronage of the
new Poet, signed E. K. and followed by a postscript dated From my lodging at
London the tenth of A prill. 1579•; [A4V]—Blv, The general I Argument of the
whole Booke. [text set in italic type] ; B2r— [04r], The twelve eclogues, one
for each month, each preceded by an illustrative woodcut and an Argument
and followed by a Glosse; [04v], blank.
The woodcuts in this edition occur on B2r, [B4r], Dlr, [D4r], [E4V], [G3r], H2r, I3r,
K3r, [L4r], [M4r] and [N4V]. They are printed from the same blocks as those in the four
preceding editions. The argument of each eclogue is printed in italic type, the poem itself
in black-letter and the glosse in roman type.
Running-titles: A2v-[A4r], The Epistle.;	The Argument.; B2r-[04r],
different running-title for each eclogue, consisting of the name of the month.
All running-titles in this edition are printed in roman type except that to the epistle, which
is in italic.
Copy used: The former Hoe—Harkness copy, now in the Yale University Library.
Other copies: RNY. [W. A. White copy] ; RNY. [McKee—H. V. Jones copy] ;
PML.; FOLG.; MHS.; HD.; WELL.; RPH. [Hoe—Gollancz copy]; PFOR.
[Hoe—Hagen copy] ; *RT.; *HN. [Locker-Lampson—Church copy] ; *L.
[2 copies: C. 12. h. 19- and 1077. 1. 52.]; *HH.; *0. [Malone copy];
**CHAT. Several other copies are probably in existence.
Notes: 1. This edition was printed from a copy of the 1591 edition, but no attempt was made
at page-for-page correspondence. Neither was any effort made to have the woodcuts appear
at or near the top of a page. The woodcuts for May and November are placed at the very
bottom of the pages on which they occur.
2.	In the June eclogue the eight-line stanza, beginning, ' Now dead hee is, and lyeth
wrapt in lead,’ is omitted in this edition. In the 1591 edition it appeared at the foot of
[F4r], (folio 24), and the compositor apparently overlooked it in setting up from that
edition. All the 17th Century editions follow this, the last quarto edition, in omitting this
stanza. It was first restored to its proper place by Hughes in his edition of 1715.
3.	Both of the British Museum copies of this edition have been interleaved with a Latin
translation in manuscript of the Shepheards Calender, corresponding to the one first printed
and ascribed to Theodore Bathurst in 1653.
THE SHEPHEARDS CALENDER (Folio Editions) 1611 and 1617
These editions are usually found as parts of the Folio editions of the col-
lected works. They are therefore described under Section V. of Item 19.
7	THE SHEPHERDS CALENDAR (with Calendarium Pastorale,
Bathurst’s Latin translation)	1653
Titles: There are two title-pages facing each other, the one in English on
the left-hand, verso, page, and the one in Latin on the following recto.
Both titles are printed in red and black. The words printed in red are
underlined in the transcripts.THE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER	9
♦English Title : [within a border of type ornaments] The | Shepherds | Calen-
dar, | Containing | Twelve -¿Eglogues, | Proportionable to the | Twelve
Months. | By | Edmund Spencer | Prince of English Poets. | [double rule] j
London, | Printed for M. M. T. C. and Gabrieli Bedell, | and are to be sold
at their Shop at the | Middle-Temple-gate in Fleetstreet, | M. DC. LIII:
♦Latin Title: [within a border of type ornaments] Calendarium | Pastorale, |
Sive | JEglogze. Duodecim, j Totidem j Anni Mensibus accommodate. |
Anglice olim Scriptae | Ab | Edmundo Spensero | Anglorum Poetarum Prin-
cipe: j Nunc autem | Eleganti Latino carmine donatae | A | Theodoro
Bathurst, | Aulse Pembrokianas apud Cantabri- | gienses aliquando Socio. |
[rule] | Londini, j Impensis M. M. T. C. & G. Bedell, ad Por- | tam Medii-
Templi in vico vulgo vocato j Fleetstreet Anno Dom. 1653.
Format and Collation: Octavo: A-K8, [tt]1, [2tt]2; 83 leaves.
The first 2 leaves of each gathering are signed, except the title-pages and B2; A3, F3, H3
and 13 are signed, F3 being misprinted E3.
Pagination: Commencing with [A5r], pages numbered 1 to 147, with numbers
85 to 88 repeated, so that page 147 should be page 151.
Errors in pagination: In addition to the errors caused by the duplication noted above,
89 is printed in error for 68; 513 for 135 [1393. Additional errors are to be found in
other copies.
Contents: [Alr], blank; [Alv], English title-page; [A2r] Latin title-page; [A2V],
blank; A3r—[A4V], Dedication in Latin to Francis Lane, signed ‘ Guil. Dil-
lingham.’ and dated, ’ Coll Emman. Cantabrigiae Calendis Julii, MDCLIII.’ ;
[A5r], List of the subjects of the twelve eclogues [in Latin]; [A5V], the
English text of the poem To his Book, with the Latin text facing it on the fol-
lowing page, [A6r]; [A6V]—[K8r], the eclogues of the Shepherds Calendar,
Spenser’s English text on the left-hand, verso, pages, with Bathurst’s Latin
translation facing it on the right-hand, recto, pages; the Arguments and the
Glosses are not printed; [K8V], blank; [tt], a single, unsigned, leaf contain-
ing a notice to the reader of the stanza omitted from the June eclogue and the
text of that stanza reprinted from one of the early quartos, followed, at the
foot of the page, by a list of Errata', the verso is blank; [27rlr]-[27r2v], A
Glossarie; Or, An Alphabetical Index of unusual words explained, printed on
a pair of unsigned leaves.
Running-titles: [A6V]—[K7r], a different running-title for each eclogue, consist-
ing of the name of the month, in English on the verso pages and in Latin on
the recto pages.
Entry in Stationers’ Register: None. The publishers of this edition were Mercy
Meighen, Thomas Collins and Gabrieli Bedell, who were in partnership in 1653.
[H. R. Plomer, A Dictionary of Booksellers and Printers . . . from 1641 to
1667, (London, 1907), pp. 18-19-] The copyright to Spenser’s Shepheardes
Calender belonged to John Harrison IV, the son of John Harrison II, who had
published the 1581 and subsequent editions of that work, except the 1611
edition included in the Folio of that date. John Harrison IV appears to have
died in 1653 or shortly before that year. Martha Harrison, his widow, trans-10	A	CRITICAL	BIBLIOGRAPHY	OF
ferred the rights to the Shepheardes Calender to William Lee on the 28th of
April, 1660. Whether the publishers of this 1653 edition had any agreement
with the Harrisons concerning the reprinting of this work of Spenser's is not
known.
Copy used: Tudor and Stuart Club copy.
Other copies: RNY.; PFOR.; BO.; HD.; Y.; RPH.; *T.; *0.; *L.; **BA.;
**TOR.; and many others.
Notes: 1. Different copies vary greatly as to the position of the single unsigned leaf con-
taining the notice of the stanza omitted from the June eclogue and the list of Errata. The
PFOR., RPH., and *T. copies agree with the Tudor and Stuart Club copy in placing it
immediately after [K8]. In the RNY. copy it is inserted between [A5] and [A6]. In the
BO., HD., and *L. copies it is found immediately after [A2] and before A3. The *0.
copy has both this leaf and the 2 unsigned leaves containing the Glossarie inserted between
[A2] and A3. This leaf is missing from the Y. copy.
2.	Many copies lack one of the two title-pages. *0. lacks the English title-page; Y. and
*T. lack the Latin title, and have the English title-page cut out and bound as a recto.
3.	The text of Spenser's poem in this edition was undoubtedly printed from one of the
folio editions, on the evidence of the printed notice of the omitted stanza. The Latin
translation cannot have been made from any edition earlier than the 1597 Quarto, for the
stanza of the June eclogue omitted from that and the following editions is not translated.
There are a number of manuscript copies of this Latin translation in existence, and these
seem usually to be in several different handwritings. Both British Museum copies of the
1597 Shepheards Calender have been interleaved with such a manuscript translation. The
Britwell—Pforzheimer manuscript copy of this Latin version of the Shepheardes Calender
is also written in a number of different early 17th Century hands. The exact origin of the
Latin translation which Dillingham edited and published in 1653, naming Theodore
Bathurst as the author, has never been adequately studied. Little seems to be known of
Bathurst himself. The fact that so many of the manuscripts are found written in several
hands would suggest the possibility that this Latin version was the product of a sort of
academic exercise at Cambridge in which several persons took a part.
8	SPENSER—HARVEY LETTERS	1580
Title: [within a rule, within a border of type ornaments, within a rule]
^ Three Proper, | and wittie, familiar Letters: | lately passed betwene
two V- | niuersitie men: touching the Earth- | quake in Aprill last, and
our English | refourmed Versifying. | With the Preface of a wellwiller |
to them both. | [device of Henry Bynneman (McKerrow No. 97)]
Imprinted at Lon-1 don, by H. Bynneman, dwelling | in Thames streate,
neere vnto | Baynardes Castell. | Anno Domini. 1580. | Cum gratia &
priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis.
* On [G2r] is the following separate title-page, within the same border and
having the same device and imprint as the above:	Two Other, | very com-
mendable Let- | ters, of the same mens wri- | ting: both touching the fore-
said | Artifkiall Versifying, and cer- | tain other Particulars« | More lately
deliuered vnto the | Printer.
Colophon: None, except for the device of Henry Bynneman (McKerrow No.
119) on [I3V].fTHREE PROPER,
and wittie, familiar Letters:
lately paffedbetwene two
niuerfitie men: touching the Earth-
quake in Aprill laft, and our Engliih
refourmcd Verfifying.
With the Preface of a xveUwiUer
to them both.
IMPRINTED AT LON
don, by H.Bynneman, dwelling
in Thames ftreate, neere vnto
Baynardcs Caftell.
Jlnno Domini. 1580.
Cum gratia & priuilegio J(egue MaieBatis.THE FAERIE
QVEENE.
Difpofed into twelue books,
Fafbiomng
X 11. Morali vertues.
LONDON
Printed for William Ponionbic.
15?°*THE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER
11
Format and Collation: Quarto: A-H4, I3; 35 leaves.
The leaf 14 is missing from all known copies; it was probably a blank leaf, but we can-
not be certain of this. The first 3 leaves of each gathering are signed, except the title-
pages and 13.
P'agination: Commencing on A2V with the number 4, pages numbered 4 to 69 in
the center of the head margin. Pages 5, 50, 51 and 52 are not numbered.
Errors in pagination: 39 for 38; 38 for 39; 50 for 42; 51 for 43; 54 for 46;
55 for 47.
Contents: [Alr], Title; [Alv], blank; A2r-A2v, Preface ^To the Curteous
Buyer, by a VV elwiller of the two Authors dated This XIX. of lune. 1580.;
A3r-Glr, the three letters, the first by Spenser, dated Westminster. Quarto
Nonas Aprilis 1580. and signed lmmerito\ the second and third by Harvey;
Glv, blank; [G2r], Title-page to the Two Other . . . Letters-, [G2V], blank;
G3r—I2r, the two other letters, the first dated Leycester House. This. 5. of Octo-
ber. 2579. [sic~\ and signed Immerito, the second signed G. H.; I2v-[l3r],
Certain Latin verses and translations thereof, the second translation being by
Harvey; [I3V], Device of Henry Bynneman (McKerrow No. 119).
Running-titles: None.
Entry in Stationers’ Register: 30 Iunij [1580]
H. bynneman. Receyued of him for three proper and wittie lettres passed betwene twoo
vniuersitie men touchinge the earthequake . . vjd
[Arber, II, 373.]
Copy used: The former Britwell copy, now in the library of Mr. C. H.
Pforzheimer.
Other copies: RNY. [Bright—Lefferts—W. A. White copy: has first title-page
in facsimile] ; RNY. [W. A. White duplicate: unbound and imperfect, lacking
Al, 12 and 13] ; *HN. [Huth copy: imperfect, lacking F2 and F3] ; *L.; *0.
These six copies are the only ones known, and of these only three are perfect.
9	THE FAERIE QUEENE	[First	edition]	1590
Title: The Faerie | Queene. | Disposed into twelue books, | Fashioning
XII. Morall vertues. | [device of John Wolfe (McKerrow No. 242)]
London | Printed for William Ponsonbie. | 1590.
Format and Collation: Quarto, bound in eights: A-Z8, Aa-Pp8, Qq4; 308 leaves.
Copies differ with respect to the collation of the last few leaves, owing to
the varying states of the sonnets at the end. (See Note 2, below.) The present
copy has both the first and the second issues of the complimentary sonnets, the
second appearing on the 4 leaves signed Qq. Copies containing the first
issue only end with [Pp8]. Other copies have [Pp6] and [Pp7] cancelled
and the 4 leaves signed Qq inserted in their place, in accordance with what was
undoubtedly the printer’s original intention. Copies which do not exhibit one
of these three states of the complimentary sonnets should be considered
defective.
First 4 leaves of each gathering are signed except the title-page and Qq4; A5 is signed.
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Pagination: Commencing with A2V, pages numbered 2 to 606, followed by 4
unpaged leaves; pages 184, 388 and 590 not numbered.
Errors in pagination: 81 for 79; 84 for 82; 85 for 83; 88 for 86; 89 for 87; 92
for 90; 93 for 91; 96 for 94; 319 for 309; 217 for 317; 40£ for 403; 493 for 439;
600 for 510; 592 for 562; 589 for 586.
Some of the above errors have been corrected in certain copies. Page 309 is correctly
numbered in RNY. (Gollancz copy, with sonnet in Spenser’s hand), N.Y., WILM., *RT.,
*T. (Stark copy), *C. (Sel. 5. 101.), *C2. (Capell. S. 19.), and *HH. Page 403 is
correctly printed in FOLG., *RPH. (Gollancz 1590-96 copy in vellum binding), and *RT.
Additional errors in pagination are to be found in some copies. 488 is printed in error
for 486 and 489 for 487 in TS. (copy 2), N.Y., GW, BC., HD., YEC., and *HN. (both
copies). 119 is printed in error for 109 in YEC., *WR., and *0. (F. 2.62. Line.). 184
is printed for 185 in YEC. and *WR., and 512 for 521 in *RPH. (Gollancz 1590-96
copy in vellum binding). Page 69 is not numbered in *N., *L. (C. 12. h. 17.), *M.,
*G., *HERB., *C. (both copies), *C2. (both copies) and *HH. [in the wrongly per-
fected sheet]. Copies may exist which exhibit still other errors in pagination.
Contents: [Alr], Title; [Alv], Dedication to Queen Elizabeth, signed Ed. Spen-
ser.; A2r-[M5r], the text of Book I; [M5V], Full-page woodcut of St. George
and the Dragon; [M6r]-Bb3r, the text of Book II; Bb3v, blank; Bb4r-[Oo8r],
the text of Book III; [Oo8v], blank; Pplr-Pp3r, A Letter of the Authors
expounding his whole intention in the course of this worke ... To the Right
noble, and Valorous, Sir Walter Raleigh knight, Lo. Wardein of the Stanneryes,
and her Maiesties liefetenaunt of the County of Cornewayll., dated 23. lanuary.
1589. and signed Ed. Spenser.-, Pp3v, Two complimentary sonnets to the author,
|[ A Vision vpon this conceipt of the Faery Queene. and Another of the same.,
the second signed W. R.; Pp4r-Pp4v, Poem of six stanzas To the learned
Shepeheard., signed Hobynoll.\ Pp4v, complimentary verses to the author
signed R. S. and H. B.; [Pp5r], Poem of four stanzas, signed W. L.; [Pp5v],
Poem of four stanzas, signed Ignoto.; [Pp6r], Complimentary sonnets by Spen-
ser to Sir Christopher Hatton and the Earl of Essex; [Pp6v], Sonnets to the
Earl of Oxenford and the Earl of Northumberland; [Pp7r] Sonnets to the Earl
of Ormond and Ossory and Lord Charles Howard; [Pp7v], Sonnets to Lord
Grey of Wilton and Sir Walter Raleigh; [Pp8r], Sonnets to Lady Carew and
To all the gratious and beautifull Ladies in the Court, each signed E. S. and
the second followed by Finis, at the foot of the page; [Pp8v], Faults escaped
in the Print.’, Qqlr, Sonnets to Sir Christopher Hatton and *Lord Burleigh,
the second signed E. S.; Qqlv, Sonnets to the Earl of Oxenford and the Earl
of Northumberland; Qq2r, Sonnets to the *Earl of Cumberland and the Earl
of Essex, the first signed E. S.; Qq2v, Sonnets to the Earl of Ormond and
Ossory and Lord Charles Howard; Qq3r, Sonnets to *Lord Hunsdon and Lord
Grey of Wilton, the first signed E. S.; Qq3v, Sonnets to *Lord Buckhurst and
*Sir Francis Walsingham, the second signed E. S.; [Qq4r], Sonnets to *Sir
John Norris and Sir Walter Raleigh, each signed E. S.; [Qq4v] Sonnet to *the
Countesse of Penbroke, signed E. S. [The sonnets which are starred are those
which were added in the second series.]
Running-titles: Printed in italic type, with page numbers near the outer margins
and canto numbers (e.g., Cant. 1., etc.) near the inner margins. A2V—[M5r],
The first Booke of | the Faery Queene.;	[M6V]—Bb3r, The second BookeTHE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER
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of | the Faery Queene.; Bb4v-[Oo8r], The third Booke of j the Faery
Queene. [Faery is sometimes spelled Faerie, usually on the 2nd and 8th
recto of each signature.]
There are a number of consistent variations in the typography of the running-titles, the
most obvious being that between the swash and the normal C in Cant. The evidence which
these variations furnish regarding the printing of the Faerie Queene is discussed in Note 3
below.
Misprints in running-titles: ' Freay ' for ' Faery * on 04r; * Cant. XI/ for * Cant. IX/
on I3V; * Cant. VIII/ for * Cant. VII/ on Tlr to T2r; ' Cant. XI/ for * Cant. IX/ on V4v;
' Cant. XI/ for * Cant. X/ on [Ll8v]. All of these errors are present in every copy that
has been checked. It is possible that copies exist which have additional misprints in the
running-titles.
Entry in Stationers’ Register: Dcd [PDicto] Primo Die Decembris. [1589]
Master Pon- Entered for his Copye, a booke intytuled the fayrye Queene dysposed into
sonbye,	xij. bookes. &c. Aucthorysed vnder th[e hlandes of the Archbishop of
Canterbery. and bothe the wardens . . . . vjd
[Arber, II, 536.]
Copy used: Tudor and Stuart Club copy; [formerly the James Pickering Orde—
Charles Hurt—Joseph Edwards—Beverly Chew copy].
Other copies: TS. (copy 2) ; RNY. [Gollancz copy, containing on Oo8v the
sonnet in Spenser’s own autograph entitled A sa mistresse which was printed
with minor changes as the first sonnet in the Amoretti in 1595]; N.Y.;
FOLG.; GW.; PML.; WILM. [Louis I. Haber copy]; BC.; MHS.; HD.
[G. C. Thomas—Widener copy]; WELL.; YEC; PFOR.; *RPH. [Gol-
lancz 1590-96 copy in vellum binding] ; *HN. (2 copies, 56741 and 56742,
formerly Church 655a and 655) ; *RT. [G. W. Steeves copy]; *N.; *CH.;
*WR.; *T. (Stark Collection) ; *HERB.; *HH.; *L. [2 perfect copies,
C. 12. h. 17. and G. 11535; also 1 imperfect copy, interleaved with MS.
notes by Upton, C 28. b. 14.] ; *0. [2 copies, Malone 615 and F. 2. 62.
Line., the latter wanting one leaf, N4.] *C. (2 copies, Sel. 5. 101. and in
Sanders Collection) ; *0*. (2 copies, Capell. S. 19. and VI. 2. 62.) ; *M.;
*EWS.; *G.; *GA.; * AEN.; **C14.; **WAC.; **WS.; **HAIGH.
[Freeling—Gardner copy]; **CHAT.; **ALM.; **FUR.; **WH.; **C3.;
**DO.; **YK.
In addition to the copies listed above, there are a great many other copies in existence.
There are probably at least 75 to 100 copies existing today that are in sound condition
except for comparatively minor defects.
Notes: 1. It has often been customary in the past to distinguish two or more " issues ” of
the 1590 Faerie Queene, basing the distinction on some easily detected correction to be
found in some copies but not in others. This practice is altogether erroneous, for it desig-
nates as separate issues what in reality are merely copies which exhibit the earlier and
the later states of some one particular sheet, or rather, one particular forme, arbitrarily
selected as the basis for this distinction. As was usual in the case of 16th Century books,
most formes of the Faerie Queene underwent correction at some time during the course of
printing. The sheets which had been run off on the press before revision took place were
not discarded, however, but were retained along with the corrected sheets. When the
printing was completed and the volume was made up, corrected and uncorrected sheets
were bound together indiscriminately. Thus existing copies exhibit an entirely haphazard
combination of revised and unrevised readings, and it is quite possible that there are no
two copies whose readings agree throughout.14	A	CRITICAL	BIBLIOGRAPHY	OP
Dr. Ray Heffner and Dr. Ernest A. Strathmann, in connection with their work on the
text of the new Variorum Edition of the Works of Edmund Spenser, have had a number
of different copies of the 1590 Faerie Queene checked for certain variant readings. A table
showing the results of this check for the text of Book I of the Faerie Queene is to be
found on pp. 518-519 of Volume I of this edition, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press,
1932). The results for Books II and III will appear in the textual appendix to Volume III
of this edition, which will be issued early in 1934. These tables of variant readings show
beyond any possible doubt that there can be no justification for the former practice of dis-
tinguishing two " issues ” of this book on the basis of a single, arbitrarily selected cor-
rection. The evidence of the tables of variant readings is summarized below insofar as
it affects the three points upon which a distinction between " issues ” has been most com-
monly based in the past. [The question of the varying states of the sonnets at the end
of the volume, which presents an entirely different problem, will be considered separately
in Note 2 below],
(a)	By far the most common basis of the erroneous distinctions between " issues” has
been the presence or absence of certain Welsh words in the 4th and 5th lines on p. 332.
