Collation: A-2H⁶2I⁴, paged. 2I 4 blank. Double columns. Dedication to Queen Elizabeth on verso of titlepage. Bks. I-III. Commendatory verses signed W. R. (_i.e._ Walter Raleigh) and Hobynoll (_i.e._ Gabriel Harvey). ‘The Second Part of the Faery Queene’, containing Bks. IV-VI, begins at _sig_. Q5 with separate titlepage ‘Imprinted at London for Mathew Lownes. 1609.’. The fragment of the seventh book ‘Of Mutability’ first appears in this edition with head-title at sig. 2H 4. The copy described in the Huth catalogue, which has the date in the colophon printed ‘16012’ belongs, as the collation shows, to the edition of 1611, and can only have the earlier titlepage prefixed. The copy of the ‘Faery Queen’ on the other hand in the collected edition of 1611, there described, is properly that of 1609. BM 1439. The Faerie Queen: The Shepheards Calendar: Together with the other Works of England’s Arch-Poët, Edm. Spenser: Collected into one Volume, and carefully corrected. _Printed by H. L. for Mathew Lownes. Anno Dom._ 1611. F^o. (11¼ × 7¼). F. 5. Title within woodcut border originally used in 1593 for Sidney’s ‘Arcadia’. Collation: A⁶, with two unsigned leaves inserted after A 1, B-P⁶Q⁴R-2H⁶; ¶⁸; A-E⁶F⁴; A⁸; A-L⁶M²; first alphabet only paged. 2H 6, ¶ 8 and F 4 (second alphabet) blank. Wanting A 1 (first alphabet) (? blank). Double columns. Titlepage and dedication to Queen Elizabeth occupying unsigned sheet. ‘Faery Queen’ Bks I-III, with commendatory verses signed W. R. (_i.e._ W. Raleigh) and Hobynoll (_i.e._ G. Harvey) at the end. Bks IV-VI, with separate titlepage ‘Imprinted at London for Mathew Lownes. Anno Dom. 1613.’ (Some copies, _vide infra_, have the date 1612, but the difference is in the last figure alone). Bk VII begins with head-title at sig. 2G 6. At the end of this portion appears a colophon with the date printed ‘16012’, followed by one blank leaf. The quire signed ¶ containing letter to Sir Walter Raleigh signed Edm. Spenser and dated Jan. 23, 1589, followed by commendatory verses signed W. R., Hobbynoll (these two same as above), R. S., H. B., W. L., and Ignoto. Also dedicatory verses to Sir Christopher Hatton, Lord Burleigh, Earl of Oxford, Earl of Northumberland, Earl of Cumberland, Earl of Essex, Earl of Ormond and Ossory, Lord Ch. Howard, Lord Hunsdon, Lord Grey of Wilton, Lord Buckhurst, Sir Fr. Walsingham, Sir Joh. Norris, Sir Wal. Raleigh and the Countess of Pembroke, each signed E. S., followed by one blank leaf. The second alphabet contains the ‘Shepherds Calender’. Separate titlepage with imprint ‘At London, Printed by H. L. for Mathew Lownes, and are to be sold at the signe of the Bishops head in Paules Church-yard. 1611’. Contents as in separate edition, with same woodcuts. One leaf blank at end.