The 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, and account of his life ; with other new additions never before in print
By: Licensed October 24th 1678. Roger L'Estrange
Contributors: Bathurst, Theodore, -1651; Fletcher, Phineas, 1582-1650
Publisher: Printed by Henry Hills for Jonathan Edwin, at the Three Roses in Ludgate-street
Published: 1679
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 391
Work titles: Works
Notes: Signatures: leaf (t.-p.) unsigned. A-Z⁴. Aa-Zz⁴. Aaa-Zzz⁴. Aaaa-Iiii⁴ (Aaaa lettered Aaa). Kkkk¹. Aaaaa Ccccc⁴.

Frontispiece and title are mounted.

Most of the pieces have special title-pages dated 1678: Prosopopoia and The shepherds calendar have also separate paging.

The shepherds calendar has numerous errors in paging. A catalogue of books printed for Jonathan Edwin (1 leaf) inserted after p. 258.

"Brittain's Ida", first ascribed to Spenser in 1628 by Thomas Walkley, is now generally assigned to Phineas Fletcher.
Table of contents: title: A summary of the life of Mr. Edmond Spenser; title: The Fairy queen [books 1-3]; title: The second part of The Fairy queen [books 4-6]; title: Two cantos of mutability; title: Prosopopoia or, Mother Hubberds tale; title: The shepherds calendar; title: Cohn Clouts  come home again [etc.]; title: Prothalamion, or a spousal verse; title: Amoretti and Epithalamion; title: Four hymns; title: Daphnaida an elegy; title: Complaints containing sundry small poems of the worlds vanity. The ruines of time. The tears of the muses. Virgils gnat. The ruines of Rome, by Bellay. Muipotmos; title: Visions of the worlds vanity. The visions of Bellay. The visions of Petrarch. Letter of the author's. Vision upon the conceit of The Fairy queen; title: Brittain's Ida.  A view of the state of Ireland; title: Calendarium pastorale [Theodore Bathurst's Latin version of The shpeherd's calendar]; title: Glossary.