Copies having the earlier state of this page, [X7y], which belongs to the inner forme of
the outer sheet of the X quire, have blank spaces left in these two lines, where the Welsh
words of line 4 and all except the first word of line 5 belong. Such copies have commonly
been called " first issues ” but all have the later, revised, state of many of the other sheets
in the volume. In the later state of this forme the Welsh words were supplied and line 5
completed. Copies containing this state have been termed " second issues,” although all
such copies exhibit the earlier, unrevised, state of some sheets in the volume, as the textual
checks clearly show. Furthermore, when the Welsh words were first supplied, the first
Welsh word in each line was incorrectly printed ' Seuith/ This was apparently corrected
later to * Scuith,’ so that there are three states of this forme. The correction of ' Seuith ’
to ' Scuith ’ is listed in Faults escaped in all copies. Of the 41 copies checked for this
point, only 8 have the Welsh words supplied on p. 332. [Two other copies, the Britwell-
R. B. Adam copy and the Willis Vickery copy, have recently been noted in sale catalogues
as having blank spaces on p. 332, but with an example of folio X7 with the Welsh words
supplied bound in]. Copies containing the Welsh words are thus much rarer than the
so-called " first issues.” Of the 8 copies noted, *L. (C. 12. h. 17.) alone reads * Scuith/
[W. L. Renwick, however, expresses the opinion (MLR 28. 510) that this copy originally
read * Seuith * in both lines, but that the bar of the * e ' has in each case been scraped
away by a former owner.] The seven others, *HN. (56741), MHS., *HERB., *RT, *C2.
(VI. 2. 62.), **DO. and the present Tudor and Stuart Club copy all read * Seuith/ All
copies of the second edition issued in 1596 have the Welsh words correctly printed at
this point.
(b)	In some copies the date in the imprint on the title-page is set close (i.e., 1590.),
with the figure * 1 ’ below the letters * il ’ in ' William/ In this setting the date is not
centrally spaced with reference to the line above, but is placed considerably to the right
of the center. In the majority of copies, however, the date is widely spaced (i. e., 1590.).
The zero and the period are in the same position in both settings, but in the case of the
widely spaced date additional spaces have been inserted between the figures, so that the
figure * 1 * is below the right edge of the letter f r ’ in for ' and the date as a whole is
centrally placed with respect to the line above. It thus seems probable that the closely set
date represents the earlier and the widely spaced date the later state. Owing to the corre-
spondence between the closely set date and the presence of the Welsh words in the
Huntington copy (56741), and between the widely spaced date and the blank spaces on
p. 332 in most other copies, there has been a tendency to connect these two points in
making distinctions between " issues.” The absence of any relation between the state of
the date on the title-page and of page 332 can be easily proved. Of the copies in which
the Welsh words are printed, three, the present Tudor and Stuart Club copy, *HN.
(56741) and MHS. have the date set close, and five, *HERB., *RT., *C2. (VI. 2. 62),
**DO., and *L. (C. 12. h. 17), have the date spaced. Moreover, there are several copies
with blank spaces on p. 332 that have the closely set date on the title-page, including *T.
(Stark Collection), PML. and YEC. [In all these copies, however, the inner margin ofTHE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER
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the title-leaf shows that it has been mended, and it cannot be definitely determined whether
it was the original leaf, conjugate with A8, or was taken from a different copy].
(c)	Of the copies of the 1590 Faerie Queene existing today, the Harmsworth copy seems
to be unique in having the verso of the title-page blank, without the dedication to Queen
Elizabeth. A few other copies probably existed at one time having this peculiarity, for
this feature of certain copies is noted in the Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica, (London, 1815),
p. 303- Note also the somewhat defective copy sold at Sotheby’s on February 17, 1914,
Lot 797, which was described as having the dedication to Queen Elizabeth cut out and
pasted on the verso of the title-page, which had originally been blank. A check of the
textual readings of the Harmsworth copy reveals that it possesses the later, corrected,
state of most of the sheets making up the volume. Furthermore, the title-page in this copy,
which belongs to the outer forme of the same sheet, has the date widely spaced, which in
all probability represents the later state of that forme. If this is true, what we have in the
Harmsworth copy is the earlier state of the inner forme of the outer sheet of the A quire,
combined with the later state of the outer forme of the same sheet. This combination is
what might be expected if the sheets were perfected in reverse order, causing the first
sheets printed of the inner forme to be the last to be perfected.
Another peculiarity of the Harmsworth copy is that it contains a faulty example of the
inner E sheet, consisting of sigs. E3, E4, [E5] and [E6], in which the pages follow one
another in an altogether incorrect order. The explanation of this peculiarity is obvious
when the possible causes of this particular sequence of pages is considered. This sheet
was through some error wrongly turned end-for-end when it was perfected. Instead of
being discarded as a waste sheet, it was included by mistake when the sheets composing
this copy were assembled and bound. [This peculiarity of the Harmsworth copy has been
described in detail in C. J. Sawyer and F. J. Harvey Darton’s English Books, 1473-1900,
(London, 1927), I, 77-79.].
2.	The series of complimentary sonnets addressed by Spenser to noble patrons, which
appears at the end of the 1590 Faerie Queene, is found in different states in different
copies. There were two issues of these sonnets printed, the first consisting of ten sonnets,
and the second of fifteen, including the first eight of the original series, which were re-
printed. It is only with reference to these sonnets that we have any sound basis for
distinguishing two issues of the first edition of the Faerie Queene.
It seems to us that the explanation of the varying states of these sonnets offered by Sir
Israel Gollancz [Proceedings of the British Academy, 1907—1908, pp. 104-105.] is un-
doubtedly the correct one. It is evident that the original intention was that the volume
should end with the leaf [Pp8]. A series of ten sonnets by Spenser presenting the book
to various noble patrons, were printed on [Pp6r] to [Pp8r] (pages 601-605), followed
by the word ' Finis ’ at the foot of [Pp8r] and by the list of Faults escaped on [Pp8T].
The first few copies to be issued from the press almost certainly contained only this first
series of ten sonnets. Spenser’s friends, however, apparently lost no time in convincing
him that the very obvious omission of Lord Burghley from the list of noblemen to whom
complimentary sonnets were addressed was a very unwise action and would be likely to
prove disastrous to his interests at Court. Spenser seems to have promptly taken their
advice, and to have composed a sonnet to the Lord Treasurer and at the same time to have
added six other dedicatory sonnets to his list. These seven new sonnets, together with the
first eight in the old series, were printed on a single quarto sheet to which the com-
positor assigned the signature Qq, but did not page. The change in plan must have taken
place almost immediately after the printing of the book had been completed; certainly
before the type for the final quire, Pp, had been distributed, for the eight sonnets of the
first series are reprinted in the second series from the same setting of type. Careful
examination clearly shows that the type for each of these eight sonnets was merely lifted
as a unit from the old formes and transferred to the new. At the same time, apparently,
opportunity was taken to correct the word ' lieftenaunt ’ in the heading to the sonnet to
Raleigh, which had been misspelled * liefenaunt ’ in the first series, and the signature
E. S. was added at the end of this sonnet.
It seems clear that the intention was to cancel the two leaves, [Pp6] and [Pp7], upon16	A	CRITICAL	BIBLIOGRAPHY	OF
which the eight reprinted sonnets appeared, and to insert the four unpaged leaves con-
taining the second series in their place. There would certainly have been no reason to omit
the sonnets to Lady Carew and To all the gratious and beautifull ladies in the Court from
the new series. The entire second series would therefore consist of seventeen sonnets, all
except the last two being on this cancel sheet of four leaves. Because this new sheet had
the signature Qq, however, it was bound in many copies immediately following [Pp8],
and the leaves [Pp6] and [Pp7] were not cancelled. Thus we find three different states
of these sonnets: (1) the first issue, with ten sonnets only, the volume ending with [Pp8];
(2) the second issue in the form originally intended by the printer, with [Pp6] and [Pp7]
cancelled and the four leaves signed Qq inserted in their place; (3) both issues complete,
the four leaves signed Qq being bound after [Pp8l. In some copies with the second issue
of the sonnets, [Pp8] seems to have been cancelled also through some error, or to have
been torn out and lost. Such a copy was probably used for setting up the 1611 Folio
printing of these sonnets, for only the fifteen in the second series were reprinted in that
edition. Of the 40 copies checked for this point, the following 8 have the first issue only:
RNY. [Gollancz copy with sonnet in Spenser’s autograph]; N.Y.; WILM.; *L. (G.
11535); *HERB.; *G.; *EWS.; **C14. The following 8 copies have the second issue
of the sonnets in its originally intended form: MHS.; *0. (Malone 615); *L. (C. 12.
h. 17.); *M.; *RPH. [Gollancz copy in vellum binding]; *HH.; *C. (Sel. 5. 101.)
and *C2. (VI. 2. 62.). The 20 following copies have both issues of the sonnets: TS.
(both copies); PFOR.; FOLG.; GW.; PML.; BC.; HD.; WELL.; *CH.; *WR.; *T.
(Stark Collection); *HN. (both copies) ; *0. (F. 2. 62. Line.); *C2. (Capell. S. 19.) ;
*GA.; *AEN.; **WAC.; **WS. The *N. copy has the second issue in its originally
intended form, but wants [Pp8]. YEC. has both issues complete, but the four leaves con-
taining the second series have been bound between the leaves [Pp7] and [Pp8]. *C.
(Sandars Collection) and *RT. want the last two quires.
It should of course be realized that in the case of any copy now existing which has only
the first issue of the sonnets, there is the possibility that it once had both issues complete
and that the second series, coming at the end of the volume, has been lost. Likewise, where
both issues are present and complete, the second may have been inserted in that particular
copy at a later date.
3.	The typographical variations in the head-lines in this volume follow a regular order,
and furnish certain evidence concerning the printing of the 1590 Faerie Queene. In order
to save labor, the compositors did not set a new head-line each time they composed a page,
but allowed the head-lines to remain set up in the chases throughout the printing of the
entire volume, making only the minimum of changes required from time to time in the
page and canto numbers, and less frequently, in the number of the book. Evidence of this
labor-saving practice is to be observed in many books of the period. The chief point of
interest in connection with this edition of the Faerie Queene is that the head-lines show
that four chases were in use throughout the printing of the book. If we assign the symbols
a and ft to the outer and the inner quarto sheets respectively of each gathering, and use
the superscripts / and o for the inner and outer formes of each sheet, we find that the first
chase to be set up, Chase (1), was probably that used to print fit of the A gathering. This
chase was used to perfect the same sheet; that is, for Chase (2) was used for both
a* and <*° of the A gathering. Two new chases, with separate sets of head-lines, were put
into use for the printing of the B gathering, Chase (3) for ^ and and Chase (4) for
at and Thereafter the four chases were used, one for each forme, in the printing of
each gathering until T. Chase (4) was used for £*, (3) for at, (l) for /3°, and (2) for
cl°. The following are some of the distinctive points of the head-lines of each chase [refer-
ences are to the pages on which they regularly appear from sigs. C to S inclusive]:
Chase (1): the spelling Faery in both cases; no period after Queene on 5r; small C
in Cant. on all four pages.
Chase (2): the spelling Faery in both cases; broken tail to the Q in Queene on lr;
large swash C in Cant, on 2V and 7r, small C on lr and 8T.
Chase (3): the spelling Faerie in both cases; defective u in Queene on 8r; defective
T in The on 7V; large swash C in Cant. on 7T, small C on other three pages.THE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER
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Chase (4): the spelling Faery in both cases; colon after Queene on 4r; pronounced
upward curl of the tail of the Q and defective final e in Queene on 6r; large swash C in
Cant. on 3V, small C on other three pages; defective k in Booke on 5V.
In the T gathering Chase (3) was used twice, for o,i and and (2) was not used.
Commencing with the V gathering a period was inserted after Queene on 5r of Chase (1).
The head-lines of two pages in Chase (4) had to be removed in the printing of the Bb
gathering, because Bb3v and Bb4r had no head-lines. As a result, the head-lines of Chase
(4) are inconsistent thereafter, because seme new head-lines were set up. The head-lines
for some pages remained unchanged, however. Chase (4) was not used in the Cc gather-
ing, Chase (1) being used for both jSo and J3t. From the Dd gathering to the end of the
volume (1) and (4) change places, (1) being used to print P* and (4) [now altered]
being used to print £0.
The question naturally arises as to what inferences we are justified in making from this
fact of the consistent use of four chases in the printing of the 1590 Faerie Queene. I can
do no more here than to suggest certain interesting possibilities; definite conclusions must
await a more extensive study than I am able to devote to the problem at this time. We
know, however, that in 1586 John Wolfe owned four presses. [Arber, V, lii.L The
consistent use of four chases suggests the possibility that as many as four presses might
have been used, and certainly the probability that at least two presses were used. As the
Faerie Queene was written in stanzas of an equal number of lines, it would have been very
easy to divide up the manuscript so that several compositors could work simultaneously.
Another bit of evidence is furnished by the pagination errors in the F gathering. There
all the pages in the outer formes of both sheets have been numbered 2 too great, obviously
because the compositor counted from Al instead of A2. This would indicate that one
compositor or pair of compositors set both the outer formes, and a different pair set both
the inner formes. Instances can of course be cited where more than one chase appears to
have been used merely to save labor by enabling the compositor to impose each page of type
in the forme as soon as it was set up. In the case of a large quarto volume, however, it
seems to me most improbable that if this method were used a new forme would not at
times have been imposed so that the pages were in an inverted order with respect to the
headlines always remaining in the chase. Such an inversion of the chase is frequently
observed in the Complaints volume, but does not occur a single time in the 1590 Faerie
Queene. Therefore, I believe that in the Faerie Queene the type for all four pages of the
new forme was always imposed in the chase at the time that the old type was removed for
distribution. Thus the compositor would have the one signed page in each forme to guide
him so that he would impose the pages in the same order with respect to the old headlines.
With the type set as I have suggested, it is probable that two presses would consistently
be used, one printing the inner formes of both sheets, and the other perfecting. Further-
more, if greater speed were desired, it would have been possible to organise the work so
that as many as four presses could be used. This would certainly have been unusual, but
I	have found no evidence that would rule it out as a possibility. In any case, it seems
highly probable that in 1590 the second largest printing-house in London was devoting at
least half its resources to the rapid printing of Spenser's Faerie Queene.
4.	An examination of the paper on which the copies of the 1590 Faerie Queene are
printed reveals that an entirely haphazard mixture of at least seven different job-lots of
paper was used. Of these seven, four bear different varieties of a watermark consisting of a
one-handled jug or ft pot ”, surmounted by a crown and fleuron, similar to Heawood No.
169. They are to be distinguished by slight variations in the watermark and by the spacing
of the chain-lines. A fifth lot has a watermark consisting of a large, rather crudely shaped
"pot”, similar to Heawood No. 175. This paper seems to be slightly thicker than the
others, and the presence of a somewhat larger proportion of this paper in certain copies is
probably responsible for their designation by booksellers as " thick-paper copies.” The
sixth lot of paper used for this volume has the watermark of a hand with the fingers open
and the seventh is without a watermark, unless it be a very small one, entirely hidden by
the sewing.
A complete collation of the watermarks in the two Tudor and Stuart Club copies and
the Morgan copy, supplemented by partial checks of other copies, clearly shows that corre-18	A	CRITICAL	BIBLIOGRAPHY	OF
sponding sheets in the volume are often found printed on different paper in different
copies. In only about one-third of the cases is the corresponding sheet on the same stock
of paper in all three copies, while in one-fourth of the cases, each of the three copies ex-
hibits a different paper. There is no relation between the lots of paper used and any
corrections that may have been made in a particular sheet. Consequently, the watermark
of the paper can be of no value as evidence in settling the question of priority between
two readings found in different copies.
5.	Although the first edition of the Faerie Queene is by no means as rare as the first
editions of some of Spenser’s minor poems, it has always received special attention from
both scholars and collectors because it is the poet’s greatest work. Existing copies vary
greatly as to size and condition. Also, some apparently perfect copies have been produced
through the enterprise of book-dealers, who have taken two imperfect copies to pieces and
combined them to make a new copy in which all leaves are present and in good condition.
When bound, a copy of this sort can rarely be detected except through a collation of the
watermarks.
Most existing copies of the 1590 Faerie Queene have been greatly cut in binding. Few
copies measure as much as 7V2X5% inches. Copies equalling or exceeding those dimen-
sions should be regarded as unusually large copies. Messrs. P. J. & A. E. Dobell, in their
latest catalogue, No. 130 for 1933, list a copy measuring 7% x 5V8 inches. A still larger
copy, measuring 206 x 150 mm. (approximately Sl/s x 57/s inches) was listed in catalogue
No. 369 for April, 1922, by Messrs. Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. I have not examined or seen
records of any copies larger than this one. The most important copy, without a doubt, is
the presentation copy containing the sonnet in Spenser’s autograph. It belonged to the
late Sir Israel Gollancz and was described by him in the Proceedings of the British
Academy, 1907-1908, pp. 99™105. It is now in the possession of the Rosenbach Company
in New York,
10	THE FAERIE QUEENE, First Part [Second edition of Books I
Title: The Faerie | Queene. | Disposed into twelue bookes, | Fashioning
XII. Morall vertues. | [device of Richard Field (McKerrow No. 222)]
London | Printed for William Ponsonbie. | 1596.
Format and Collation: Quarto, bound in eights: A-Z8, Aa-Oo8; 296 leaves.
First 4 leaves of each gathering signed, except the title-page.
Pagination: Commencing with A2V, pages numbered 2 to 590. Pages 184 and
388 are not numbered.
Errors in pagination: 18 for 10; 81 to 96 for 79 to 94; 120 for 102; 331 for 311;
478 for 468; 597 for 497; 600 for 510.
Additional errors are found in some copies. 589 is printed for 586 in the TS. (copy 2),
GW., LP., *L. (686. g. 21), *N., *UW., *C, *C2. (Capell. R. 6.) and *WR copies.
184 is printed for 185 in the *L. (G. 11537) and *M. copies. 212 is printed for 240 in
the FOLG. (John Evelyn—Hoe) copy. In many copies there is an imperfect impression
of the page-number 7 and in some the number is not printed. This seems to be due either
to improper inking, or more probably, to the hole in the frisket having got slightly out
of register, thus causing the frisket to " bite.” All of the copies checked were found to
contain all of the errors in pagination given in the original list above for the basic copy,
but it is possible that there are other copies in which some of these errors have been cor-
rected, or in which additional errors appear.
Contents: [Alr], Title; [Alv], Dedication to Queen Elizabeth; A2r-[M5r],
the text of Book I; [M5V], Full-page woodcut of St. George and the Dragon
1596THE FAERIE
QVEENE
'Difpofed into twelue books,
fashioning
XII. Morall vermes*
LONDON
Printedfor William Ponfonbic.
t 5 9 6.THE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER
19
[from the same block as that in the 1590 edition] ; [M6r]-Bb3r, the text of
Book II; Bb3v, blank; Bb4r—[Oo8r], the text of Book III; [Oo8r], Two
sonnets, A Vision vpon this conceipt of the Faery Queene, and Another of
the same, signed W. R.; [Oo8v], Poem of six stanzas To the learned
Shepheard, signed Hobynoll.
Running-titles: Printed in roman capitals in this edition, with page numbers
near the outer margins and canto numbers (e. g., Cant. L, etc.) near the
inner margins. A2V— [M5r], 'The I. Booke of The | Faerie Queene.’ ;
[M6V]—Bb3r, 'The II. Booke Of The | Faerie Queene.’ ; Bb4v—[Oo8r],
' The III. Booke Of The | Faerie Queene.’
Misprints in running-titles: ‘ Queeene ’ for 'Queene’ on D3r, Flr, F2r and H3r;
* Boobe ’ for ' Booke ’ on [A5T]; ' The II. Booke ’ for ' The III. Booke ’ on CclT; ' Cant.
II.’ for ' Cant. I.’ on [A5r]; ’ Cant. I.’ for ' Cant. IX.’ on [V7V]. The last of these errors
has been corrected in the TS. (copy 2), *L. (G. 11537) and *HN. copies. All of the
others are found in every copy checked, but it is possible that copies exist in which some
of the other errors have been corrected,	or in which additional	errors have been introduced.
Copy used: Tudor and Stuart Club	copy;	[the former	Beverly Chew copy].
Other copies: TS. [copy 2: title-page in facsimile] ; FOLG. [John Evelyn—Hoe
copy] ; GW.; PML.; HD.; RPH. [Gollancz copy, imperfect] ; WASH.; LP.
[imperfect]; *UW.; *HN.; *N.; *WR.; *L. (2 copies: G. 11537 and 686.
g. 21) ; *0. [imperfect, wants title-page]; *M. [imperfect, wants title-page];
*C.; C2. (2 copies: Capell R. 6 and Grylls. 3. 418) ; **UC.; **E2.; **CWC.;
**L18.
There are many other copies in existence, but the total number seems to be considerably
less than for the Second Part, 1596, or for the 1590 edition. Probably only one-half or
one-third as many copies were printed of the second edition of the First Part in 1596 as
were printed of the first edition of the	Second	Part.
Notes: 1. This, the second edition of Books I to	III, has been	printed page-for-page from	a
copy of the 1590 edition in which some incidental revisions in manuscript had been made,
probably by Spenser himself. The wording of the dedication to Queen Elizabeth has been
changed, and one stanza has been added at Book I, Canto XI, stanza 3 (pp. 155-56). The
resultant discrepancy in page setting has been caught up at the end of Canto XI, and the
page-for-page correspondence continues from that point to the end of Book III. The final
stanzas of the last canto of Book III have been completely revised, and the 5 stanzas of
1590 reduced to 3 in this edition. The letter to Raleigh, the commendatory verses and
dedicatory sonnets which had appeared at the end of the 1590 edition were not reprinted,
except for the two sonnets by W. R. and the poem To the learned Shepheard by Hobynoll.
It seems probable that the printer selected only enough of this supplementary matter of
the 1590 edition to fill out his Oo gathering and purposely omitted the rest rather than
to print an additional sheet. The printer, in resetting from 1590, has followed the con-
fusion in pagination existing in that edition from page 79 to page 95, but after the skip-
ping of 79 and 80, continues the numbers in order to 95 and 96, which he repeats. As in
the 1590, page 510 is misprinted 600 and the catchword on page 330 is printed, incor-
rectly, * The/
2.	The British Museum copy, 686. g. 21, has a gathering of 8 leaves, signed Pp, bound
at the end, containing the letter to Raleigh and the other supplementary matter. These
leaves do not belong here, however, but have been taken from a copy of the 1590 edition
and inserted in this copy.20	A	CRITICAL	BIBLIOGRAPHY	OP
11	THE FAERIE QUEENE, Second Part [First edition of Books IV
to VI]	1596
Title: The Second | Part Of The | Faerie Queene. | Containing | The
Fourth, | Fifth, and j Sixth Bookes. | By Ed. Spenser. | [device of
Richard Field (McKerrow No. 222)] | Imprinted at London for Wil-
liam | Ponsonby. 1596.
