works of that famous English poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser
Subtitle: viz. The faery queen, The shepherds calendar, The history of Ireland, &c. Whereunto is added an account of his life.  With other new additions never before in print.
Contributors: Bathurst, Theodore, d. 1651; Fletcher, Phineas, 1582-1650; Bland, T. D. (bookplate); Muirhead, Arnold (bookplate)
Publisher: Printed by H. Hills for J. Edwin
Published: 1679
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
Notes: Many of the pieces have special t.p. dated 1678.

"Brittain's Ida", first ascribed to Spenser in 1628 by Thomas Walkley, is now attributed to P. Fletcher.  Cf. L.C.

Wing S4965.

Errors in paging.

RBSC copy 1: With the book labels of T.D. Bland Esqr., Kippax Park, and of Arnold Muirhead.

RBSC copy 2:  With variant p. 258 (5th group)  Title page of the Prosopopoia bound between p. 238 [i.e. 338] and 339 of The fairy queen.
Table of contents: value: A summary of the life of Mr. Edmond Spenser.-  The fairy queen.- Two cantos of mutability.-  Prosopopoia; or, Mother Hubberds tale.-  The shepherds calendar.-  Colin Clouts come home again [etc.]-  Prothalamion; or, A spousal verse.-  Amoretti and Epithalamion.-  Four hymns.- Daphnaida; an elegy upon the death of ... Douglas Howard.-  Complaints containing sundry small poems of the worlds vanity.-  A letter of the authors ... to Sir Walter Raleigh [and commendatory poems]-  Brittain's Ida.-  A view of the state of Ireland.-  Calendarium pastorale ... nunc autem eleganti latino carmine donatae a Theodoro Bathurst.