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SPENSER, EDMUND. The Faerie Queene: The Shepheards Calendar: Together with the Other Works of England's Arch-Poët,Edm. Spenser: Collected into one Volume, and carefully corrected. General title within woodcut historiated border; canto headings within woodcut composite borders in The Faerie Queene; 12 divisional woodcuts in The Shepheards Calendar. [4], 363, [1]; [10], 56; 16; [16]; [136] pages, with the 8-leaf letter to Raleigh etc. bound between Prosopopoia and Colin Clouts Come Home Againe; lacks the integral blanks. 5 parts in one volume. Folio, 277x175 mm, modern tan calf gilt with red morocco lettering piece; scattered marginal foxing and stains, general title soiled and reinforced on verso, hole in F5 affecting a few words, restoration and hole in blank margins of T5, blank outer margin of last 2 leaves restored. Johnson 19. London: H. L. for Mathew Lownes, 1617