Format and Collation: Quarto, bound in eights: A-Z8, Aa-Ii8, Kk4; 260 leaves.
First 4 leaves of each gathering signed, except the title-page and Kk4.
Pagination: Commencing on A2V with the number 2, pages are numbered 2, 5-
518 [nos. 366 and 367 repeated].
Errors in pagination: The pagination throughout most of the volume is based upon
taking the title-page as page 1. On this basis 2 should be regarded as a misprint for 4,
and 1, 2 and 3 as not numbered. Additional errors are 28 for 30; 29 for 31; 15 for 153;
342 for 332; 366 and 367 are repeated and this error continued through the remainder
of the volume, so that the last page should be numbered 520 instead of 518. All copies
checked contain the above errors except the YEC. copy, which has p. 153 correct, and *L.
(copy C. 12. h. 18) and *C., which have 332 correct. Additional errors are found in some
copies. 421 is printed for 422 [424] in FOLG. (both copies), PML., WELL., YEC., *L.
(686. g. 22), and *HH. (copy 2). 271 is printed for 269 and 274 for 272 in N.Y.,
*UW., *L. (686. g. 22), *M. (2109), *HH. (copy 2), *C., and *CH. Copies may
exist which exhibit still other errors in pagination.
Contents: [Alr], Title; [Alv], blank; A2r-M3r, the text of Book IV; M3V
blank; M4r-Zlr, the text of Book V; Zlv, blank; Z2r-[Kk4v], the text of
Book VI.
Running-titles: Printed in roman capitals, with the page numbers near the outer
margins and the canto numbers (e. g., Cant. I., etc.) near the inner margins.
A2V—M3r, ' The IIII. Booke Of The | Faerie Queene.’ ; M4v-Zlr, * The V.
Booke Of The | Faerie Queene.’ ; Z2v-[Kk4v], * The VI. Booke Of The |
Faerie Queene.’
Misprints in running-titles: 'Queeene’ for 'Queene’ on [D6r], [G5r], [G6r], and
[I5r]; 'Cant. I.’ omitted on A2T; 'Cant. VI.’ for 'Cant. V.’ on [E7T]; 'Cant. II.’ for
' Cant. I.’ on Nlr; ' Cant. VI.’ for ' Cant. V.’ on [Q7T]; ' Cant. VII.’ for ’ Cant VI.’ on
[R5V] ; ' Cant. VI.’ for ' Cant. VII.’ on	Ee4T; '	Cant. V.’ for ’ Cant. VIII.’ on	Ff3r;	’ Cant.
X.' for ' Cant. XI.’ on [Hh8T].
In addition, some copies, including TS. (copies 2 and 3), *C., *C®. (all copies), and
*UW., have ' Cant. XI.’ for ' Cant. X.’ on Xlr. Copies may exist in which some of the
above errors have been corrected, or in which additional errors appear.
Entry in Stationers’ Register: 20° die Ianuarij. / . [1596]
Master Ponsonby Entred for his copie vnder the handes of the Wardens, The second parte
of the ffaery Quene conteining the . 4. 5. and . 6. bookes .... vjd
[Arber, III, 57.]
Copy used: Tudor and Stuart Club copy; [the former Beverly Chew copy].
Other copies: TS. (copy 2); TS.	(copy	3: imperfect); FOLG.	(No.	49);
FOLG. [John Evelyn—Hoe copy,	No. 534] ; GW. (2 copies) ; PML.; PFOR.
[Griswold—Purdy copy] ; N.Y.; W1LM. [Haber copy] ; BC.; HD. (2 copies,THE SECOND
PART OF THE
FAERIE QVEENE.
Containing
The Fovrth,
Fifth, and
Sixth Bookes,
By Ed. Sp enfer.
Imprinted at London For William
Ponfonby* 15 $6.THE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER
21
one in the Widener collection) ; WELL.; MHS.; YEC.; WASH.; RPH. [Gol-
lancz copy, 1596]; *RPH. [Gollancz copy, 1590-96]; *RT.; *HN. (2 copies:
62002 and 56862, vol. 2) ; *N. (2 copies) ; *CH.; *UW.; *WR. (2 copies) ;
*T. [Stark collection]; *L. (4 copies: C. 12. h. 18.; G. 11536.; G. 11537.,
and 686. g. 22) ; *0 (2 copies: Malone 616 and 4°. S. 22. Art. Seld.) ; *M.
(2 copies: 2109 and 20032) ; *C.; *C2. (4 copies: Capell R. 7. and S. 18. 1.,
VI. 2. 63., and Grylls. 3. 419) ; *HH. (2 copies) ; **AEN.; **GA.; **EWS.;
**HAIGH.; **E2.; **WS.; **AAS.; **CHAT.; **HERB.; **FUR.;
**UCH.; **WH.; **L1S.
In addition to these copies, there may be as many as 50 more sound copies in existence,
as well as a number of very imperfect copies.
Note: In the few copies that we have examined for this point, we do not find as great a
variety in the lots of paper used for the printing of this first edition of the second part
of the Faerie Queene as we found in the case of the first edition of the first part printed
in 1590. Up to the inner sheet of the S signature we find only 2 lots of paper used, each
with watermarks of the type of a two-handled jug or " pot ”, with cresting and fleuron,
similar to Heawood No. 179. The two lots are to be distinguished by slight variations
in their watermarks. From the inner sheet of the S signature to the end of the volume,
2	entirely different lots of paper were used, bearing 2 distinct types of a watermark con-
sisting of a one-handled jug or " pot,” surmounted by a crown and fleuron, similar to
Heawood No. 169.
12	THE FAERIE QUEENE	[First	folio edition] 1609
Title: The Faerie | Queene, | Disposed Into | XII. Bookes, | Fashioning
twelue Morall Vertues. [device of Humphrey Lownes (McKerrow
No. 335)] | At London. | 5 Printed by H. L. for Mathew Lownes. |
1609.
*Separate title-page to the second part on [Q5r] :	The | Second | Part Of
The | Faerie Queene: | Containing | (Fourth, | The (Fift, & | (Sixt Booke. | —
By Ed. Spenser.— | [device of Humphrey Lownes (McKerrow No. 335)] j
Imprinted at London for Mathew Lownes. | 1609.
Colophon: [Ii3v]: [head-piece {TPB No. 180, head)] | [rule] | 1609. | [rule] |
[printer’s device (McKerrow No. 211)] | At London, | Printed by H. L. for
Mathew Lownes. | [conventional tail-piece, from same block as that on Olr of
this volume].
Format and Collation: Folio: A-Y6, Aa-Hh6, Ii4; 184 leaves.
The first 4 leaves of each gathering are signed, except Ii, of which only 2 leaves are signed.
Pagination: Commencing with A2r, pages numbered 1 to 363. Blank pages and
title-pages are counted but not numbered; p. 186 is not numbered.
Errors in pagination: 10 for 8; 31 for 311.
Contents: [Alr], Title; [Alv], Dedication to Queen Elizabeth, set between a
large, woodcut head-piece (TPB No. 174, head) and a tail-piece (TPB No.
177, foot); A2r-[E6V], (pp. 1-58), the text of Book I; Flr-L2r, (pp. 59-
121), the text of Book II; L2V, blank; L3r—Q4r, (pp. 123-185), the text of
Book III; Q4V, Commendatory verses, A Vision vpon this conceipt of the
Faerie Queene and Another of the same, signed, W. R., and To the learned22	A	CRITICAL	BIBLIOGRAPHY	OF
Shepheard, signed, Hobynoll; [Q5r], Title to the second part; [Q5V] blank;
[Q6r]-X4r, (pp. 189-245), the text of Book IV; X4V, blank; [X5r]-Ddlv,
(pp. 247-300), the text of Book V; Dd2r-Hh3v, (pp. 301-352), the text of
Book VI; Hh4r, Head-title: Two Cantos Of Mutabilitie: Which, both for
Forme and Matter, appeare to be parcell of some following Booke of the Faerie
Queene, Vnder The Legend Of Constancie. Neuer before imprinted.; Hh4r—
[Ii3r], (pp. 353-363), the text of the Cantos of Mutabilitie; [Ii3v], Colophon;
[Ii4], blank leaf. [In some copies, including the present, the final blank leaf
is missing; it is present and genuine in other copies, however.]
The verses are printed in double columns, with the stanzas numbered consecutively through-
out each canto. At the beginning of each canto is a large woodcut compartment enclosing
the four lines of argument. Compartments of four different designs are used in these
places, but there is no regular order governing the appearance of the various designs. Orna-
mental initials are used for the opening line of every canto except Book IV, Canto IV.
Running-titles: Printed in large roman capitals above an horizontal rule, with the
proper page number near the outer margin and the proper canto number (e. g.,
Cant. I., etc.) near the inner margin. A2V-[E6V], * The First Booke Of | The
Faerie Queene.’ [' Faerie ’ spelled ‘ Faery ’ on page 9] ; Flv-L2r, ' The Second
Booke Of | The Faerie Queene.’ ; L3v-Q4r, ' The Third Booke Of | The
Faerie Queene.’ ; [Q6v]-X4r, ‘ The Fourth Booke Of | The Faerie Queene.’
['Fourth’ misprinted ‘Fift’ on pp. 228, 232, 234 and 238] ; [X5V]—Ddlv, * The
Fift Booke Of | The Faerie Queene.’ ; Dd2v-Hh3v, * The Sixt Booke Of | The
Faerie Queene.’ ; Hh4v— [Ii3r], The Seventh Booke Of | The Faerie Queene/
[‘Seventh’ misprinted ' Seaventh ’ on pp. 360 and 362]. Beginning with the
X gathering near the end of Book IV, alternate gatherings have the spelling
' Faery ’ in the running-titles. The following signatures have * Faery ’ through-
out: X, Aa, Cc, Ee, Gg, Ii.
Two types of the letter ' C ’ were used in * Cant.’, the one an ordinary capital ’ C ’ from
the same font as the other type, and the other a much larger swash ' C ’. As the printer
did not regularly distribute the type of the running-titles along with that of the rest of
each form, these typographical variations furnish a clue to the division of the work be-
tween compositors.
Entries in Stationers' Register: 3 Septembris [1604]
Master waterson Entred for his copies, certen copies which were Master
ponsonbies . . . iiij8 vjd
viz
ij The ffayrie quene both partes by Spencer
This entrance is made by order of a Court of Assistentes holden
this Day
[Arber, III, 269.]
/ 5 Novembris. / [1604]
Master Matthue Entred for his copies by consent of Master Waterson and A
Lownes	Court holden this day. These Eight Copies folowinge . . . iiij8
Viz.
The fame Quene both partes by Spencer
These entrances are made by Aucthority of a Court of Assistantes
holden this Day.
[Arber, III, 274.]4T>apbndida.
An Elegie vpon the
death of the noble and vertuous
Douglas Howard, Daughter and
heirc ofHenry Lord Howard
count rByndonldnd Wife ofAr-
thurc Gorges Efqutcr.
'Dedicated to the Right honorable the Lady
Hf/«w,MarquciIc of Northampton.
'Ey Ed. Sp.
At London
‘VrintedforWilliam Ponibnby^fiK#f in
Paulcs Churchyard at the fignc of the
Biibopshcad 15pi.THE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER
23
Copy used: Tudor and Stuart Club copy.
Other copies: FOLG.; HD. (2 copies) ; Y.; RPH.; *L. [copy C 57. f. 6]; *N.;
*M.; *HN.; *UW.; *WR. (2 copies) ; *C. (2 copies) ; *C2. (2 copies).
These copies all contain only the 1609 Faerie Queene, except the Harvard copy 14446.7 F,
which has the 1611 printing of the letter to Raleigh, etc., inserted at the end. This 1609
edition of the Faerie Queene is frequently found bound in a volume with the 1611-13 folio
editions of the other works. The FOLG. (No. 447) and *0. (Malone 7) copies are
examples of this. Furthermore, with its title-page cancelled by the 1611 general title-page,
it forms the Faerie Queene portion of the earliest issued copies of the collected works.
A great many copies of this 1609 Folio are still in existence, and are to be found not only
in private libraries, but in university and college libraries throughout America and Great
Britain.
Notes: 1. This is the first edition containing the Cantos of Mutabilitie.
2.	Except for the Cantos of Mutabilitie, this edition was set from a copy of the 1596
edition of both parts, in which a few minor corrections in manuscript may have been in-
serted. It follows the 1596 Quarto in omitting the letter to Raleigh and most of the other
supplementary matter which appeared at the end of the 1590 edition. Like the 1596, it
reprints at the end of Book III only the two sonnets by W.R. and the poem To the
learned Shepheard. In some copies of this 1609 Folio we find at the end a gathering of
8 leaves signed containing the letter to Raleigh, etc. This section, however, is identical
with that appearing in the volumes of the collected works dated 1611, and is unquestion-
ably a later insertion.
3.	Copies exist of the Faerie Queene containing the 1609 edition of the first part bound
with the 1612-13 edition of the second part. Examples are the Huth copy, now in the
Tudor and Stuart Club Library, the *L. (78. g. 13) and the **WAC. copies. [See the
descriptions of the folio editions of 1611 to 1617.1
13	DAPHNAIDA	[First	edition] 1591
Title: Daphnaida. | An Elegie vpon the | death of the noble and vertuous |
Douglas Howard, Daughter and | heire of Henry Lord Howard, Vis- |
count Byndon, and wife of Ar- | thure Gorges Esquier. | Dedicated to
the Right honorable the Lady | Helena, Marquesse of Northampton. |
By Ed. Sp. | [printer’s device of Thomas Orwin (McKerrow No.
273«)] | At London | Printed for William Ponsonby, dwelling in |
Paules Churchyard at the signe of the | Bishops head 1591.
Format and Collations Quarto: A—C4; 12 leaves.
First 3 leaves of each gathering signed, except title-page.
Pagination: None.
Contents: [Alr], Title; [Alv], blank; A2r—A2V, Dedication To the right Honor-
able and vertuous Lady Helena Marquesse of North-hampton dated, London
this first of lanuary. 1591-, and signed, E. Sp.; A3r-[C4V], the text of the poem.
The catchword on Blr is misprinted ' A ’; the first word on the following page is ' All
Running-titles: A2V, The Epistle.', A3V—[C4V], Daphnaida.
Entry in Stationer’s Register: None.
Copy used: Barton collection, Boston Public Library, **G. 177. 3.24	A	CRITICAL	BIBLIOGRAPHY	OP
Other copies: *HN. [Locker-Lampson—Church copy]; *L. [Grenville copy; im-
perfect: lacks dedication leaf, A2.]. Only these three copies are known.
Note: The dedication to this poem is dated, London this first of lanuary. 1591- There has
been some controversy as to whether this is to be regarded as being modern style. Spenser
adopted the modern style in the Shepheardes Calender and it is defended at length in the
generall Argument to that work. Lady Douglas Howard died in August, 1590, and it
would seem likely that the poem was written not long after her death. If we are to adopt
the hypothesis that the date of the dedication follows the old style in which the new year
commenced on March 25th, then we must explain why Colin Clout is dedicated from
Kilcolman on the 27th of December, 1591, just five days earlier, for Spenser could hardly
have been in Ireland on the one date and in London on the other. It seems to me that
the hypothesis that Spenser was using the modern style in dating this poem is far more
likely to be the correct one, and I have no hesitation in following the majority of the
editors of Spenser in placing the publication of Daphnaida at the beginning of the year
1591, new style. It would thus immediately precede the Complaints. [This question is
discussed at greater length by Ernest de Selincourt in his edition of Spenser*s Minor Poems,
(Oxford, 1910), pp. xxi-xxiii.]
14	COMPLAINTS	1591
Title: [within a woodcut border, with figures of David and Moses at the
sides (TPB No. 117)] Complaints. | Containing sundrie | small Poemes
of the j Worlds Va- j nitie. | Whereof the next Page j maketh menti- |
on. | By Ed. Sp. | [ornament consisting of four hands pointing inward] |
London, j Imprinted for William | Ponsonbie, dwelling in Paules j
Churchyard at the signe of j the Bishops head. | 1591. [date set in
panel in lower border].
*On [Elr] there is the following separate title-page, with the same border, orna-
ment and imprint as the general title-page described above: The | Teares of
the Mu- | ses. | By Ed. Sp.
*On [Llr] there is the following separate title-page, with the same border,
ornament and imprint as the general title-page described above: Prosopopoia. |
Or | Mother Hubberds Tale. | By Ed. Sp. | Dedicated to the right Honorable |
the Ladie Compton and | Mountegle.
*On [Tlr] there is the following separate title-page, with the same border and
ornament and, except for the date in the panel of the lower border, the same
imprint as the general title-page described above. The date in this case is 1590
instead of 1591: Muiopotmos, | Or | The Fate of the Butterflie. | By Ed. Sp. |
Dedicated to the most faire and | vertuous Ladie: the Ladie | Carey.
Format and Collation: Quarto: A-Z4; 92 leaves.
First 3 leaves of each gathering signed except title-pages, A3, E2 and T3.
In the *CH. and *L. (239. i. 1.) copies Y2 is not signed. In some copies G2 is mis-
printed G4, X3 is misprinted B3 and Y2 misprinted Y3. See Note 2 below.
Pagination: None.
Contents: [Alr], Title; [Alv], A note of the sundrie Poemes contained in this
Volume.; A2r—A2V, The Printer to the Gentle Reader.', [A3r], Head-title, The
Ruine Of Time., set within the panel in the head-piece, followed [A3r]-[A4r],Complaints.
Containing fun dm
J'mall ‘Toewej of the
W oilds Va*
nitie.
Whereof the next Page
maketh menti-
on.
By Ed. Sp.
8
03^43)
Londo n.
Imprinted for VWilliam
Vonfonbie3 dwelling in Paules
Churchyard at the fignc of
the ‘Btfljons hc*d.THE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER
25
by the prose dedication To the right Noble and beautifull Ladie, the La. Marie
Countesse of Pembrooke., signed E. S.; [A4V], blank; Blr-[D4V], the text
of The Ruines of Time; [Elr], Title-page to The Teares of the Muses; [Elv],
blank; [E2r], Prose dedication To The Right Honorable the Ladie Strange
signed Ed. Sp; [E2V]-[G4V], the text of The Teares of the Muses; Hlr, Head-
title, Virgils Gnat. Long since dedicated To the most noble and excellent Lord,
the Earle of Leicester, late deceased., followed by the dedicatory sonnet; Hlv—
[K4V], the text of Virgils Gnat; [Llr], Title-page to Prosopopoia. Or Mother
Hubberds Tale.; [Llv], blank; L2r-L2v, Prose dedication To the right Honour-
able, the Ladie Compton and Mountegle., signed Ed. Sp.; L3r, Head-title, Pro-
sopopoia: or Mother Hubberds Tale., followed, L3r— [Q4V], by the text of
Mother Hubberds Tale; Rlr, Head-title, Ruines of Rome: by Bellay., followed,
Rlr—[S4V], by the text of the Ruines of Rome; [Tlr], Title-page to Muio-
potmos; [Tlv], blank; T2r—T2V, Prose dedication To the right worthy and
vertuous Ladie, the La: Carey.; [T3r], Head-title, Muiopotmos: or The Pate
of the Butterflie., followed, [T3r]—X2r, by the text of Muiopotmos; X2V,
blank; X3r—Ylv, the text of Visions of the worlds vanitie; Y2r—Zlv, the text
of The Visions of Bellay; Z2r, Head-title, The Visions of Petrarch formerly
translated., followed, Z2r-Z3v, by the text of The Visions of Petrarch; [Z4],
blank leaf.
Running-titles: A2V, To the Reader.; [A3V], Dedicatorie.; [A4r], The Epistle;
Blr-[D4V], The Ruines of Time, [lower case r in ruines on B2r, B2V, B3V
and B4V]; [E2V]-[G4V], The Teares of the Muses.; Hlv-[K4v], Virgils
Gnat.; L2V, The Epistle.; L3V—[Q4V], Mother Hubberds Tale.; Rlv—[S4V],
Ruines of Rome.; T2V, The Epistle.; [T3v]-X2r, Muiopotmos.; X3r—Ylv,
Visions of the worlds vanitie. [V in Vanitie capitalized on Ylr and Ylv] ; Y2r-
[Y4V], The Visions of Bellay.; Zlr—Zlv, Visions of the worlds vanitie. [an
error for The Visions of Bellay]; Z2V, The Visions of Petrarch; Z3r-Z3v,
Visions of Petrarch.
All running-titles are printed in italic type, except those to Spenser’s dedicatory epistles,
which are printed in roman type.
Entry in Stationers’ Register: 29 Decembris [1590]
William Pon-	Entred for his Copie / vnder the handes of Doctor Staller and bothe
sonbye /	the wardens, A booke entytuled Complaintes conteyninge sondrye
smalle Poemes of the worldes vanity .... vjd
[Arber, II, 570.]
Copy used: Tudor and Stuart Club copy; [former F. E. Sotheby copy].
Other copies: RNY. [W. A. White copy]; PML.; N.Y.; GW.; FOLG. (4
copies: Nos. 452, 399, 274 and 174, the last imperfect, lacking the last
3 leaves) ; WILM. [Prince—Halsey—Huntington—Clawson copy] ; BC.
[Huth copy, uncut]; BO.; MHS.; HD. [2 copies: the Thos. Jolley and
the Widener copies]; WELL, [bound in two volumes[; YEC.; PFOR.
