Described in Stein, Harold. Studies in Spenser's Complaints. New York, 1934. p. [171]-172, [176]-179., Signatures: A-Z4 (Z4 blank and wanting)., The ruines of time -- The teares of the muses -- Virgils gnat -- Prosopopoia, or, Mother Hubberds tale -- Ruines of Romes / Bellay -- Mviopotmos, or, The fate of the butterflie -- Visions of the worlds vanitie -- The visions of Bellay -- The visions of Petrarch., and The tears of the muses, 1591 ; Prosopopoia, 1591 ; and Mviopotmos, 1590 have special title pages.
Publisher:
Imprinted for VVilliam Ponsonbie, dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Bishops head,
Eliz 221: Bound by Rivière in blue goatskin, gold tooling on cover and spine, gilt edges. Gift of Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911. and The first edition.
Publisher:
Imprinted for William Ponsonbie, dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Bishops Head
In cases 30 cm. "This edition ... is limited to one thousand copies for England and America, and twenty-seven on Japanese vellum ,twenty-five being for sale": on slip tipped in. Each volume with the bookplate of C.T. Patterson, except v. 9. Bound in paper covers. Vol. 9, with the book-plate of C.B. Tinker. and Issued in parts.
"Two cantos of mutabilitie" (p. 353-363) has running title: The seventh booke of the Faerie queene (in 2 instances misspelled 'seaventh')., A letter ... to Sir Walter Raleigh (23. Januarie. 1589) -- A vision upon this conceit of The Faerie queene -- The shepheards calender -- Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds tale (1613) -- Colin Clouts come home again -- The mourning muse of Thestylis -- A pastorall aeglogue upon the death of Sir Philip Sidney -- An elegie, or friends passion -- Protalamion or A spousall verse -- Amoretti and Epithalamion -- Epithalamion -- Foure hymnes -- Daphnaida. An elegie -- Complaints containing sundry small poemes of the worlds vanitie -- The tears of the muses -- Virgils gnat -- The ruines of Rome: by Bellay -- Muiopotmos, or The fate of the butterfly -- Visions of the worlds vanitie -- The visions of Bellay -- The visions of Petrarch., BEIN Z76 O75: Imperfect: title page mutilated, with some loss of text. Inscription at head of title: Roger Potts[?] ex dono ... 1647. Manuscript annotations throughout. Inscription at colophon: P.B. Wilcox, 1820. Stamps and binding of the Brothers in Unity at Yale. Some head- and tailpieces hand-colored., Dedication (t.p. verso) names the author as Edmund Spencer., First folio ed., Printer identified as Humphrey Lownes., Signatures: A-Y⁶ 2A-2H⁶ 2I⁴., Special t.p. reads: The second part of the Faerie Queene : containing the fourth, fift, and sixt booke / by Ed. Spenser. Imprinted at London : For Matthew Lownes, 1609., Variations in spelling of Faerie in 4th book canto 11-12 and 5th book Canto 10 through book seven, canto 7., and Woodcut head- and tailpieces; tailpieces with skeleton images; lion, dragon, putti, eagle and phoenix images on ornamental woodcut compartments. Page [364] has 1609 date with visible crack through block.
Publisher:
Printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes,
Subject (Name):
Lownes, Humphrey, -1629, printer, Lownes, Matthew, -1625, bookseller, Society of Brothers in Unity (Yale College), and Wilcox, P. B.--(Phineas Bacon),--1798-1863--Autograph
Subject (Topic):
Knights and knighthood.--(OCoLC)fst00988113, Knights and knighthood--Poetry--Early works to 1800, Virtues.--(OCoLC)fst01167724, and Virtues--Poetry--Early works to 1800
Copy belonging W.H. Ireland with his forged Shakespeare autographs and ms. annotations, and his tipped-in transcriptions of those annotations. Imperfect: lower portion of t.p. torn away with partial loss of title and imprint and, on verso, Spenser's name, in the dedication; "1590" written in ms. above "London" in imprint; some headlines, signature notations and catchwords shaved; some minor worming. Page 309 misnumbered 319, Welsh and English words in lines 4 and 5 of p. 332 supplied in ms. Cancellans Qq1-4 not present (hence, pagination is [2], 606). Two bookseller descriptions pasted in, one annotated to say that the book had been owned by Wm. Harrison, Esq., of [Saintsbury?] Hall, Lancashire, and sold by Sotheby's in 1881. Ms. annotations. Frontispiece of Edmund Spencer inserted. Armorial bookplates of Robert Lang and Francis Freeling, bookplates of William Berry and Henry Cunliffe., One of three variants of this edition. This one has dedication on title page verso signed 'Ed. Spenser'; first digit of imprint date is under the 'r' of 'for'., Printed by John Wolfe., Quire Qq is intended to cancel 2P6,7, but the latter are usually retained., Signatures: A-2P⁸ 2Q⁴., and The first edition of books I-III, with blank spaces left on p. 332; printer's device of John Wolfe with motto "Vbiqve floret" on t.p.
Eliz 222: Bound by Rivière in purple goatskin, gold tooling on cover and spine, gilt edges. Title page remargined. Qq⁴ in incorrectly bound in between Pp₇ and Pp₈. Gift of Alexander S. Cochran, December 1911. and The first edition, containing only books I-III, with an ending that Spenser changed when he added Books IV-VI.
Contents: [1] Beeing in passion, he writes a farewell to his hopes and successe in loue (First line: Dead are my hopes, which could not be releeued) / Ess. -- [2] Upon better aduise, he writeth an answere to the same (First line: Hopes are not dead, but sleepe, by beautie charmed) / Ess. --[3] Beeing wearie of life, in regard of his loues losse, he wrote as followeth (First line: Leave now deare life the prison of my minde) / Ess. -- [4] An answere imagined on his loues behalfe (First line: Leaue not your life, which libertie may finde / Ess. -- [5] His conclusion vpon both the former (First line: In such a life, no freedome can be found) / Ess. -- [6] To his fairest mistresse (First line: More then most fair, full of the louely fire) / H.W.S. -- [7] Of the fauour of the gods vnto men (First line: Oft haue I heard of stories long agoe) / S.P.S. -- [8] He writes a sonnet vpon his owne poe¨sie, vnder his armes (First line: Virtutis comes inuidia) / Ess. -- [9] As desirous to be his mystresses painter (First line: All things on earth, her fairenes farre excelles) / S.P.S. -- [10] Concering his suite and attendance at the court (First line: Most miserable man, whom wretched fate) / Edm. Spencer -- [11] The poore labouring bee (First line: It was a time, when sillie bees could speake).
Description:
An extract (gathering B4) from an unrecorded Elizabethan poetry collection entitled "The muses garland."