[Ross—Winans copy]; RPH. [Lilburn—Gollancz copy]; *HN. [Locker-
Lampson—Church copy] ; *CH. [Sir H. H. Edwardes copy] ; *WR.; *N.;
*RT.; *L. (3 copies: G. 11539-, C. 39. 1. 5. and 239. i. 1) ; *0. [Malone
copy]; *M. [Althorp copy] ; *HH.; *CORN.; *HS.; *C2. (2 copies: the26	A	CRITICAL	BIBLIOGRAPHY	OF
Capell and the Wright copies) ; **G. (2 copies: Co. 3. 19. and Co. 3. 20.) ;
**E3.; **CWC [Roxburghe—Sykes—Heber—Pyne—Hagen copy]; **WAG
[Bridgewater—Huntington copy] ; **DOM.; **L6.; **WS.; **CHAT.;
**Q.
In addition to the 44 copies listed above, there are probably at least 25 more sound copies
in existence. There are also a great many fragments in existence, containing one or more
sections of the whole volume. Such fragments are to be found in the following libraries:
N.Y. [Muiopotmos]; RPH. [Teares of the Muses and Mother Hubberds Tale]; *0.
[General title, Ruines of Time,	and Teares of the	Muses] ; *M.	[Muiopotmos];	*C.
[Muiopotmos];	**E3. [Mother	Hubberds Tale];	**E. [Mother	Hubberds Tale	and
Muiopotmos].
Notes: 1. The date 1590 on the separate title-page to Muiopotmos, which is at variance with
the date 1591 on the other title-pages in the Complaints volume, has long been a source
of confusion to editors of Spenser. It has been suggested that Muiopotmos was published
separately in 1590, or that it was printed first, with the intention of issuing it separately
in that year, and then, through a change in plan, annexed to the Complaints volume.
Against either of these theories is	the fact that the signatures of every	copy, including those
found separately, clearly indicate	that it is a part of	the Complaints.	The key to the	final
solution of this problem is to be found in the typographical make-up of the four title-pages
in this volume. If these title-pages are examined minutely it soon becomes clear that the
printer, following a common practice, made use of the same setting of type for successive
title-pages insofar as this was practicable, disturbing the type and " furniture ” in the
compartment as little as possible when the necessary changes were made for the new title-
page. If we assign to each title-page a number corresponding to the order of its appearance
in the volume, it is clear that the order of their printing must either have been (1), (2),
(3), (4), or (4), (3), (2), (1). Points to be noted are: (a) The date, 1591, remains
the same in (1), (2) and (3). In (4) it is entirely reset as 1590. (b) The four lines of
the imprint, ' Imprinted for . . . the Bishops head/ remain unchanged in all four title-
pages. (c) The first * n ’ in * London ’ is inverted in all four title-pages, (d) The line
'London* is set very close to the line below in (1) ; in (2) it is raised and separated
from this line by a greater distance; in (3) it is raised still further, and (4) is identical
with (3) with respect to the position of this line. The crowding of the line * London ’
down close to the following line in (1) was the consequence of the large amount of
printed matter set above it in the compartment. In (2), (3) and (4) there was no need
for crowding, (e) The ornament, owing to the crowded title-page, is placed much lower
in (1) than in (2), (3) and (4); its position is identical in (2), (3) and (4). (f) The
line * By Ed. Sp/ is printed from the same setting of type in (1) and (2), although it is
higher on the page in (2). This line was reset for (3) and this setting used also for (4).
(g) The line * Or * is printed from the same setting of type in (3) and (4).
On the basis of the combined evidence of all these points, it seems almost certain that
the actual order of printing was (1), (2), (3), (4). On a priori grounds this is what
we would naturally expect, for there are no breaks in the series of signatures that lead us
to suspect that the book was printed in other than the logical order. Moreover, it seems
most unlikely that the printer, having achieved a satisfactory spacing of the matter in the
lower portion of the title-page compartment in (4) and (3), would have disturbed this
arrangement quite unnecessarily in (2), which is what we would have to assume if the
order were (4), (3), (2), (1).
If, then, the title-pages were set up and printed in the order (1), (2), (3), (4), the
probable explanation of the date of Muiopotmos is that when the printer reached that
point he realized that the volume would be completed and ready for sale in 1590 (old
style) instead of 1591, and changed the date on the title-page accordingly. [I am indebted
to Mr. Harold Stein for directing my attention to several of the points noted in the fore-
going discussion].
2.	On the basis of the misprinted signatures B3 for X3 and Y3 for Y2, which are found
in some copies, booksellers have sometimes attempted to distinguish two " issues M of theTHE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER
27
Complaints. There is no justification whatever for such a distinction. Although most
copies which contain one of these misprints also contain the other, PML. and FOLG.
(452) have X3 misprinted B3, but Y2 correct, while N.Y., FOLG. (274), *C2. (Capell
copy) and *L. (G. 11539) have Y2 misprinted Y3 but X3 correct. We have here another
case in which the differences in copies of the same edition are clearly due to the binding up
of corrected and uncorrected sheets indiscriminately. Professor W. L. Renwick, in his
edition of the Complaints, (London, 1928), gives on page 266 a table of variant readings
for 5 different copies. Unfortunately, this table contains several errors and misprints and
is far from complete. Nevertheless, making due allowance for its errors, the table still
clearly proves that the copies consist of a haphazard mixture of corrected and uncorrected
sheets. This table could be increased to several times its size by the data of a similar
nature obtained from the copies of the Complaints checked in the course of the preparation
of this bibliography, were it necessary to bring forward any further evidence to establish
this point.
In addition to the two misprinted signatures already mentioned, G2 is misprinted G4
in some copies. The correction of the misprints of G2 and X3 appears to have coincided
with textual corrections made in the same forme. Three copies, the Huth, the Huntington
and the Chapin copies, have G2 misprinted G4. At G2r, line 9, the last word is ’ raime ’
in the Huth copy. HN. and CH. read * raine.’ In all other copies checked this is corrected
to * crime' and the misprinted signature, G4, corrected to G2. Similarly, all copies having
X3 misprinted B3 contain the reading * did slily frame ’ on signature Xlr, line 12, and the
reading * natures * on [X4V], stanza 8, line 12. All copies having signature X3 correctly
printed have the reading on [X4V] corrected to * natiue,' and all but one, L. (G. 11539),
have the reading on Xlr corrected to * framde craftilie.’ It thus appears that the correction
of the misprint, B3 for X3, coincided with the first textual correction made in the same
forme. There are no textual variations corresponding to the correct and incorrect printing
of the signature Y2. However, the two copies in which Y2 is unsigned read * gold ’ at
[Y2r], stanza 2, line 8, and f astonied ’ at [Y4r], line 1. All others, except the Huth copy,
read * golds ’ and ' astoined \ regardless of whether Y2 is signed Y2 or Y3. In the Huth
copy Y2 is signed correctly, but the readings are * golds ’ and * astonied/ It would seem
more probable, therefore, that the misprinted signature, Y3 for Y2, was due to the figure
* 2 ’ having been pulled out in inking, and a * 3 ’ wrongly inserted in its place. The
position of the * Y ’ is the same in both cases. The misprint Y3 for Y2 would thus
represent the later state of this forme. [A special bibliographical and textual study of
the variant readings in the Muiopotmos section of a number of different copies of the
Complaints volume has been made by Dr. Ernest A. Strathmann in an unpublished
dissertation in the Johns Hopkins University Library, entitled, A Critical Edition of
Spenser’s "Muiopotmos,”]
3.	The table of variant readings for different copies of the Complaints shows very clearly
that the text underwent very careful proof-reading and revision while it was going through
the press. In many of the formes a number of important corrections were made and the
nature of many of these is such that it seems highly improbable that they could be the
work of any person other than Spenser himself. If Spenser did not carefully oversee the
printing of this volume, our only alternative is to conclude that the printed sheets were
subjected to a most painstaking and accurate collation with this original manuscript.
Several of the corrections are of the sort that would not have been detected in the course
of ordinary proof-reading in an Elizabethan printing-shop, even though the standard of
accuracy was far above the average. As Spenser must still have been in London at the time
the Complaints was being printed, there is every reason to suppose that he himself attended
at the printing-house to correct the proofs. Furthermore, each of the separate title-pages
occurs on the first leaf of a gathering, and this suggests the possibility that the volume
may have been designed so that it could be divided up into four sections, and copies of
each section be presented by Spenser to the lady to whom it was dedicated.
4. There has heretofore been much uncertainty as to who printed the Complaints volume.
The title-page border would point to Thomas Orwin, and this led Herbert, Sinker, and
others to identify Orwin as the printer. These compartments, however, were often loaned
by one printer to another and thus do not in themselves furnish any positive evidence as to28	A	CRITICAL	BIBLIOGRAPHY	OF
the press from which a certain volume in which they appear was issued. The initials which
we find in the Complaints, on the other hand, are not those which occur with the greatest
frequency in Orwin’s books, and have thus come to be regarded as characteristic of works
from his press. This has led many to doubt that Orwin was the printer. The evidence
which I have been able to gather on this point may be summarized as follows:
There are six ornaments in the Complaints which, in addition to the title-page border,
may be of assistance in identifying the printer. (1) The head-piece (19-5x77 mm.)
appearing on A2r, L2r and T2r. (2) The head-piece compartment (19-5 x 68 mm. enclosing
5x40.5 mm.) appearing on [A3r]. (3) The ornamental initial, S, (34x34 mm.) on A2r.
(4)	The factotum (18x18mm. enclosing 5x5 mm.) on [E2rj. (5) The initial, M,
(34 x 34 mm.) on [A3r3, L2r and T2r. (6) The ornament of a mask with rings on [A4r].
(1) and (3) are probably cast blocks. They occur frequently in books printed.by Orwin,
but there were probably several blocks such as (1) and alphabets like (3) in existence,
for they are to be found in books by a number of other printers. The head-piece (2) was
used by Orwin in a number of books printed at this period, but the same, or a very similar,
block has been noted in books by other printers. The factotum (4) occurs three times in
the edition of Leonard Digges’ A Booke named Tectonicon, printed by Thomas Orwin in
1592, appearing on ClT, [E4V], and G2r. In each case the same corner of the border is
broken as in the Complaints, although the block itself has been inverted. It seems certain,
therefore, that we are here dealing with the same block. The ornament (6), probably a
cast block, is found in books by several different printers of the period, and there were
apparently several examples of it in existence. The elaborate initial, (5), I was unable
to trace, but Mr. F. S. Ferguson informs me that he has been able to locate it in one other
book printed by Orwin; namely, SOPHRONISTES. A Dialogue, perswading the people
to reuerence and attend the ordinance of God, in the ministrie of their owne pastors.
4to., London, Thomas Orwin for Thomas Man, 1589. I SIC No. 22930].
All of the ornaments appearing in the volume having thus been traced to Orwin’s press,
it is now possible to say with certainty that Thomas Orwin was the printer of Spenser’s
Complaints.
5.	There are in existence a number of manuscript copies of the Complaints or of por-
tions thereof. All of these, however, seem to have been copied from the printed text of
1591. None have been proved to possess any independent authority. The two manuscripts
most often cited by Spenser editors are Harleian MS 6910 in the British Museum and the
manuscript of Mother Hubberds Tale, dated 5 die Junij 1607, which belonged to Dr.
Grosart. The latter manuscript is now in the possession of the Rosenbach Company in
New York.
15	AMORETTI AND EPITHALAMION	1595
Title: Amoretti | And | Epithalamion. | Written not long since | by Ed-
munde | Spenser. | [device of Peter Short (McKerrow No. 278)] j
Printed for William [ Ponsonby. 1595.
Colophon: [H8r]: [between a small band of type ornaments at the top of the
page and a larger one at the foot] Imprinted by P. S. for Wil- | liam Ponsonby.
Format and Collation: Small Octavo: A—H8, with a half-sheet of 4 leaves, signed
on the first leaf, inserted between [Al] and A2; 68 leaves.
First 3 leaves of each gathering signed, except title-page, ft 2, ft 3 and G3; A4 is signed.
"Pagination: None.
Contents: [Alr], Title; [Alv], blank; lr-[j[ 2r], Ponsonby’s dedication To
the Right Worshipfull Sir Robart Needham Knight, signed W. P; [fl 2V],
blank; [jf 3r], Sonnet entitled G: W. senior, to the Author; [fl 3V], blank;AMORETTI
Epithaìamion.
Written not longjìnce
by Edmunde
Sfenfer.
Printed for William
JP onßntyrjßs*THE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER
29
[j[ 41], Sonnet signed G. W. I.; [fl 4V], blank; A2r-[F6r], the Amoretti, set
one sonnet to a page, and numbered Sonnet. I. to Sonnet. LXXXIX.; [F6V]-
G2r, Anacreontic verses, the first beginning, ' In youth before I waxed old.’ ;
G2V, blank; [G3r], Sub-title: [between a small band of type ornaments at
the top and a larger one at the foot of the page] Epithalamion. | [device of
Peter Short (McKerrow No. 278)].;	[G3V], blank; [G4r]—[H7V], the
Epithalamion, set one stanza to each page; [H8r], Colophon; [H8V], blank.
From [ft 3r] to the end of the volume, each page, except those noted in the collation as
blank, has a small band of type ornaments at its head and a larger band extending across
the foot of the page.
Running-titles:	lv-[fl	2r], ' The Epistle | Dedicatory.’ There are no head-lines
in the rest of the volume.
Entry in Stationers’ Register: xix° die Novembris. [1594]
William Pon- Entred for his Copie vnder th[e h]andes of the Wardens, A booke enti-
sonby.	tuled Amoretti and Epithalamion written not longe since by Edmund
Spencer . . . vjd
[Arber, II, 665.]
Copy used: Tudor and Stuart Club copy; [the former W. A. White copy].
This copy has the following leaves supplied in facsimile: ft 1, [ft 2], [ft 3] and [H8].
None of these leaves contain any of Spenser’s text.
Other copies: BC. [Richard Farmer—Britwell—H. V. Jones copy] ; PFOR. [Bol-
land—Utterson—Halliwell-Phillipps—Corser—Brooke copy] ; FOLG. [Mars-
den J. Perry copy, imperfect;	1,	2,	Hi and H8 in facsimile]; *HN.
[Locker-Lampson—Church copy]; *WR. [Lefferts copy, imperfect]; *L.
[Grenville copy]; *0. [Malone copy, imperfect; lacks Al, A8, Hi and H8];
*M. [Althorp copy]; *E2. [Drummond copy]; *C2. [Capell copy].
Only these 11 copies are known to exist at the present day. There has been some mystery
about the copy listed in the Huth Catalogue in 1880. Apparently this copy was not at
hand when the catalogue was being prepared, for its binding was not described, as was
done in the case of all other volumes. Either this copy must have been lost, or it might
have been included in the catalogue because Mr. Huth was expecting to secure a copy
within a short time and did not wish so important an item to be left out. W. C. Hazlitt,
however, notes a copy as being in the Huth library in his Handbook in 1867, which rules
out the latter hypothesis. What became of this copy is unknown. If it had been available
Grosart would probably have used it for his edition of 1882 instead of the British Museum
copy. So far as I have been able to discover, there has been no trace of this copy since its
appearance in the 1880 catalogue. It has usually been reported as " mislaid.”
Notes: 1. There has been considerable uncertainty among some bibliographers as to the
actual collation of the preliminary leaves in this volume. The Pforzheimer copy, how-
ever, being rather loosely bound, furnishes definite evidence on this point, for [ft 2] and
[ft 3] can be clearly seen to be conjugate. What we have, therefore, is a half-sheet of
four leaves, signed ft on the first leaf, inserted between the title-page and A2. This is
what we would naturally expect, for these leaves contain only the publisher’s dedication
to Sir Robert Needham and the two complimentary sonnets and could very likely have
been added as an afterthought. The Capell copy does not contain these four leaves of
preliminary matter. Dr. W. W. Greg in his Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward
Capell to the Library of Trinity College, in Cambridge (Cambridge, 1903), p. 144, states
rightly enough that " it is possible that some copies of the Amoretti were issued without
this addition.”
2.	In his edition of Daphnaida and Other Poems, (London, 1929), Professor W. L.30	A	CRITICAL	BIBLIOGRAPHY	OF
Renwick gives on p. 237 a table of variants that he has noted in the text of the Edin-
burgh University, Bodleian and British Museum copies. This table is incorrect in one
particular. In the Bodleian copy the u is not inverted in the word ' poure ’ at [H5T],
line 4. After making this correction, we find that in respect to these variant readings,
TS. agrees with *Ea.; *HN., *WR., and *M. agree with *L.; BC, PFOR., FOLG.,
and *C2. agree with *0. It is probable that a complete textual collation of all known
copies would reveal still other variant readings.
16	COLIN CLOUTS COME HOME AGAINE	1595
Title: [within a border of type ornaments] Colin Clouts | Come home
againe. | By Ed. Spencer, [printer’s device of Thomas Creede (Mc-
Kerrow No. 299)] | London Printed for William Ponsonbie. | 1595.
Colophon: [K4r]: London j Printed by T. C. for William Ponsonbie. | 1595.
Format and Collation: Quarto: A-K4; 40 leaves.
The first 3 leaves of each gathering are signed, except the title-page and E3.
Pagination: None.
Contents: [Alr], Title; [Alv], blank; A2r-A2v, Dedication To The Right
worthy and noble Knight Sir Walter Raleigh, . . . dated, From my house of
Kilcolman, the 27. of December. 1591. and signed, Ed. Sp.; A3r-E2v, the
poem Colin Clouts come home againe; [E3r], Sub-title: [between head- and
tail-pieces of type ornaments] Astrophel. | A Pastorall Elegie vpon [ the death
of the most Noble and valorous | Knight, Sir Philip Sidney. | Dedicated | To
the most beautifull and vertuous Ladie, the Countesse | of Essex.; [E3V],
blank; [E4r]-[F4V], the poem Astrophel-, Glr-G3r, the poem The dolefull
lay of Clorinda, without any title, but separated from the preceding poem by a
tail-piece of a band of type ornaments on [F4V] ; [each page from Glr to G2V
has a band of type ornaments at its head and another at its foot; G3r-H2r, the
poem The mourning Muse of Thestylis; H2r—[H4V], A pastorall Aeglogue
vpon the death of Sir Phillip Sidney Knight, &c. signed at the end with the
initials L. B.; Ilr-K2r, An Elegie, or friends passion for his Astrophill;
K2r—K3r, An Epitaph vpon the right Honourable sir Phillip Sidney knight:
Lord gouernor of Flushing; K3V—[K4r], Another of the same; [K4r], Colo-
phon; [K4V], blank. [Each page from Ilr to K3r has a band of type orna-
ments at its head and another at its foot; K3V has a band of type ornaments at
its head only.]
Running-titles: A2V, The Epistle Dedicatorie. [in roman type] ; A3V-E2V, and
[E4V]-[F4V], Colin Clouts | come home againe. [in large roman type]. There
are no head-lines from Glr to the end of the volume.
Entry in Stationers’ Register: None.
Copy used: Tudor and Stuart Club copy; [formerly the Lord Vernon copy].
Other copies: WASH.; PML.; F0LG. [3 copies, Nos. 10, 452 and 534]; GW.
[Hoe—Steeves—Kern copy] PFOR. [Lilburn—Hagen copy] ; W1LM. [Haber
copy] ; BC. [Sir H. H. Edwards copy] ; BO.; MHS.; HD. [2 copies, one in
the Widener Collection] ; WELL.; YEC.; RPH. [2 copies, the Edgar F. LeoCOLIN CLOVTS
Come home againe
Bj Ed. Spencer.
LONDON
Printed for William Ponfcmlie,
I J 9 J.
'ititi!-Fovvre Hymnes,
MADE BY
Edm. S penser.
London,
Printedfor William Ponibnby.THE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER
31
copy and the Gollancz copy]; *CH.; *WR.; *N.; *HN.; *RT.; *L. [3
copies, G. 11536, G. 11540 and 686. g. 22]; *0.; *M.; *HH.; *C2. (2
copies) ; **G.; **E3.; **L6.; **WS.; **AEN. [Locker-Lampson—H. V. Jones
copy]; **NWL. [W. A. White copy]; **AAS.; **CWC.; **Q. (2 copies).
In addition to these 41 copies, there are probably at least 25 more in existence which
I have not traced.
Notes: Professor W. L. Renwick, in his edition of Daphnaida and Other Poems, (Lon-
don, 1929), pp. 233-34, notes that two states of the outer forme of sheet C exist in
different copies. Overlooking a few minor errors in his table of variants, probably due
to misprints, we find that out of the 30 copies checked for this point, only the following
14 have the revised state of this form: TS.; FOLG. (No. 10); BO.; WILM.; MHS.;
HD. (Widener copy); WELL.; YEC.; *N.; *CH.; *L. (copies G. 11536 and G.
11540) ; *0.; *HH. A careful collation of the text in a number of copies would prob-
ably reveal still other variant readings.
17	FOWRE HYMNES (with the second edition of Daphnaida) 1596
Title: [ornamental head-piece] | Fowre Hymnes, | Made By | Edm.
Spenser. | [device of Richard Field (McKerrow No. 222)] | London, |
Printed for William Ponsonby. | 1596.
*	On [G2r] there is a separate title-page to Daphnaida as follows: Daphnaida. |
An Elegie | Vpon The Death | Of The Noble And | Vertuous Douglas | How-
ard, daughter and heire of | Henry Lord Howard, Viscount Byn- | don, and
wife of Arthur | Gorges Esquier. | Dedicated to the Right honorable the Ladie |
Helena, Marquesse of Northampton. | By Ed. Sp. | [device of Richard Field
(McKerrow No. 164)] | At London | Printed for William Ponsonby, | 1596.
Format and Collation: Quarto: A-I4, K2 [sewing after Kl] ; 38 leaves.
First 3 leaves of each gathering signed, except title-pages and K2. In some copies 13 has
no signature-mark and in others, including the present, there is only a faintly inked
impression of the very top portion of the signature-mark. This was probably due to the
hole in the frisket having been slightly out of register during the printing of part of this
forme, thus causing the frisket to " bite.”
Pagination: Commencing with A3r, pages numbered 1 to 71.
Blank pages, title-page, and page 50 are not numbered.
Contents: [Alr], Title; [Alv], blank; A2r-A2T, Dedication To The Right
Honorable And Most Vertuous Ladies, the Ladie Margaret Countesse of Cum-
berland, and the Ladie Marie Countesse of Warwicke, dated Greenwich this
first of September. 1596. and signed Ed. Sp.; A3r— [B4V], An Hymne In
Honour Of Loue; Clr-D2r, An Hymne In Honour Of Beautie; D2V-E3V, An
Hymne Of Heauenly Loue\ [E4r]-Glr, An Hymne Of Heauenly Beautie;
Glv, blank; [G2r], Title to Daphnaida; [G2V], blank; G3r—G3T, Dedication
To The Right Honorable And Vertuous Lady Helena Marquesse of North-
hampton, dated London this first of lanuarie. 1591- and signed Ed. Sp.; [G4r]—
[K2r], the text of Daphnaida; [K2y], blank.
Running-titles: Printed in roman capitals. A3v-[B4r], ' An Hymne | Of Loue.’ ;
[B4V], ' An Hymne Of Loue.’ ; Clv-D2r, * An Hymne | Of Beautie.’ ; D3r-
532	A	CRITICAL	BIBLIOGRAPHY	OF
E3V, ' An Hymne Of | Heauenly Loue.’ [' Of ’ omitted on D4V] ; [E4V]—Glr,
' An Hymne Of | Heauenly Beautie.’ ; G3V, ' The Epistle.’ ; [G4v]-[K2r],
1 Daphnaida.’
Entry in Stationers’ Register: None.
Copy used: Tudor and Stuart Club copy.
Other copies: RNY. [W. A. White copy] ; RNY. [Locker-Lampson—Halsey—
Huntington—Clawson copy] ; PFOR. [Britwell copy] ; BC. [Hoe—Hagen
copy]; BO.; HD.; WELL, [imperfect]; Y. [Vickery copy, imperfect:
lacks Daphnaida section]; RPH. [Gollancz copy]; *ROS. [uncut copy];
*RT.; *CH. [Beverly Chew copy]; *HN. [Church copy] ; *WR. [Lefferts
copy] ; *L. [Grenville copy] ; *0. [Malone copy] ; *M.; *HH.; **L6.; **WS.;
**CHAT. (2 copies).
In addition to these 23 copies there are a few others which I have not traced.
Note: In all the copies that I have examined personally, line 13, page 4, has been cor-
rected by the supplying of the letter ' d ’ in ink in the same contemporary hand, as indi-
cated: " Ayre hated earth, and water hate(d) fyre.” Of the copies which have been
checked by correspondents, only *ROS., *CH. and *RT. report that the ' d ’ is not so
supplied. This seems definitely to be a printing-house correction, made in all except a
few copies. Probably those lacking this correction were among the first issued from the
press.
18	PROTHALAMION	1596
Title: Prothalamion | Or | A Spousall Verse made by | Edm. Spenser. |
In Honour Of The Dou- | ble mariage of the two Honorable & vertu-
ous | Ladies, the Ladie Elizabeth and the Ladie Katherine [ Somerset,
Daughters to the Right Honourable the | Earle of Worcester and es-
poused to the two worthie ( Gentlemen M. Henry Gilford, and | M.
William Peter Esquyers. | [diamond-shaped printer’s ornament] | At
London. | Printed for William Ponsonby. | 1596.
Format and Collation: Quarto: A4, B2 [sewing after Bl] ; 6 leaves.
All leaves signed except title-leaf and A4.
Pagination: Commencing with A2r, pages numbered 1 to 10 in the center of each
page, above the running-title but below the band of type ornaments at the top
of the page.
These numbers also correspond to the number of stanzas in the poem, and might possibly
be regarded as stanza numbers.
Contents: [Alr], Title; [Alv], blank; A2r-B2v, the text of the poem, set one
stanza to a page, with a small band of type ornaments extending across the top
of each page and a broader band across the foot of each page.
Running-title: A2r-B2v, Prothalamion, set below the ornamental head-band and
the page number.
Entry in Stationers’ Register: None.
Copy used: Tudor and Stuart Club copy.Prothalamion
Or
A Spoufall Verfemade by
Edm. Spenjer.
IN HONOVR. OF THE DOV
ble mariage ofthe two Honorable & vertuous
Ladies ¿he Ladie Elizabeth and the Ladte Katherine
Somerfet, Daughters to the Right Honourable the
Earle of IVorcefler and cfpouicd to the two worthie
Gentlemen M. Henry Gilford, and
Vi»WiUtAm TfffrEiquycij.
AT LONDON.
Printed for vvtilt Am Bon/only*THE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER
33
Other copies: BC. [Huth copy] ; PFOR. [Roxburghe—Sykes—Heber—Britwell
copy] ; BO.; HD. [Gaisford—W. A. White copy] ; YEC. [Hoe copy] ;
RPH. [Gollancz copy] ; *HN. [Church copy] ; *RT. [W. K. Bixby copy] ;
*WR. [Leiferts copy] ; *L. [Grenville copy] ; *0. [Malone copy] ; **WS.;
**CHAT.
In addition to these 14 copies, there are 4 others which I have not traced; namely, the
second Heber copy with notes by Waldron, the J. B. Inglis copy, the Locker-Lampson
copy in vellum binding with calf back, and the Sir J. A. Brooke copy in half brown
morocco sold at Sotheby's on May 25, 1921. It is possible that the first three of these
are included in the list of 14 copies given above.
Notes: 1. The printer of the Prothalamion is unknown. In so small a volume, having
only one ornament, and that a rather commonplace initial, there is practically nothing
upon which to base any identification of the printer.
2.	Some copies had the incorrect catchword, 1 To/ printed at the foot of B2r, and it
has been customary to distinguish such copies as First Issues. Most copies have the
catchword corrected to * From/ Of the 13 copies checked for this point, only WR. and
WS. have the incorrect catchword * To/ Whether the distinction customarily made
between " issues ” on the basis of this misprinted catchword is a sound one is not
altogether certain. In this small volume of only six leaves, the correction of ’To’ to
1 From ’ on B2r may have been the only correction made during the course of the printing.
It would require a complete textual collation of several of the existing copies to determine
this point, and no such collation has as yet been made.
3.	The double marriage of the two daughters of Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Wor-
cester, which Spenser honored in the Prothalamion, took place at Essex House on the 8th
of November, 1596. The publication of the Prothalamion, therefore, was probably subse-
quent to that of the second part of the Faerie Queene} and the Fowre Hmynes•
19	THE FOLIO EDITIONS OF THE WORKS 1611 to 1617
The Nature of the Collected Editions: An examination of a number of copies
of the collected editions of Spenser’s works commonly designated as the 1611
and 1617 Folios, reveals that in no case were these editions printed as a unit.
Instead, they were made up by issuing as a single volume a number of separate
sections which had been printed independently at periods often several years
apart. A general title-page was prefixed to these issues of the collected works,
bearing the date 1611 or 1617, but these dates are in many instances at variance
with the dates of the component parts. Therefore, for the purposes of biblio-
graphical description, the following seven sections must be considered inde-
pendently: (1) the general title-page and dedication; (2) the first part of The
Faerie Queene, consisting of Books I to III; (3) the second part of The Faerie
Queene, consisting of Books IV to VI and the Cantos of Mutabilitie; (4) the
letter to Raleigh, the commendatory poems and dedicatory sonnets; (5) The
Shepheards Calender', (6) Prosopopoia or Mother Hubberds Tale ; (7) Colin
Clouts come home againe, and the rest of the minor poems.
At times during the period in which these collected editions were being
issued the stock of some particular section would become exhausted. This
section was then entirely reset and reprinted. As a result, we have two distinct
editions of each of these seven sections. When the works were collected into
one volume, however, first editions of one section might, and usually did, appear
with the later editions of other sections. We must recognize also that besides34	A	CRITICAL	BIBLIOGRAPHY	OF
being issued as a part of the collected works, many of these sections were
undoubtedly sold separately. We find today many copies of single sections,
especially those of the Shepheards Calender and the Prosopopoia.
Below each section is described separately, in both its first and its second
edition. The exact composition of copies of the collected editions can thus be
checked against these descriptions. Likewise, copies of single works in folio,
bearing dates from 1611 to 1617, can be checked against the appropriate
descriptions.
Section I: The general title-page and the dedication to Queen Elizabeth.
A.	First Printing: 1611.
Title: [within an elaborate woodcut border, originally cut for the
1593 edition of Sidney’s Arcadia, (see TPB No. 212)] The |
Faerie Queen: | The | Shepheards Calendar: [ Together | With
The Other | Works of England’s Arch-Poet, | Edm. Spenser: j
5 Collected into one Volume, and | carefully corrected. | Printed
by H. L. for Mathew Lownes. | Anno Dom. 1611.
Collation: A single folio sheet consisting of two unsigned leaves.
Where the following section in the volume is the 1609 printing of the first part
of the Faerie Queene, these two leaves were intended to cancel the first leaf,
[Al], of that section, which contained the 1609 title-page on its recto and the
dedication to Queen Elizabeth on its verso. Some copies of the collected works
lack this general title-page, and the title-page to the 1609 edition of the Faerie
Queene stands as the title-page to the entire volume. Copies in the Bodleian
(Malone 7) and the Folger (No. 447) are examples of this. When the first
part of the Faerie Queene was reprinted, the leaf [Al] was left blank. Thus in
some copies containing the second printing of the Faerie Queene we find that
the two leaves containing the general title-page and dedication are inserted
between the blank leaf, [Al], and leaf A2 of the Faerie Queene section. In the
majority of copies, however, the leaf [Al] appears to have been cancelled.
Contents: [7rlr], Title; [irlv], blank; [7r2r], Dedication to Queen Eliza-
beth, set between woodcut head- and tail-pieces; [the tail-piece is listed
as No. 181 (foot) in TPB~\ ; [7r2v], blank.
Copy used: The Tudor and Stuart Club copy.
B.	Second Printing: 1617.
Title: Identical with the first printing except that the type has been
entirely reset and the date changed to 1617.
Collation and Contents: The same as in the first printing. The dedication
has been reset with some minor typographical changes, and one altera-
tion in spelling; viz., ' Seruaunt ’ to * Seruant.’ The woodcut tail-piece
has been changed, the foot-piece of TPB No. 176 being used here.
Copy used: The Tudor and Stuart Club copy.THE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER
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Section II: The Faerie Queene, first part, (Books I to III).
A.	First Printing: 1609.
The sheets of the 1609 Folio edition of the Faerie Queene remaining in
stock were used for this section of the collected edition until they were
exhausted. See, therefore, the description of the 1609 Folio, Item 12. As
noted under Section I above, the 1609 title-page, [Al], was in most,
though not all, cases cancelled by the two leaves containing the general title-
page and dedication. Note also that in this printing the Q gathering con-
sists of six leaves. The first part of the Faerie Queene ends on Q4, and
[Q5] and [Q6] contain respectively the title-page and the first leaf of the
text of the second part. (See under Section III, B, below regarding the
combination of the first printing of this part of the Faerie Queene with
the second printing of the second part.)
B.	Second Printing: [sometime between 1613 and 1617].
This was a page-for-page reprint of the first printing. The collations of the
two printings are thus identical both as to signatures and contents, with the
following two exceptions: (1) The leaf [Al], which contained the 1609
title-page on its recto and the dedication to Queen Elizabeth on its verso,
is left blank in this printing. (2) The final, Q, gathering is set up and
printed so as to consist of four instead of six leaves, thereby making the
last leaf of the gathering correspond with the last leaf of the first part of
the Faerie Queene. This was done because the second part of the Faerie
Queette had been reprinted independently some time before, with its title-
page on the first leaf of a gathering signed ' R.’ (See Section 111, B, below.)
The following typographical differences between the two printings make it possible
to distinguish them from each other without difficulty: (1) The running-titles in the
second printing are set in slightly smaller type than in the 1609 printing. The dif-
ference is particularly noticeable in the case of the canto numbers. Moreover, there
is no variation in the size of the C in Cant., as in the 1609 printing. (2) The 1609
printing had ornamental initials at the beginning of every canto;	the second	printing
has plain initials. Only in the case of the proem to each of the	three books	do	the
two printings agree in using ornamental initials. (3) In the 1609 printing the first
four leaves of each gathering were signed; in the second printing only the first
three leaves were signed, except for A4, B4 and N4, which were signed.
Copy used: The Tudor and Stuart Club, (two copies)
Note: This printing follows the 1609 edition in having page 8 misnumbered 10;
in addition page 32 is misnumbered 23.
Section III: The Faerie Queene, second part, (Books IV to VI and the
Cantos of Mutabilitie).
A. First Printing: 1609.
The sheets of the 1609 Folio edition of the Faerie Queene remaining in
stock were used for this section, also, until they were exhausted. See, there-
fore, the description of the 1609 Folio, Item 12. It is evident, however,
that the remaining stock of the second part of the Faerie Queene was used
up some time before the sheets of the first part were exhausted. Fully one-36	A	CRITICAL	BIBLIOGRAPHY	OF
third of the copies of the collected works with the 1611 general title-page
which we have checked, have been found to have the Faerie Queene portion
made up of 1609 sheets for the first part (Books I to III), and of 1612-13
sheets for the second part. Many separate copies of the Faerie Queene
are found to be made up in the same fashion; e. g., the Huth copy now in
the library of the Tudor and Stuart Club, and the British Museum copy
78. g. 13. We have never seen or found any record of a copy made up of
sheets of the second printing for the first part and the 1609 printing for
the second part. If both parts had been reprinted at approximately the
same time, one would expect the latter combination to occur as frequently
as the former. Furthermore, there would have then been no occasion, in the
reprinting of the second part, to make its title-page fall on the first leaf of
a gathering. (See Section III, B, below.) Note particularly that the colla-
tion of the second part of the Faerie Queene in this first, (1609), printing
runs as follows: 2 leaves, [Q5] and [Q6], conjugate with Q2 and Ql in
Book III; R-Y6, Aa-Hh6, Ii4.
B.	Second Printing: 1612-13.
Title: The | Second | Part Of The | Faerie Queene: | Containing ]
(Fourth, | The (Fift, and | (Sixt Booke. | By Edm. Spenser. |
[device of Humphrey Lownes (McKerrow No. 335)] | Imprinted
at London for Mathew Lownes. | Anno Dom. 1612. [some copies
bear the date 1613, but only the last figure in the date has been
changed; the type has not been reset].
Colophon: [Hh5v] : [rule] | [woodcut head-piece (TPB No. 180, head)] |
[rule] | 16012. | [rule] | [printer’s device (McKerrow No. 211)] |
London, | Printed by H. L. for Matthew Lownes. | [woodcut tail-piece
(TPB No. 180, foot) ] | [rule] |
Collation: R—Z6, Aa—Hh6.
First 3 leaves of each gathering signed, except title-page. Sig. Cc3 is mis-
printed S3.
Pagination: Commencing with R2r, pages numbered 189 to 363. The
pagination corresponds with that of the 1609 printing, whereas the sig-
natures do not. Page 311 is correctly numbered in this printing.
Contents: [Rlr], Title to the second part; [Rlv], blank; R2r—[X6r], the
text of Book IV; [X6V], blank; Ylr-Cc3v [misprinted S3], the text
of Book V; [Cc4r]-[Gg5v], the text of Book VI; [Gg6r]-[Hh5r],
Two Cantos Of Mutabilitie; [Hh5v], Colophon; [Hh6], blank leaf.
The text is set in double columns and the stanzas numbered consecutively through-
out each canto. There is a woodcut compartment at the beginning of each canto
enclosing the four lines of argument. The same four compartments are used as
in the 1609 printing, although not always in the same order. There have also
been some changes in the top and bottom borders to these compartments.
Running-titles: Set in roman capitals above a horizontal rule, with the
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37
[e. g. Cant. etc] near the inner margin. R2v-[X6r], 'The Fourth
Booke Of | The Faerie Queene/ [' Fourth ’ misprinted ' Fift * on pp.
232 and 234, as in the 1609 edition]; Ylv-Cc3v [misprinted S3],
*	The Fift Booke Of | The Faerie Queene/ [' Fift ’ misprinted * Sixt *
on pp. 296 and 298]; [Cc4v]-[Gg5v], 'The Sixt Booke Of | The
Faerie Queene/ [' Cant. IX/ misprinted * Cant. X/ on p. 339, as in the
1609 edition]; [Gg6v]-[Hh5r], 'The Seventh Booke Of | The Faerie
Queene/ [' Seventh ’ misprinted ' Sixt * on p. 354].
Copy used: The Tudor and Stuart Club (3 copies).
Notes: 1. When it became necessary to reprint this second part of the Faerie Queene,
the printer apparently still had on hand a supply of the sheets of the 1609 print-
ing of the first part which he wished to use up. Therefore, he set up the title-
page to this second part so that it would be on the first leaf of the * R ’ gathering.
In the 1609 printing this title-page had been on [Q5]. Thus, although the 1609
edition was reprinted page for page, the signatures never correspond. The dis-
crepancy was made even greater because the compositor included in the series of
signatures the letter * Z ', which had been omitted from the 1609 series. This
variation in the signatures gives a ready test for distinguishing between the two
printings, and one that is much more reliable than the date on the title-page. It
will be seen that when this printing of the second part was to be bound with
the remainder sheets of the 1609 printing of the first part, the binder found that
leaves [Q5] and [Q6] of 1609 were duplicated by leaves [Rl] and R2 of the
new printing. He might cancel whichever pair he chose. Usually [Q5] and
[Q6] were cancelled. In the Huth—Tudor and Stuart Club copy of the Faerie
Queene, however, [Rl] and R2 were cancelled, so that in the resulting volume
the title-page to the second part bears the date 1609. Consequently, this copy was
recorded in the Huth Catalogue as a 1609 Folio, although the 1609 sheets actually
end with [Q6L
2. Other points which distinguish this printing from that of 1609 in the second
part are: (a) In the running-titles, the spelling is consistently faerie’ through-
out; (b) the running-titles are set in slightly smaller type, the difference being
especially noticeable in the case of the canto numbers; (c) only the first 3 leaves
of each gathering are signed. These points are particularly useful in detecting
cases where occasional leaves of one printing are found mixed up with sections
made up mainly of sheets of the other printing. Although it is not impossible
that some copies may have been originally issued with an indiscriminate mixture
of sheets of both printings, we have come across no cases that cannot be more
readily explained by the hypothesis that the copy in question had at some time
become defective and had been repaired by replacing the defective leaves by
leaves from another copy, which happened to contain the other printing of that
section.
Section IV: The letter to Raleigh, the commendatory poems, and dedica-
tory sonnets.
A.	First Printing: [1611].
Collation: fl8; 8 leaves, the first 4 signed.
Contents:	lr, [floret] A Letter Of The Authors, expounding his whole
intention in the course of this worke. ... To the right noble and valor-
ous, Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight, Lo: Wardein of the Stanneries, & her
Maiesties Lieutenaunt of the Countie of Cornewayll.; lr-fl 2V, the
text of the letter; 3r, [head-piece (TPB No. 185, head)], [floret] A38	A	CRITICAL	BIBLIOGRAPHY	OP
Vision vpon this conceit of the Faery Queene and Another of the same
[two sonnets, the second signed W. R.~]; f 3r-fl 3V, Poem To the
learned Shep heard signed Hobby noli followed, on 3V by poems signed
R. S., H. B., W. L., and Ignoto.; j[ 4r, [head-piece (TPB No. 180,
head)] Sonnets to Sir Christopher Hatton and Lo. Burleigh;	4V,
[head-piece (TPB No. 181, head)] Sonnets to the Earle of Oxenford
and the Earle of Northumberland', [j[ 5r], [head-piece (TPB No. 187,
head)] Sonnets to the Earle of Cumberland and the Earle of Essex;
[1i 5V], [head-piece (TPB No. 179, head)] Sonnets to the Earle of
Ormond and Ossorie and the Lo. Ch. Howard', [fl 6r], [head-piece
(TPB No. 177, head)] Sonnets to the Lord of Hunsdon and the Lord
Grey of Wilton; [j[ 6V], [head-piece (TPB No. 186, head)] Sonnets
to the Lord of Buckhurst and Sir Fr. Walsingham; [j[ 7r], [head-piece
(TPB No. 184, head)] Sonnets to Sir Ioh. Norris and Sir Wal. Raleigh;
[11 7V]> [head-piece (TPB No. 175, head)] Sonnet to the Countesse of
Penbroke; [fl 8], blank leaf.
Copy used: The Tudor and Stuart Club copy (1611).
Note: The material of this section, which had appeared at the end of the 1590
edition of the Faerie Queene, had not been included in the 1596 edition nor in
the 1609 edition, which was set up from a copy of the 1596. It was here
reprinted for the first time. The series of 15 dedicatory sonnets contained in this
edition follow the second set which we find in copies of the 1590, where they
appear on the 4 unpaged leaves signed ' Qq ’. Not all of the sonnets in the 1590
edition were printed with the signature E. S. at the end, but here all the sonnets
are so signed. This section was probably printed in 1611, when the other sections
of the collected works were printed. Copies of the 1609 Folio of the Faerie
Queene, when found separately, almost never contain it, and in cases where it
does appear it seems to have been inserted later.
B.	Second Printing: [1617]
Collation and Contents: Identical with that of the first printing, of which
it is a page-for-page reprint. The following differences in typography
may be noted:	(1) The first three lines of the text of the letter to
Raleigh here end, 'Allego-’, 'booke of’, and 'Faery’. In the 1611
printing they end, ' Alle-’, ' booke ’, and ' Faery ’. (2) The head-pieces
in this printing differ, the numbers of the TPB head-pieces appearing on
the respective pages being as follows: on 3r, No. 175; on 4r, No.
186; on j[ 4V, No. 186; on [fl 5r], No. 180; on [fl 5V], No. 180; on
[fl 6r], No. 186; on [fl 6V], No. 177; on [fl 7r], No. 181; on [j[ 7V],
No. 181.
Copy used: The Tudor and Stuart Club copy (1617).
Note: This section was probably reprinted at about the same time that the general
title-page was reprinted in 1617. All copies with the 1617 title-page which have
been checked have this second printing of this letter to Raleigh section. Only
two copies with the 1611 title-page have this printing.
Section V: The Shepheards Calender.
A.	First Printing: 1611.
Title: The | Shepheards | Calender: | Containing | Twelue JE-THE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER
39
glogues, Pro- | portionable To The Twelue | Moneths. j En-
tituled, | To the Noble and vertuous Gentleman, most j worthy
of all titles, both of learning and chi- | ualrie, Master Philip
Sidney. | [printer’s device of Humphrey Lownes (McKerrow No.
149)] | At London, | Printed by H. L. for Mathew Lownes, and
are to | be sold at the signe of the Bishops head in | Paules
Church-y ard. 1611.
Collation: A-E6, F4; 34 leaves, the last blank.
The first 3 leaves in each gathering are signed, except the title-page.
Pagination:	Commencing with [A6r], paged 1-56, giving a total of
[x] -f 56 + [ii] pages.
Contents: [Alr], Title; [Alv], Poem To His Booke, signed lmmeritd\
A2r-[A4r], Dedication to Gabriel Harvey, signed E. K.;	[A4V]-
[A5V], The Generali Argument of the whole Booke; [A6r]—F3V, The
twelve eclogues, each preceded by an illustrative woodcut and an Argu-
ment and followed by a Glosse; [F4], blank.
The woodcuts are printed from the same set of blocks as that used for all the
five preceding quarto editions. Owing to the wider folio page, however, these
woodcuts are here set between two vertical bands of woodcut ornaments. The
poems themselves are here printed in small roman type in double column. All
the rest of the text is set in single column. This edition was set up from a copy
of the 1597 Quarto, which it follows in omitting the stanza of the June eclogue
beginning: ' Now dead hee is, and lyeth wrapt in lead.’
Running-titles: A2V—[A4r], The Epistle.-, [A5r]-[A5V], The Argument.',
[A6r]-F3v, different running-title for each eclogue, consisting of the
name of the month in large roman capitals. In those cases where a new
eclogue begins at the top of a page, its title is set in much larger type
than that used elsewhere in the headlines for the ordinary running-titles.
Entry in Stationers’ Register: None. John Harrison the younger (i. e.,
John Harrison II) still owned the rights to the Shepheardes Calender.
Matthew Lownes may have made some private arrangement with him for
the publication of this edition. On the other hand, Lownes may have
had it printed so as to include it in the collected works without securing
Harrison’s consent, although we have no record of any suit or com-
plaint entered by Harrison which would confirm this conjecture. The
subsequent folio edition of 1617 was published by John Harrison,
although included in all the collected editions of that date published by
Matthew Lownes.
Copy used: Tudor and Stuart Club copy.
Note: When issued separately, this may be regarded as the sixth edition of the
Shepheardes Calender.
B.	Second Printing: 1617.
Title: The | Shepheards | Calender, j Containing Twelue ^glogues,
Propor-1 tionable To The Twelue | Moneths. [rule] | Entituled, j40	A	CRITICAL	BIBLIOGRAPHY	OF
To the Noble and Vertuous Gentleman, most wor- | thy of all
titles, both of Learning and Chiualrie. | Master Philip Sidney. |
[rule] | [triangular-shaped printer’s ornament] | [rule] | London, |
Printed by Bar: Alsop for Iohn Harrison the elder, and are to
bee | solde at his shop at the signe of the golden Anker | in Pater
Noster Row, 1617.
Collation, Pagination and Contents: Identical with that of the 1611 edition
described above, of which it is a page-for-page reprint. Leaf E3, how-
ever, is not signed in this edition.
As the 1617 and the 1611 editions were set up by different printers, they differ
throughout in the type and the ornaments used. In this 1617 edition the illus-
trative woodcuts are printed from the same twelve blocks that were used for all
the preceding editions, but are here set between two vertical bands of type orna-
ments, instead of between bands of woodcut ornaments as in the 1611 edition.
At the beginning of the April eclogue, ’ Aegloga quarta ’ is misprinted ’ Aegloga
quinta/
Copy used: Tudor and Stuart Club copy.
Note; In the imprint to this edition the bookseller's name is given as John Harrison
the elder. He is to be identified, however, as the John Harrison usually desig-
nated as John II. Until 1617 his name appears as John Harrison the younger,
but early in that year John Harrison the eldest (John I) died, and his will was
proved on February 11, 1617. [E. G. Duff, A Century of the English Book Trade
(London, 1905), p. 67.] Thereafter John II described himself as John Harrison
the elder, to avoid confusion with his nephew and his son, John III and John
IV, both of whom were active in the book trade. As John Harrison the younger
he published the second edition of the Shepheardes Calender in 1581 and the
subsequent editions of 1586, 1591 and 1597. Concerning Matthew Lownes' pub-
lication of the 1611 edition, see the description of that edition. This 1617 edition
is the seventh edition of the Shepheardes Calender, and the last in which the
original woodcut blocks were used. Although published by Harrison, it is included
in almost all the collected editions of the works issued by Lownes from 1617
onwards. There must therefore have been some special agreement between the
two publishers.
Section VI: Prosopopoia or Mother Hubberds Tale.
A.	First Printing: 1612-13.
Title: [head-piece (TPB No. 181, head)] | Prosopopoia. | Or |
Mother Hub- | berds Tale. | By Edm. Sp. | Dedicated to the right
Honourable, the Lady | Compton and Mountegle. | [large, circular
printer’s ornament] | At London, | Printed by H. L. for Mathew
Lownes. | Anno Dom. 1612. [some copies bear the date 1613, but
only the last figure in the date has been changed; the type has
not been reset].
Collation: A8; 8 leaves, the first 4 signed.
Pagination: [1] to 16; the first page actually numbered is A3r, which is
numbered 5.THE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER
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Contents: [Alr], Title; [Alv], blank; A2r, Dedication; A2V, blank;
A3r-[A8V], the text of the poem, set in double column.
Running-title: A3V-[A8V], Mother Hubberds Tale. [in roman capitals
above a single rule].
Copy used: Tudor and Stuart Club (2 copies).
Notes: 1. When Spenser's other minor poems were reprinted in 1611 to form a part
of the collected works. Mother Hubberds Tale was not included. The reason for
its omission undoubtedly had to do with its attacks on William Cecil, Lord
Burghley. Many contemporary references indicate that the Complaints volume
of 1591, in which Mother Hubberds Tale was first printed, had been banned or
" called in ” by the authorities. This would account for the absence of any new
edition of this very popular collection of poems prior to 1611, and for the number
of manuscript copies of these poems that exist. Although Lord Burghley had
died in 1598, his son, Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, was still alive in 1611 and
since his father's death had been Secretary of State and later, Lord Treasurer of
England. He might well be expected to object to the reprinting of poems
notorious for their bitter satire directed against his father. Thus the publisher,
Matthew Lownes, apparently found it either necessary or expedient to leave out
Mother Hubberds Tale when he reprinted the other poems in the Complaints
volume, and also to see that The Ruines of Time was revised so as to eliminate
the more objectionable passages. Robert Cecil died soon afterward, however, on
May 24th, 1612. With his death the last obstacle to the republication of Mother
Hubberds Tale was apparently removed. The poem was then printed as a sepa-
rate section of eight leaves and included in volumes of the collected works issued
after the end of the year 1612. [For a fuller discussion of this question see
Bernard E. C. Davis, " The Text of Spenser’s Complaints," Modern Language
Review, XX (1925), 21-24.]
2. The variation in the date on the title-page is the result of the changing of
the last figure only during the course of the printing, for careful tests show that
none of the rest of the type has been reset. It seems probable that the work may
have been going through the press shortly before the beginning of the new year,
and that the printer altered the date 1612 to 1613 in order that copies might bear
the date of the year in which they would actually appear on sale. In the copies
of the collected works which have been checked, no relation whatever was found
between the date on the title-page to Mother Hubberds Tale and the dates of the
other works in the volume. The 1613 title-page to this poem appears with the
1611 works and the 1609-1612 Faerie Queene as frequently as does the title-page
dated 1612. Some copies of the 1617 edition of the collected works have Mother
Hubberds Tale dated 1612.
B. Second Printing: N. D. [after 1620, but not later than 1629].
Title: [head-piece (TPB No. 183, head)] | Prosopopoia. | Or, |
Mother Hub- | berds Tale. | [rule] | By Edm. Sp. | [rule] | Dedi-
cated to the right Honourable, the Lady j Compton and Mount-
egle. | [rule] | [printer’s ornament: dragon between split column
and rose branch (identical with the right side of the compartment
used at the head of Book IV, Canto II, of the 1612-13 Faerie
Queene, and elsewhere throughout the folio editions of the Faerie
Queene)] | [double rule] | London, | Printed by H. L. and are
sold by G. Lathum.
Collation: A4, B—C2; 8 leaves. A2, A3, Bl and Cl are signed.42	A	CRITICAL	BIBLIOGRAPHY	OF
Pagination: [1] to 16; the first page actually numbered is A3r, which is
numbered 5.
Contents: [Alr], Title; [Alv], blank; A2r, Dedication; A2V, blank;
A3r—[C2V], the text of the poem set in double column.
This is a page-for-page reprint of the 1612-13 edition. It differs from
it only in minor details of typography, and in the collation.
Copy used: Sir Kenelm Digby’s copy of the collected works (1617) now
in the library of Lucius Wilmerding, Esq.
Other copies: *N.; *C.; *C2.; [in all cases as part of copies of collected
works with 1617 title-page].
Note: This edition of Mother Hubberds Tale cannot have been issued earlier than
January 31, 1620 [n. s.], the date on	which George Latham took up	his	freedom.
[Arber, III, 685] George	Latham	married Susan, the	daughter	of	Matthew
Lownes, and from 1622 to	1658 his	place of business is	given as	the	Bishop’s
Head in St. Paul’s Church	Yard. Matthew Lownes had	his shop	at	the same
location [see title-page to 1611 Shepheards Calender]. It is of course possible
that Lownes permitted his son-in-law to sell this new edition of Mother Hubberds
Tale. It seems much more likely, however, that this edition was not printed until
after Matthew Lownes’ death in 1625. Matthew’s son, Thomas, had a number
of his father’s copyrights transferred to him in the Stationers’ Register on April
10, 1627, and assigned them over to Humphrey Lownes and Robert Young on
May 30th of the same year. Spenser’s Faerie Queene was among these. On
November 6, 1628, Humphrey Lownes assigned his share in these copyrights
over to George Cole and George Latham. [For the entries in the Stationers’
Register see p. 44.] Humphrey Lownes apparently retired from business shortly
thereafter, for this is his last entry in the Register and he died some time between
November 7, 1629, and June 24, 1630. Considering these facts, it seems that the
most likely date for this edition of Mother Hubberds Tale is 1627 or 1628.
Although too much faith should not be placed in the wording of the imprint in
books of this period, yet the imprint in this case would seem to indicate thflf
the rights to the book still belonged to Humphrey Lownes, and that Latham’s
connection was that of a bookseller only and not a publisher. Another book
issued by Humphrey Lownes in 1627, John Hilton’s Ayres or fa la’s for three
voyces, bears a similar imprint; (i. e., 'sold by G. Lathum’). [For the facts
cited in this paragraph see R. B. McKerrow, A Dictionary of Printers and Book-
sellers . . . 1337-1640, (London, 1910), pp. 178-180, and H. R. Plomer, A
Dictionary of Booksellers and Printers . . . from 1641 to 1667, (London, 1907),
pp. 113-114.]
Section VII: Colin Clouts come home againe, and the rest of the minor
poems.
A.	First Printing: 1611.
Title: [head-piece (TPB No. 175, head)] | Colin Clouts | Come
Home | Againe. | By Edm. Spencer. | [large, diamond-shaped
printer’s ornament] [ At London, | Printed by H. L. for Mathew
Lownes.
The following poems have separate title-pages, each bearing the imprint,
*	At London | Printed by H. L. for Mathew Lownes. | 1611.’ :
Prothalamion, on [C2r] ; Amoretti and Epithalamion, on [C4r] ; Epitha-THE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER
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lamion, on [D6r]; Foure Hymnes, on [E3r]; Daphnaida, on [F5r];
Complaints, on [G4r] ; The Teares of the Muses, on [H4r],
There is a separate title-page for Muiopotmos, on [K6r], with the words
' At London ’ omitted from the imprint.
Collation: A-L6, M2; 68 leaves.
The first 3 leaves of each gathering are signed, with the exception of the title-
pages.
Pagination: None.
Contents: [Alr], Title; [Alv], blank; A2r, Dedication of Colin Clouts
come home againe to Sir Walter Raleigh; A2V, blank; A3r—Blr, the
text of the poem Colin Clouts come home againe; Blr—B2V, the text of
the poem Astro phel; B3r-[B4V], The mourning Muse of Thestylis;
[B5r]—[B5v], A Pastorall /.Eglogue vpon the death of Sir Philip Sidney,
Knight, &c.; [B6r]-Clr, An Elegie, or Friends Passion, for his Astro-
phell; Clr—Clv, An Epitaph vpon . . . Sir Philip Sidney . . . ; Clv,
An other of the same; [C2r], Title-page to Prothalamion;	[C2V],
blank; C3r—C3V, the text of the Prothalamion;	[C4r], Title-page to
Amoretti and Epithalamion\ [C4V], blank; [C5r]-[D5V], the text of
the Amoretti', [D6r], Title-page to Epithalamion; [D6V], blank; Elr—
E2V, the text of the Epithalamion; [E3r], Title-page to Foure Hymnes',
[E3V], blank; [E4r], Dedication of the Foure Hymnes; [E4V], blank;
[E5r]-[F4V], text of the Foure Hymnes; [F5T], Title-page to
Daphnaida', [F5V], blank; [F6r], Dedication of Daphnaida; [F6V],
blank; Glr—G3V, the text of Daphnaida; [G4r], Title-page to Com-
plaints ; [G4V], A Note of the sundry Poemes contained in this Vol-
ume', [G5r], Dedication of The Ruines of Time', [G5V], The Printer
to the gentle Reader', [G6r]—H3r, the text of The Ruines of Time’,
H3V, blank; [H4r], Title-page to The Teares of the Muses-, [H4V],
blank; [H5r], Dedication of The Teares of the Muses; [H5V], blank;
[H6r]—I3r, the text of The Teares of the Muses; I3V, blank; [I4r],
Head-title, Virgils Gnat, and dedicatory sonnet to the Earl of Leicester;
[I4V], blank; [I5r]-K2r, the text of Virgils Gnat; K2V, blank; K3r-
[K5V], The Ruines of Rome: by Bellay; [K6r], Title-page to Muio-
potmos; [K6V], blank; Llr, Dedication of Muiopotmos; Llv, blank;
L2r-[L4r], the text of Muiopotmos; [L4V], blank; [L5r]-[L6r],
Visions of the worlds vanitie; [L6r]—Mlr, The Visions of Bellay; Mlv,
blank; M2r-M2v, The Visions of Petrarch.
All the poems are set in double column; the dedications and other matter are in
single column. All the poems have apparently been set from copies of the earlier
quarto or octavo editions. Mother Hubberds Tale, however, has been omitted,
although the other poems in the Complaints volume are reprinted in the order
in which they appeared in that volume.
Running-titles: There is a different running-title for each poem, consisting
of the title of that poem, except in the case of the Amoretti, which has
the running-title, ' Sonnets.’ Each running-title is set above a horizontal
rule.
Copy used: Tudor and Stuart Club copy (1611).44	A	CRITICAL	BIBLIOGRAPHY	OF
B.	Second Printing: 1617.
Title: [head-piece (TPB No. 180, head)] [ Colin Clouts | Come
Home | Againe. j By Edm. Spencer. | [rule] | [large circular
printer’s ornament] | [rule] | At London, | Printed by H. L, for
Mathew Lownes.
There are separate title-pages to the same poems and on the same pages
as in the 1611 edition. Each of these title-pages, including that for
Muiopotmos, bears the imprint, ' At London, | Printed by H. L. for
Mathew Lownes. | 1617/
Collation and Contents: Identical with that of the 1611 edition, of which
this is a page-for-page reprint. There are slight differences throughout
in typography, and the ornaments used rarely correspond.
Copy used: Tudor and Stuart Club copy (1617).
Entries in Stationers’ Register: Although William Ponsonby had published
the first editions of all of Spenser’s original poems except the Shepheardes
Calender, the rights to the Faerie Queene were the only ones transferred
by entry in the Stationers’ Register. It is possible that there was a pri-
vate understanding whereby the rights to the other poems were included.
In any case, we have no record of anyone contesting Lownes’ right to
print these poems. Therefore, the following entries concerning the
Faerie Queene, made while copies of these folio editions of the collected
works were probably still being issued, are of some interest, particularly
with reference to the undated edition of Mother Hubberds Tale:
1.	10 Aprilis 1627.
Thomas Lownes	Entred vnto him for his Copies by Consent of a full Court
holden this day all the estate right title and Interest which
Mathew Lownes his father deceased had in the Copies here-
after mentioned, saveing to euery man his and euerye of
their rightes to them or anye of them. . . . viz1 . . . xiiij*
The fair ye queene by Spenser
.......................................[Arber, IV, 176.]
2.	30 Maij 1627.
Master Humphry	Assigned ouer vnto them by Thomas Lownes and by Consent
Lownes	of a full Court all the estate right and Interest which he hath
Robert Younge	or had in the Copies hereafter mencioned .	. xij8
The fairery queene by Spencer. /
............................................[Arber, IV, 180.]
3.	6°	Novembris	1628.
Master George	Assigned ouer vnto them by master Humphrey lownes at a
Cole	full Court holden the 28th of June [1628] last all his estate
Master George	right Title and interest in the Copies hereafter named
Latham	......................................................xiiij8
viz.* /
The fairy Queene by Edmund Spencer. /
............................................[Arber, IV, 205.]THE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER
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4.	6° Decembris 1630.
Master Younge. Assigned ouer vnto him by order of a Court of the 4th of
October [1630] last and by the Consentes, of Master Cole
and master latham All their estate right title and interest in
the Copies hereafter menconed which were the Copies of
master Humfrey Lownes. and assigned vnto them the said
master Cole and master Latham, 5° Novembris. 1628 . xiijs
The fairye Queene [by Edmund Spenser.]
...........................................[Arber, IV, 245.]
The Composition of Copies of the Collected Works: Any statements as
to the sections included or their order in copies of the collected works in
their original state as first issued must be mainly conjectural. It is quite
possible that no fixed order was followed in arranging the sections.
Furthermore, we must bear in mind, in examining any existing copy, the
possibility that its present state might also be attributed to, (1), a con-
temporary purchaser having bought the sections separately at different
dates, and later having them brought together in a single volume; or,
(2), the sections having been rearranged by a much later owner when
having the volume rebound. While not overlooking these facts, it still
seems possible to group the 50 odd copies checked in the course of this
survey into four classes, based upon the dates of their general title-page
and of the two parts of the Faerie Queene. The copies falling in each
group are listed below.
Group I: Copies having the 1611 general title-page, and the 1609
printing of both parts of the Faerie Queene:
The copies belonging to this group are PML., PFOR., WELL.,
RNY. (copy with Lord Byron’s bookplate), RHP. (copy in binding
by Riviere), *CH., *C. (O*. 9. 27.) and *UCH. In all of these
except RNY. the Mother Hubberds Tale section is absent; in the
RNY. copy this section is bound in at the end of the volume, and was
probably included at a later date. The absence of the Mother Hub-
berds Tale section from its usual place is thus a characteristic of the
copies which contain the 1609 printing of both parts of the Faerie
Queene. This group is the only one in which a clear majority of the
copies checked have the various sections bound in the same order.
This order of binding is also the logical one; namely, general title-
page and dedication, (1611) ; Faerie Queene, Parts 1 and 2, both
1609; Letter to Raleigh, etc., first printing; Shepheards Calender,
(1611); Colin Clout and other minor poems, (1611). Of the copies
checked, only the *UCH. has a different sequence of sections. It seems
reasonable, therefore, to regard the state represented by the other seven
copies in this group as typical of the earliest issue of Spenser’s collected
works.
Note: Two other copies, FOLG. (447) and *0. (Malone 7), have the 1609
Faerie Queene, both parts, and lack the Mother Hubberds Tale section. Both
of these, however, do not possess the 1611 general title-page, but have theA CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF
title-page to the 1609 Faerie Queene appearing first in the volume. Neither do
the sections appear in the same order as in the seven typical copies of Group I.
Group II: Copies having the 1611 general title-page, the 1609 printing
of the first part of the Faerie Queene and the 1612-13 printing of the
second part.
The copies belonging to this group are WASH., WILM., BO., LP.,
*N., *0. (M. 4. 5. Art.) and *T. (Aitkin copy). Two other copies,
RPH. (with S. Heathcote autograph) and *0. (Douce S. 817.), have
the 1609 Faerie Queene title-page at the beginning instead of the 1611
general title-page, but are otherwise similar to this group. The typical
copy of this class is made up as follows: (1) general title-page,
(1611) ; (2) Faerie Queene, Part I, (1609) ; (3) Faerie Queene,
Part II, (1612-13) ; (4) Letter to Raleigh, first printing; (5) Shep-
heards Calender, (1611) ; (6) Mother Hubberds Tale, (1612-13) ;
(7) Colin Clout and other minor poems, (1611). In the WASH,
copy, however, the Mother Hubberds Tale section is not present.
Furthermore, the order in which the last four sections appear varies
considerably in the different copies. Only the WILM., *N., *T., and
*0. (M. 4. 5. Art.) copies exhibit the order just named.
Group III: Copies having the 1611 general title-page and the second
printing of both parts of the Faerie Queene.
The copies belonging to this group are TS. (1611), FOLG. (2
copies, No. 13 and Smedley E-8), PFOR. (Craik copy), HD. (C. E.
Norton’s copy) ; Y. (Z. 76. 076.), RPH. (2 copies, Coryton Library
copy and copy in half morocco), *UW. (3 copies), *WR., *HN.
(69561), *T. (Aitken copy), *L. (79. h. 23.), *C2. (Capell F. 5.).
In general, copies of this group consist of the following sections, but
the order in which the sections are arranged varies considerably in the
different volumes : (1) general title-page, (1611) ; (2) and (3) Faerie
Queene, Parts I and II, both second printing; (4) Letter to Raleigh,
first printing; (5) Shepheards Calendar, (1611) ; (6) Mother Hub-
berds Tale, (1612-13) ; (7) Colin Clout and other minor poems,
(1611). Two of the sixteen copies in this group, the RPH. (half
morocco) and the *T. copies, have the second printing of the Letter
to Raleigh section instead of the first. One, *UW. (copy C), has the
1617 Shepheards Calender instead of the 1611.
Group IV: Copies having the 1617 general title-page and the second
printing of both parts of the Faerie Queene.
Eighteen copies belonging to this group were checked; namely, TS.
(1617) ; WILM. (2 copies, the Sir Kenelm Digby and the Alexander
More copies), HD. (14446. 8*), Y., RPH. (copy bound in red
morocco by Neidrée), *N., *T. (Aitken copy), *HN. (69580),
*UCH., *L. (2 copies, 1346. 1. 1. and C. 28. m. 7., the latter having
annotations by Thomas Warton), *0. (K. 4. 23*. Art.), *C. (2
copies, Syn. 4. 61. 40. and Adams 4. 61. 42.), *C2. (3 copies, CapellTHE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER
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F. 6., Grylls 32. 125. and VI. 4. 22.). All copies in this class, in
addition to the 1617 title and the second printing of both parts of
the Faerie Queene, have the second printing of the Letter to Raleigh
section and the second (1617) printing of the Colin Clout and minor
poems section. All but one, the *C. (Adams 4. 61. 42&3.) copy, have
the 1617 Shepheards Calender. Thirteen of the eighteen copies have
the first, (1612-13), printing of the Mother Hubberds Tale section.
This section is missing from the L. (1346. 1. 1.) copy. Four copies,
WILM. (Sir Kenelm Digby copy), *N., *C. (Adams 4. 61. 42.) and
*C2. (VI. 4. 22.), have the second, undated, printing of Mother Hub-
berds Tale.
Note: Of the copies checked, only complete copies of the collected works have
been listed in the above groups. There are a great number of copies of separate
sections to be found, and also volumes containing two or three sections bound
together.
The Probable History of the Printing of these Folio Editions: In view
of the confusion that has hitherto existed concerning the order in which
these folio editions were printed, it seems advisable to give here a brief
summary of the probable history of the printing of the Spenser folios,
based upon the facts set forth in the preceding descriptions and dis-
cussions.
In 1611 Matthew Lownes, who had already published the 1609
Folio edition of the Faerie Queene, decided to issue an edition of the
collected works of Spenser. As he still had sheets of the 1609 Faerie
Queene remaining in stock, he determined to use these up before
reprinting that work. He therefore caused Spenser’s other poems to be
reprinted, and at the same time had a new general title-page and dedi-
cation printed on a single folio sheet of two leaves, to be used to
cancel the title-page, [Al], of the 1609 Faerie Queene. Mother Hub-
berds Tale was not reprinted at this time for fear of giving offense to
Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury. The additional pieces which Lownes
had printed in 1611 were set up in three separate sections, one for the
Letter to Raleigh, which had not been included in the 1609 Faerie
Queene, one for the Shepheards Calender, and one for Colin Clout
and the rest of the minor poems. Thus the separate sections could be
assembled with the 1609 Faerie Queene and the new general title-page
and issued as the collected works, or they could be sold separately to
buyers who only wished to purchase certain individual works because
they already had copies of the others.
Near the end of the year 1612, the supply of the sheets of the second
part of the Faerie Queene, 1609 printing, became exhausted, while at
the same time a considerable stock of the sheets for the first part still
remained on hand. We have no way of determining what caused the
stock of the second part to be used up so much sooner, but a number
of possibilities suggest themselves, one of the most likely being that
part of the stock was damaged by fire or water while stored in the
shop. In any case, Lownes proceeded to have the second part of the48	A	CRITICAL	BIBLIOGRAPHY	OF
Faerie Queene reprinted separately, and, as this reprinting took place
near the end of the year, the date on the title-page was changed from
1612 to 1613 while the work was going through the press. At about
the same time Lownes had a new section printed containing Mother
Hubberds Tale, and this was included in subsequent issues of the col-
lected works. A similar change in the date on the title-page was made
during the course of the printing of this section. Some time later,
probably about 1614, the supply of the 1609 sheets for the first part
of the Faerie Queene was used up, and this section was then reprinted.
By 1617 the stock of those sections first printed in 1611 was about
exhausted. Accordingly Lownes had the Letter to Raleigh section, the
Colin Clout and minor poems section, and the general title-page
reprinted, with the new date of 1617. John Harrison, who owned the
copyright to the Shepheards Calender, apparently insisted upon the
right to issue the new edition of that poem, but an arrangement was
made between him and Matthew Lownes whereby this edition could
be included and sold by Lownes as a part of the copies of the collected
works.
Some ten years later the stock of the Mother Hubberds Tale section
was used up, and Humphrey Lownes, (Matthew Lownes having died
in 1625), reprinted it. It was sold by Matthew’s son-in-law, George
Latham, and also included in copies of the collected works issued
thereafter.
Note: The only satisfactory explanation heretofore advanced to account for certain
of the peculiarities to be noted in these folio editions of Spenser’s works is
that set forth by Dr. W. W. Greg in his Catalogue of the Books Presented by
Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge, (Cambridge,
1903), pp. 148-49. His hypotheses agree in the main with those outlined above,
but, since they were based upon the examination of comparatively few copies,
I have found it necessary to amplify them considerably and to revise them in
certain minor points in order to account for all the peculiarities noted in the
course of this survey. In one point I believe Dr. Greg to have been in error,
having been misled, no doubt, by the copy of the 1617 Folio in the Trinity
College Library (pressmark VI. 4. 22.). He is apparently referring to this copy
when he says that in 1617 " some copies of the 1609 Faerie Queene remained
and were issued with the	general title and additional matter	dated	1617.” The
check	of this copy which	I had made indicates that it contains, on the whole,
the sheets of the later printing of both parts of the Faerie Queene, but has a
mixture of 1609 sheets in the A and the D quires. The volume might, of
course, have been issued in this state, but it is more likely that the 1609 sheets
were inserted later to replace the original sheets which had been damaged or lost.
20	A VIEW OF	THE STATE	OF IRELAND	1633
This work	of Spenser’s was	published by Sir James Ware,	and	although it
occurs separately, it is usually found bound with the two histories of Ireland
by Edmund Campion and Meredith Hanmer which Ware published in the
same year. Each of the three sections of the volume was printed with a
separate series of signatures, but they are linked together by the title-
pages. Instead of describing the Spenser section only, it is thought best to
describe the entire volume, and to note the variant states in which it is
commonly found.THE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER
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Title-pages: A. To the Spenser section.
(1)	One state, probably the earlier: [within a woodcut architec-
tural compartment (TPB No. 274/?, with asterisks in place of
I R.)] A View I Of The State | Of | Ireland, j Written dialogue-
wise betweene | Eudoxus and Irenaeus, | By Edmund Spenser
Esq. I in the yeare 1596. ¡ [ornament: a cherub’s head on an
elaborate scroll-work bracket, reproduced by E. R. McC. Dix as
Franckton’s Ornament E. in Transactions of the Bibliographical
Society, VIII (1907), p. 225] | Dublin, | Printed by the Society
of Stationers. | M. DC. XXXIII. [the imprint is set in the panel
in the lower part of the border].
(2)	Another state, probably the later: [within the same com
partment and having the same imprint as the above] A View |
Of The State j Of ] Ireland, j Written dialogue-wise betweene |
Eudoxus and Irenaeus, | By Edmund Spenser Esq. | in the yeare
1596. I [rule] | Whereunto is added the History | of Ireland, |
By Edmund Campion, | sometime fellow of S* Iohn’s | Colledge
in Oxford. | Published by Sir lames Ware | Knight.
This state differs from (1) only in that the ornament of (1) is here replaced
by the rule and the additional printed matter, ' Whereunto . . . Knight/,
linking Spenser's work with Campion’s.
B.	Other title-pages in the volume.
(3)	To Campion’s and Hanmer’s Histories: [within the same
compartment as the Spenser title-pages described above] Two j
Histories | Of | Ireland. | [double rule] [ The one written by
Edmund | Campion, the other by | Meredith Hanmer | Dr of
Divinity, j [ornamental band] | Dublin, | Printed by the Society
of I Stationers. | M. DC. XXXIII. [the imprint is set in the panel
in the lower part of the border].
(4)	General title-page: [within a single rule border] The | His-
torie I of I Ireland, | Collected | By Three Learned Authors | Viz. |
Meredith Hanmer | Doctor in Divinitie: | Edmund Campion |
sometime Fellow of S* Johns | Colledge in Oxford:	and | Ed-
mund Spenser | Esq. | [ornamental band] | [rule] Dublin, |
Printed by the Societie of Stationers, Printers to the | Kings most
Excellent Majestie. 1633.
This title-page was undoubtedly printed later and intended to cancel (3), although
in some copies it is found merely inserted before (3) or (2). In some copies
with this title-page there is a single folio sheet of two leaves, signed *2 on the
first leaf, immediately after the title, containing a dedication to Lord Wentworth
signed ' Matthew Manwaring.’ In these copies Ware’s dedication of the TwoA CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF
Histories to Lord Wentworth and his Preface are also cancelled, and Hanmer’s
section bound before Campion’s. See Note 1 below for a further discussion of
the various states and issues of this volume.
Format and Collation: Folio: fl4, A-K6, k4, L4 [Spenser section]; fl8,
A-L6, M4 [Campion section]; Aa-Ss6, Tt4 [Hanmer section]; 72 -f-
76 -|- 112 leaves = 260 leaves.
The sections are found bound in a different order in different copies; the 4
leaves of signature k in the Spenser section, containing Ware’s Annotations are
not present in all copies. See Note 1 below. First 3 leaves of each gathering
are signed, except title-pages and L3 [Spenser], M3 [Campion], and Tt3 [Han-
mer]. Bb2 and Bb3 are misprinted B2 and B3.
Pagination: Each section is paged separately. Spenser section: Commenc-
ing with Alr, pages numbered 1 to 127, followed by 9 unnumbered
pages. Campion section: Commencing on Alr, pages numbered 1 to
138. Hanmer section: Commencing on Aalr, pages numbered 1 to 222
[146 misprinted 158 and 220 to 222 misprinted 221 to 223].
Contents: Spenser section:	[fl lr], Title, either (1) or (2) above;
[j[ lv], blank; 2r-fl 2V, Dedicatory epistle to Thomas, Lord Viscount
Wentworth, signed lames Ware; H 3r-[j[ 4r], The Preface, [by Sir
James Ware] ; [ft4v], blank; Alr-[K6r], the text of A View Of The
State of Ireland', [K6V], Faults escaped.; klr-[k4r], Annotations.;
[k4v], blank; Llr-[L4V], Certaine verses of Mr Edm. Spenser’s.
Marginal notes by Ware are printed commencing with page 40. The 4 leaves of
Annotations were added later to supply the notes for the first 40 pages. These 4
leaves were not printed until the rest of the book had been completed, and they
are not present in some copies.
Campion section: [fl lr], Title, No. (3) above; [fl lv], blank; 2r-
2V, Dedicatory epistle to Thomas, Lord Viscount Wentworth, signed
lames Ware; j[ 3r-j[ 3V, The Preface To The Subsequent Histories, [by
Sir James Ware] ; [ff 4r]-[fl 5r], Campion’s dedication to Robert Dudley,
Baron of Denbigh, dated From Dublin 27. May, 1571.; [fl 5v]-[fl 6r],
Campion’s preface To the loving Reader; [|[ 6V], blank; Alr-[M3V],
the text of Campion’s Historie of Ireland;	[M4r],	Faults escaped.;
[M4V], blank;
Hanmer section: Aalr, Head-title, The Chronicle Of Ireland: Col-
lected By Meredith Hanmer, Doctor of Diuinity. The second part., fol-
lowed, Aalr-Sslv, by the text of Hanmer’s Chronicle', Ss2r-[Tt3v],
Henry Marieburrough’s Chronicle Of Ireland.; [Tt4], blank leaf.
Marginal notes are printed throughout both the Campion and the Hanmer sections.
In copies where the general title-page, (4), is present, it is found printed
on a single folio leaf, unsigned, and usually cancels title-page (3). It
may have been considered by the printer as *1, for the first leaf of Man-
waring’s cancel dedication, in copies where it appears, is signed *2. This
dedication occupies the four pages of a single folio sheet, *2r-[*3v].
Running-titles: Spenser section: fl3v-^ 4r, The Preface.; Alv-[K6r],
Edm. Spenser’s View | of the state of Ireland.; klv-[k4r], Annotations.;
Llr—[L4V], Certaine verses of Mr Edm. Spenser’s.THE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER
51
Campion section: j[ 2V, The Epistle Dedicatory3V, The Preface.;
[1i 4v]-[^[ 5r], Epistle Dedicatory.; [j[ 6r], To the Reader.; Alv—
[M3V], Campion’s Historie | of Ireland.;
Hanmer section: Aalv—Sslv,	Doctor Hanmers	Chronicle |	of	Ireland.;
Ss2v-[Tt3v], Henry Marleburrough’s Chronicle	\	of Ireland.
All running-titles are set between	horizontal rules,	with page numbers,	where
present, near the outer margin.
Entry in Stationer’s Register: xiiijto Aprilis [1598]
Mathewe Entred for his Copie vnder th[e] hand of master Warden man / a booke
Lownes / intituled A vie we of the present state of Ireland. Discoursed by waye of
a Dialogue betwene Eudoxus and Irenius. vppon Condicion that hee gett
further aucthoritie before yt be prynted . . . vjd
[Arber, III, 111.]
Although Matthew Lownes entered this work in the Stationer’s Register, he never
printed it, probably because he was unable to obtain the necessary authority.
Copies used: Two copies in the Tudor and Stuart Club; the copy of Spen-
ser’s View with state (1) of the title-page belonging to Mr. C. H.
Pfrozheimer; the copy in the Library of Congress with title (4) and
Manwaring’s cancel dedication, and the Hagen—Clawson copy now in the
Harvard University Library.
Other copies: PFOR.; RPH.; *HN. (3 copies: Nos. 46032, 28118 and
79469-70) ; *N.; *L. (3 copies: 601. 1. 1., G. 5800 and 185. b. 4) ;
*0. (3 copies: Wood 406, Douce H. subt. 13. and AA. 38. Art. Seld.) ;
*M.; *C. (8 copies: Hib. 4. 63. 1. to Hib. 4. 63. 7. and R. 3. 49.) ; *C2.
Notes: 1. This work of Spenser’s was first printed by Sir James Ware in 1633, from
a manuscript found in the library of Archbishop Ussher. In the same year Ware
published the volume containing the Two Histories of Ireland, by Edmund Cam-
pion and Meredith Hanmer. Whether the Spenser volume or the Campion-Hanmer
volume was printed first is not certain. It has usually been assumed that the
latter was the first to be printed. I believe, however, that it is equally probable
that Spenser’s View of the State of Ireland was printed first, particularly because
the wording in the second state of the Spenser title-page mentions only Campion’s
Historie, and it seems likely that both Campion and Hanmer would have been
mentioned had the Two Histories volume been already in print. Perhaps Ware
had Campion’s work ready for the press about the time that the printing of
Spenser’s View was completed, and then, shortly afterwards, decided to add Han-
mer’s Chronicle to the volume, and had the title-page printed &s Two Histories
of Ireland. This title-page is described above as number (3).
In either case, it seems certain that Spenser’s work was originally intended to be
issued separately, with the title-page numbered (1) in the above descriptions. After
the printing had been completed, (except for the four leaves of Annotations, which
were not added until much later), and while the preliminary leaves containing
the title and dedication were going through the press, Ware suddenly decided to
link this work of Spenser’s with Campion’s history and issue the two in a single
volume. He therefore had the Spenser title-page changed by removing the ornament
and adding the words, " Whereunto is added the History of Ireland, By Edmund
Campion, sometime fellow of S4 Iohn’s Colledge in Oxford. Published by Sir
lames Ware Knight.” By this second state of the title-page, numbered (2) above,
Spenser's View is linked with the other works, and it is usually found bound with
them in a single volume, although there are several copies in existence of Spenser’s
work bound separately. In his preface to Spenser’s View Ware mentions that heA CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF
had not decided to add marginal notes until over one-fourth of the work was
already in print. These marginal notes do not begin until page 40. Some time
later, after the printing of all three of the linked works had been completed, Ware
had the notes for the first 40 pages of the View printed on a gathering of four
leaves, to which the signature ’ k * was assigned. These four leaves of Annotations
were inserted between [K6] and Ll in copies of the View issued thereafter.
At a later period Matthew Manwaring, Hanmer’s son-in-law, dissatisfied with
the apparently inferior position assigned to his father-in-law’s work as compared
with Campion’s, arranged to have the general title-page printed that is described
above as number (4). This title-page placed Hanmer’s name first and was intended
to cancel title-page (3). Manwaring, no doubt, was particularly incensed at the
greater prominence given to Campion by Ware because Meredith Hanmer had been
the author of perhaps the most important of the Protestant attacks upon Campion's
Decent Rationes, having published in 1581 a quarto pamphlet entitled, The great
bragge and challenge of M. Champion, a lesuite . . . aunswered by Meredith
Hanmetj M. of Art and student in Diuinitie. This Matthew Manwaring was
probably a kinsman of Sir Philip Mainwaring who in 1634 became secretary to
Lord Wentworth, the Deputy General for Ireland. As Sir James Ware also held
office under Wentworth, the substitution of this cancel title-page in the later issues
of Ware’s volume of Irish histories was no doubt amicably arranged with Ware’s
full knowledge and consent. This cancel title-page was printed on a single leaf.
In a very few copies a folio sheet of two leaves, containing a dedication to Lord
Wentworth signed by Matthew Manwaring, is also found, cancelling Ware’s dedi-
cation and preface to the Two Histories. In such copies both the Two Histories
and the Spenser title-pages have been cancelled. In most copies, however, issued
after this cancel title-page had been printed, Ware’s dedication is retained and the
new title, (4), cancels the title to the Two Histories, (3), the Spenser title-page
being retained. Some copies are found in which the title, (4), has merely been
inserted at the beginning of the volume.
We may thus distinguish several different issues of Spenser’s View of the State
of Ireland and of the volume of Ware’s Histories in which it usually appears.
These are classified below and the copies of each class which have been checked
in this survey are noted.
a.	The earliest issue of Spenser’s View, with the title-page (1). Copies: PFOR.,
*M., *C. (2 copies, Hib. 4. 63. 1. and Hib. 4. 63. 2.). None of these copies
have the four leaves of Annotations. The *M. copy has the Two Histories section
bound after the Spenser section, while *C. (Hib. 4. 63. 1.) has the Two Histories
bound before Spenser. The two other copies contain only Spenser’s View.
b.	The second issue of Spenser’s View, with title-page (2), but without the
four leaves of Annotations. Copies: HN. (46032), *C. (Hib. 4. 63. 5.) and *N.
The first two of these contain only Spenser’s View; the *N. copy has the Two
Histories following the Spenser section and has the general title-page, (4), in-
serted at the beginning, before the Spenser title.
c.	The third issue of Spenser’s View, with title (2), and with the four leaves
of Annotations} bound with the Two Histories, first issue. Copies: TS. (2 copies),
*0. (2 copies, Wood 406 and AA. 38. Art. Seld.), *L. (185. b. 4.), HN. (Huth
copy, 79469-70), *C. (2 copies, Hib. 4. 63. 3. and Hib. 4. 63. 4.), *C2. (Grylls.
23- 125.)* Of these copies, TS. (copy 1) and *C. (Hib. 4. 63. 4.) have the
Spenser section bound first. In all the others Spenser’s View is bound after the
Two Histories.
d.	A new issue of the whole volume, with the title-page, (3), and Ware’s
dedication and preface to the Two Histories cancelled by the new general title-
page, (4), and by a new dedication signed by Matthew Manwaring, and with the
works bound in the following order: Hanmer’s Chronicle, with Marleburrough's
continuation; Campion’s Historie\ Spenser’s View, with the four leaves of Anno-
tations. Copies: WASH, and *C. (Hib. 4. 63. 6.). In both of these copies, the
title-page to Spenser’s View has also been removed, but no new title inserted inTHE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER
53
its place. In the *C. copy the three leaves, [ff 4] to [ff6], containing Campion’s
dedication and preface, are bound immediately after the cancel title and dedication,
and before the beginning of the text of Hanmer’s Chronicle. In the WASH, copy,
[which was sold by the British Museum as a ** duplicate ” in 1818], these three
leaves appear just before the beginning of Campion's text, and immediately after
the last leaf, [Tt3], of the text of the Hanmer section, the blank leaf, [Tt4],
being absent from that copy.
e.	Later issues of the entire volume, with the cancel title-page, (4), but retaining
Ware’s dedication and preface to the Two Histories. Copies: HD. [Hagen-J. L.
Clawson copy], RPH., HN. (28118), *0. (Douce H. subt. 13.), *C. (2 copies,
Hib. 4. 63. 7. and R. 3. 49.). In all these copies the title (4) cancels title (3)
to the Two Histories and the sections are bound in the order Campion-Hanmer-
Spenser. Spenser’s View has title ( 2) and contains the four leaves of Annotations.
The **HAIGH. copy agrees with the six copies just noted, except that title (3)
has been retained and title (4) inserted immediately before it, at the beginning
of the volume. The *L. (601. 1. 1.) copy has the Spenser section preceding Cam-
pion and Hanmer, with title (4) inserted at the beginning, just before the Spenser
title, (2), and the Two Histories title. (3), is cancelled. This arrangement may be
due to the order having been changed when the copy was last bound. The *L.
(G. 5800) copy has the sections bound in the order Hanmer-Campion-Spenser
(with Annotations'), Title-page (4) appears at the beginning of the volume, and
(3) and (2) are both retained and occur at their proper places.
[Dr. George Watson Cole, in his article, “ Bibliographical	Pitfalls—Linked
Books,” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America,, XVIII (1924), pp. 22-
29, discusses briefly the problem of the various issues of this book. His conclu-
sions, on the whole, are the same as those I have just outlined, except for his
assumption that the Two Histories volume was necessarily in print before Spenser’s
View, and for the more involved classification he gives of the early issues of
Spenser’s work with the title-page (1). In the latter instance Dr. Cole was led
by an error in Sayle’s catalogue, Early English printed books in the University
Library, Cambridge, to assume that the copies Hib. 4. 63. 1. and Hib. 4. 63. 2.
both possessed the four leaves of Annotations to Spenser’s View, whereas, in fact,
these four leaves do not occur in either of these copies.]
2.	There are a great many manuscript copies of Spenser’s View of the State of
Ireland in existence, most, if not all, of them antedating this first printed edition
of the work issued in 1633. The manuscript which Matthew Lownes submitted
for entry in the Stationer’s Register in 1598 is now in the Bodleian Library, MS
Rawlinson B. 478. Archbishop Ussher’s manuscript, from which Ware’s edition
of 1633 was printed, is preserved in the library of Trinity College, Dublin, MS.
E. 3. 26. Among the other existing manuscripts of Spenser’s View are the fol-
lowing: Bodleian Library, MS. Gough. Ireland. 2.; British Museum, MSS Har-
leian 1932 and 7388; British Museum, Additional MS 22,022; University Library,
Cambridge, MSS Dd. x. 60. and Dd. xiv. 28; Gonville and Caius College, Cam-
bridge, MS 188. (221.) ; State Papers, Ireland, Vol. 202, part 4, No. 58; Lambeth
Palace Library, MS 510.; a MS, with bookplates of Richard Townley and William
Horatio Crawford, formerly belonging to the late Sir Israel Gollancz,	now	in	the
possession of the Rosenbach Company in New York.
21	THE	FOLIO EDITION OF THE WORKS	1679
Title:	[within a double rule border] The | Works | Of that | Famous
English | Poet, j Mr. Edmond Spenser. | (The Faery Queen, [ Viz. (The
Shepherds Calendar, j (The History of Ireland, Sec. | [rule] | Where-
unto is added, | An Account of his Life; | With other new Additions j54	A	CRITICAL	BIBLIOGRAPHY	OF
Never before in Print. | [rule] Licensed, October 24th, 1678. Roger
L’Estrange. | [rule] j London:	Printed by Henry Hills for Jonathan
Edwin, at the | Three Roses in Ludgate-street. 1679. [the title-page is
printed in red and black; the words in red are underlined in this
transcript].
*	The poems listed below have separate title-pages. Those in the first group
bear the imprint: ' London, | Printed by Henry Hills for Jonathan Edwin, at the
Three | Roses in Ludgate-street. 1678.’ The imprint on the title-pages in the
second group has a colon instead of a comma after ' London.’
The Second Part of the Fairy Queen, on [Z4r]; Prosopopoia: Or, Mother Hubberds
Tale, on [Xx3r]; The Shepherds Calendar, on [Zz3r]; Prothalamion, on [Kkk3r];
Epithalamion, on [Nnnlr] ; Daphnaida, on [Ppp4r] ; Complaints, on [Rrrl*].
Colin Clouts Come home again, on [Ggg2r]; Amoretti and Epithalamion, on [Llllr];
Four Hymns, on [Nnn4r]; The Tears of the Muses, on [Sss3r]; Muiopotmos, on
[Xxx4r],
Collation: [tt]2, A-Z4, Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Zzz4, Aaa4 [repeated, but probably an error
for Aaaa], Bbbb-Iiii4, Kkkk2, Aaaaa-Ccccc4; 328 leaves.
The first 2 leaves of each gathering are signed, except the title-pages and Xx2 and Kkkk2.
Kkl is signed ' K ’ instead of Kk, and Nnl is similarly signed ’ N.’
Pagination: The page numbering is very confused. Commencing with Blr, it runs
l-[340], [1]—16, 4 leaves unpaged, [l]-258 [omitting nos. 5 to 8], 1 unpaged
leaf, 369-[392].
Errors in pagination: 1st series: 13 for 12; 14 for 13; 132 for 140; 133 for 141;
284 for 276; 258 for 277; 238 for 338. 3rd series: 10 for 3; 11 for 4; 9 for 5 [this
omission of nos. 5 to 8 causing the remaining numbers of the series to be 4 greater than
they should be]; 10 for 12 [8]; 11 for 13 [9l; 153 for 53 [491; 97 for 105
[101]; 104 for 112 [108]; 108 for 116 [112]; 109 for 117 [113]; 387 for 389.
The lacuna in the pagination of the 3rd series between p. 258 and p. 369 is readily
explained. If the 4th series of signatures had been continued from Kkkkl (pp. 257 and
258) through Zzzz4, then the first page of the following series, Aaaaalr, would properly
be numbered 369. It seems obvious that Bathurst’s Calendarium Pastorale was printed
separately with a new series of signatures and included in the volume as an afterthought,
and that the compositor calculated his pagination on the basis of the preceding series
being completed. The catchword on KkkklT (p. 258) is * Calen-’ which indicates that
the Calendarium Pastorale was intended to follow immediately after this page. The
leaf [Kkkk2], containing on its recto A Catalogue of some Books, Printed for, and Sold
by Jonathan Edwin . . . was intended to be cut out and inserted at the end of the volume
and is so found in some copies.
Contents: [■7rlr], blank; [7rlv], Engraving of Spenser’s tomb, by R. White; [«■ 2r]>
Title; [tt2v], blank; Alr-[A4V], A Summary of the Life of Mr. Edmond
Spencer, followed by excerpts from the Spenser—Harvey letters; Blr-[Z3r],
The first part (Books I to III) of The Fairy Queen;	[Z3V], Commendatory
verses, the same as in the previous folio editions; [Z4r]-[Xx2r], The second
part (Books IV to VII) of The Fairy Queen; [Xx2v], blank; [Xx3r]-Zz2v,
Mother Hubberds Tale; [Zz3r]-Ggglr, The Shepherds Calendar; Ggglv, blank;
[Ggg2r]-Kkk2v, Colin Clouts Come home again, Astrophel, etc.; [Kkk3r]-
[Kkk4v], Prothalamion; [Llllr]-[Mmm4v], Amoretti [with title-page, Amo-
retti and Epithalamion] ; [Nnnlr]-[Nnn3v], Epithalamion; [Nnn4r]-[Ppp3v],THE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER
55
Four Hymns\ [Ppp4r]-[Qqq4v], Daphnaida; [Rrrlr]-[Zzz4v], Complaints
[with the same poems, printed in the same order as in the preceding folio edi-
tions, and separate title-pages for The Tears of the Muses and Muiopotmos~\ ;
Aaalr [repeated]-Bbbblr, The letter to Raleigh, the commendatory poems and
dedicatory sonnets; Bbbblv-[Bbbb4v], Brittain’s Ida; Cccclr-Kkkklv, A View
Of the State Of Ireland', [Kkkk2r], A Catalogue of Some Books, Printed for,
and Sold by Jonathan Edwin . . . [this leaf is cut out and bound at the end
in some copies] ; [Kkkk2v], blank; Aaaaalr-[Ccccc4r], Calendarium Pastorale
[Theodore Bathurst’s Latin translation only] ; [Ccccc4r]-[Ccccc4v], A Glossary.
The poems are printed in double columns throughout; the other matter is printed in
single column.
Running-titles: There is a different running-title for each work, corresponding in
general to the title of the work. As in the preceding editions, The Fairy Queen
has a different running-title for each book, and the Shepherds Calendar has a
separate one for each month. The running-title for the Amoretti is ' Sonnets.’
The running-title to the Prothalamion is incorrectly printed * Colin Clouts come
home again.’
Entries in Stationers’ Register: There is no entry of this edition in the Stationers’
Register. The title-page states that it was licensed by Roger L’Estrange on Octo-
ber 24th, 1678. It is listed in the Term Catalogues for Michaelmas Term, 1678,
under the heading of 'Books Reprinted.’ [See Arber’s edition of the Term
Catalogues, I, 335.] Whether Jonathan Edwin made any arrangements with the
owners of the copyrights to Spenser’s works, or reprinted them without their
consents, is not known. In the Stationers’ Register the only two entries of
Spenser’s works after 1630 that I have been able to find are the following:
1.	22°	Julij	1644
Entred ... by order of a full Cort of Assistants, holden the twelveth
day of August, A° 1643, All these copies and parts of copies hereafter
particularly expressed, the wch apperteyned to Mr Robte Young, his late
father deceased (Salvo iure cuiuscunque) iij11 vs
The fairy Queene by Spencer.
................................................[Plomer, I, 122-26.]
The 28^ of Aprill 1660
Entred ... by vertue of an assignment under the hand and seale of
Martha Harrison widdow, executrix of the last will & Testament of John
Harrison deced & under the hand of John Harrison junr, all the copies
and parts of copies hereafter mentioned, the wch did formerly belong
unto ye said John Harrison deced Salvo iure cuiuscunque, viz4
Spencer’s Shephards Calendar.
To wch assignmt the hand of Master Thrale warden is subscribed.
[Plomer, II, 261-62.]	,
[John Harrison, Martha’s husband, was John Harrison IV, the son and succes-
sor of the John Harrison II, (the younger), who published the 1581 and sub-
sequent editions of the Shepheardes Calender. John Harrison IV died about
the year 1653.]
Master James
Young.
2.
Master
William Lee56	A	CRITICAL	BIBLIOGRAPHY	OF
Copy used: Tudor and Stuart Club copy.
Other copies: JHU; WASH; BO; RPH. Copies are to be found in numerous
university and public libraries throughout America and Great Britain.
Notes: 1. The greater part of this edition was printed from a copy of the 1611-1617
Folio, with the text of the View of the State of Ireland\ Brittain’s Ida and the Calendarium
Pastorale being supplied from copies of the original editions of those works. Some
casual reference seems to have been made, however, to copies of earlier editions of Spenser's
poems. The dedicatory sonnets to Lady Carew and To all the Gracious and Beautiful
Ladies in the Court} which had not appeared in any edition since the 1590 Faerie Queene,
were supplied from a copy of that edition. However, the stanza of the June eclogue of
the Shepheardes Calender, omitted from the 1597 and all subsequent editions, is not
restored to its proper place, but is appended as a note to Bathurst's Latin translation in
the same form in which it appeared in the 1653 edition of that work. Who edited this
1679 Folio of Spenser's works is not known. No evidence whatever has been found to
support the suggestion made by Sir Sidney Lee and Professor J. W. Hales in their article
on Spenser in the Dictionary of National Biography that this edition " is believed to
have been partly edited by Dryden.” This idea may have originated from a casual exami-
nation of Dryden's annotated copy of this 1679 Folio now in the library of Trinity Col-
lege, Cambridge. Actually this copy, (Adv. a—I—4.), furnishes definite evidence that
this edition was not edited by Dryden. On the blank front page, over the signature of
J. Tonson, is the following manuscript note: " The corrections made in this Book are
of Mr. Drydens own handwriting." A study of the manuscript corrections in the Faerie
Queene section of the volume reveals that they were made with no reference whatever
to any previous edition. Where the context clearly indicates the proper correction for
obvious misprints in this 1679 edition, Dryden's corrections agree with the readings of
the earlier editions. In all other cases Dryden's alterations are inventions of his own,
lacking any authority from previous texts. Two examples will suffice to illustrate the
nature of Dryden's conjectural emendations of the 1679 text In Book II. 5. 9. 9. the
1679 edition prints * t'allude' where all previous editions have * t'illude.' Dryden alters
this to * t'allure.' At Book II. 8. 24. 2. the 1679 and all previous editions read * Knight? *
Dryden changes this to "night?' It is quite possible, of course, that a new edition of
Spenser, to be edited by Dryden and published by Tonson, was at one time considered
and that this was the reason for Dryden's annotation of the 1679 text. We may safely
say, however, that Dryden had nothing whatever to do with the editing of the 1679 edition.
[For my information concerning Dryden's annotations in his copy of the 1679 Folio, I
am indebted to the notes kindly furnished by Professor Roswell G. Ham to the editors
of the new Variorum Spenser.]
2.	The incorrect dates of Spenser's birth and death appearing in the inscription on his
tombstone were due to a mistake on the part of Nicholas Stone, who carved the monu-
ment about the year 1620. It was erected at the expense of Ann Clifford, Countess of
Dorset, not the Earl of Essex, as stated on the engraved frontispiece to this edition. The
author of the short life of Spenser accepts these erroneous dates without question. In
1778, as the result of a subscription raised at Cambridge by the poet William Mason,
the tomb was repaired and the English inscription recut with corrected dates. [See Dic-
tionary of National Biography, (1898), LIII, 393-94.]
3.	The Spenser-Harvey Letters, excerpts from which are subjoined to the brief life of
Spenser appearing at the beginning of this volume, had not, so far as we know, been
reprinted since their original publication by Henry Bynneman in 1580.THE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER
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22	BOOKS CONTAINING COMMENDATORY SONNETS BY
SPENSER
A.	Foure Letters, and certaine Sonnets: Especially touching Robert Greene,
and other parties, by him abused: But incidently of diuers excellent
persons, and some matters of note. To all courteous mindes, that will
voutchsafe the reading, [device of John Wolfe (McKerrow No. 226) ]
London Imprinted by Iohn Wolfe, 1592.
Quarto: A—I4, K2.
On [K2r], (page 75), appears the sonnet, To the right worship full, my
singular good jrend, M. Gabrieli Haruey, Doctor of the Lawes, dated and
signed Dublin: this xviij. of Iuly: 1586. Your deuoted jrend, during life,
Edmund Spencer. This sonnet concludes the volume.
Copy used: The former W. A. White copy, now in the Harvard University
Library.
Other copies: RPH.; **HN. (2 copies) ; **L.; **0.
B.	Nennio, Or A Treatise of Nobility: Wherein is discoursed what true
Nobilitie is, with such qualities as are required in a perfect Gentleman.
Written in Italian by that famous Doctor and worthy knight Sir Iohn
Baptista Nenna of Bari. Done into English by William Iones Gent,
[device of Peter Short (McKerrow No. 278)] Printed by P. S. for
Paule Linley, and Iohn Flasket, and are to be sold at their shop in
Paules churchyard, at the Signe of the black Beare, 1595.
Quarto: A4, ff2, B-Y4, Aa-Cc4, Dd2.
On lr appears the complimentary sonnet to the translator, beginning, ' Who
so wil seeke by right deserts t’attaine’ and signed Ed. Spenser. It appears as
the first of four sonnets prefixed to the volume, the others being by Samuel
Daniel, George Chapman and Angel Day. The book was dedicated to the Earl
of Essex.
Copy used: The former W. A. White copy, now in the possession of the
Rosenbach Company in New York. [This copy formerly belonged to James
Stanley, Lord Strange and seventh Earl of Derby.]
Other copies: RPH.; **HN.; **L.; **C.
C.	The Historie of George Castriot, surnamed Scanderbeg, King of Al-
banie. Containing his famous actes, his noble deedes of Armes, and
memorable victories against the Turkes, for the Faith of Christ. Com-
prised in t^elue Bookes: By Iaques de Lavardin, Lord of Plessis Bour-
rot, a Nobleman of France. Newly translated out of French into58	A	CRITICAL	BIBLIOGRAPHY	OF
English by Z. I. Gentleman, [device of Richard Field (McKerrow
No. 170)] London, Imprinted for William Ponsonby. 1596.
Folio:	8,	A-Z6,	Aa-Vv6.
On [fl 8r] appears the sonnet Vpon the Historie of George C as trio t, Alias
Scanderbeg, King of the Epirots, translated into English, signed Ed. Spenser.
It is the first commendatory sonnet in the volume.
Copy used: New York Public Library copy.
Other copies: **HN.; **L.; **0.; **C.; *HH.
D.	The Commonwealth and Gouernment of Venice. Written by the
Cardinall Gasper Contareno, and translated out of Italian into English,
by Lewes Lewkenor Esquire. Nel piu bel vedere cieco. With sundry
other Collections, annexed by the Translator for the more cleere and
exact satisfaction of the Reader. With a short Chronicle in the end,
of the liues and raignes of the Venetian Dukes, from the very begin-
ninges of their Citie. [ornament of a mask with rings] London Im-
printed by Iohn Windet for Edmund Mattes, and are to be sold at his
shop, at the signe of the Hand and Plow in Fleetstreet. 1599-
Quarto: # 4, A-Z4, Aa-Gg4.
On # 3V appears the complimentary sonnet to Lewkenor beginning, ' The
antique Babel, Empresse of the East,’ signed Edw. Spencer. It is the first com-
mendatory sonnet in the volume.
Copy used: The H. V. Jones—W. A. White copy, now in the possession
of the Rosenbach Company in New York.
Other copies: **HN.; **N.; **L.; **0.; **C.; **D2.THE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER
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23	AXIOCHUS [translated by Edw. Spenser, probably the poet] 1592
Title: Axiochus. | A most excellent Dialogue, | written in Greeke by
Plato the Phy- | losopher: concerning the shortnesse and vncer- | tainty
of this life, with the contrary ends of | the good and wicked. | (•/) j
Translated out of Greeke by | Edw. Spenser. | Heereto is annexed a
sweet speech or Oration, | spoken at the Tryumphe at White-hall before
her | Maiestie, by the page to the right noble Earle | of Oxenforde. |
[device of Cuthbert Burby (McKerrow No. 297)] | At London, |
Printed for Cuthbert Burbie, and are | to be sold at the middle shop in
the Poultry, | vnder S. Mildreds Church. | Anno. 1592.
Format and Collation: Quarto: ][4, A-B4, C3 [fl 1, probably blank, is missing];
14 leaves actually present.
First 3 leaves of each gathering signed, except 1 [missing] and If 2.
Pagination: None.
Contents: [fl 1], missing, perhaps blank; [j[ 2r], Title; [j[ 2V], blank; 3r-fl 3V,
Dedicatory episde [Burby’s?] To the Right Worship full Maister Benedic Bar-
nam, Esquire, Aldermann and Sheriffe of this honorable Citty of London: health
and happinesse.\ [fl 4r], To the Reader; [j[ 4V], blank; Alr—C3V, the text of
Axiochus of Plato, or a Dialogue of Death, being both short and very Elegant.
[The second item in the volume, referred to in the title-page, is missing].
Running-titles:	3V, The Epistle; Alv-C3v, Axiochus.
Entry in Stationers’ Register: Primo Maij [1592]
Cutberd Burbee / Entred for his Copie vnder the hande of master watkins Axiochus of
Plato vjd
[Arber, II, 610.]
Copy used: The copy, probably unique, belonging to Professor Frederick Morgan
Padelford. This copy is inlaid on 14 leaves bound at the end of a copy of the
1679 Folio. [The description of this copy is based upon an examination of
photostats, supplemented by information supplied through the courtesy of the
Notes: 1. In the preface To the Reader the publisher definitely ascribes this translation
of the Axiochus to the poet Spenser, although he gives his name as Edward Spenser, a
not uncommon error. Whether this work is to have an undisputed place in the Spenser
canon remains to be determined. Professor Padelford is now preparing an edition of
the Axiochus, in which the text of the original edition of 1592 will be reprinted for the
first time. This volume will appear within a few months, and will place the results of
his study at the disposal of all Spenser scholars. A number of considerations make it
seem highly probable that this translation is a genuine work of Spenser’s.
2.	The existence of this translation of the Axiochus ascribed to the poet Spenser seems
to have been well known in the 18th Century, but since the end of that century no editor
of Spenser has been able to locate a copy until the present copy was discovered not long
ago inlaid in a copy of the 1679 Folio. This work is listed in the catalogue of the60	A	CRITICAL	BIBLIOGRAPHY	OF
Harleian Library as: ' Dialogue concerning the Shortnesse and Uncertainty of this Life,
by Plato, translated by Edw. Spenser . . . 1592 ’ [Catalogus Bibliothecce Harleiance, (Lon-
don, 1743-45), III, 365, No. 6218.] Upton, in the introduction to his edition of the
Faerie Queene in 1758, page ix, promises to include the Axiochus in his proposed third
volume, along with the minor poems and the View of Ireland, but this volume was never
issued. William Herbert, in his edition of Ames’ Typographical Antiquities, (London,
1785-90), lists in Volume III, page 1512, under the heading of books printed in Scot-
land: ' 1592. Plato's Axiochus: on the shortness and uncertainty of life. Quarto.’ As
no further information is given, Herbert apparently had not examined the volume him-
self, and his assigning the printing of it to Scotland may be an error, although it is
possible that a different edition of the Axiochus was printed in Edinburgh in the same
year. Subsequent references seem to be based upon those in the Harleian catalogue and
in Herbert, rather than an independent examination of the book itself. In 1805, Todd,
in the introduction to his edition of Spenser [I, clxxii-clxxiii] states that he would have
included the Axiochus in his edition but was unable to locate a copy of it. No Spenser
scholar since Todd seems to have had any better success until the present copy was
discovered.
3.	Other English translations of the Axiochus were published in the 16th and early
17th centuries. The one included in Philippe de Mornay’s Six excellent treatises of life
and death, published by Matthew Lownes in 1607, copies of which are to be found in the
British Museum and Newberry Libraries, is an entirely different translation.THE WORKS OF EDMUND SPENSER
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NOTES ON SOME SPENSER APOCRYPHA
A.	The following volume of English chronicles written in Latin by ” E. S.” has
often been ascribed to the poet Edmund Spenser: De Rebus Gestis Britannia
Commentarioli Tres. 12°. ex. off. H. Binneman [1582?]. [STC No.
21488; copies in N., L., and C.].
In The Manly Anniversary Studies, (Chicago, 1923), pp. 64-69, F. I. Car-
penter discusses the evidence for Spenser’s authorship of this book. He decides
that although it may possibly be the work of the poet, the evidence is incon-
clusive.
B.	Spenser has been suggested as the author of the commendatory sonnet, signed,
" E. S.,” prefixed to Henry Peacham’s Minerva Britanna Or a Garden of Hero-
ical Deuises, 4°. W. Dight. 1612. [5TC No. 19511; copies in RNY., HN.,
CH., L., O., C, HH.] This sonnet is entitled To Master Henry Peacham. A
Vision vpon this his Minerva., and appears on [B4r]. It is remarkably Spen-
serian in style, and this and the identity of the initials are the grounds for
claiming Spenser as the author. On the other hand, it is printed in a book first
issued thirteen years after the poet’s death, whose author was only 23 years old
and had just completed his M. A. at Cambridge in 1599. These facts argue very
strongly against the theory of Spenser’s authorship of this sonnet.
C.	In 1628 Thomas Walkley published a poem in six short cantos entitled Brittain’s
Ida. Written by that Renowned Poet, Edmond Spencer. On the strength of the
publisher’s claim that Spenser was the author, the poem was reprinted in the
1679 Folio. Most later editors up to the time of Grosart included it, although
generally expressing their doubt as to Spenser’s authorship. It is now definitely
assigned to Phineas Fletcher. [See the letter by Ethel Seaton, " Phineas Flet-
cher—A new MS.”, London Times Literary Supplement, March 22, 1923, p.
199, and the reply by F. S. Boas, March 29, 1923, p. 216.]