The single quire A contains ‘Prosopopoia’ with separate titlepage bearing imprint ‘At London, Printed by H. L. for Mathew Lownes. Anno Dom. 1613’. Epistle dedicatory to Lady Compton and Mountegle, signed Ed: Sp. The signatures are continuous throughout the remainder of the volume. ‘Colin Clout’ with separate titlepage having imprint without date. Epistle dedicatory to Sir W. Raleigh signed Ed. Sp. and dated, Kilcolman, Dec. 27, 1591. ‘Astrophel’ follows with head-title only. ‘Prothalamion’ ‘Amoretti’ ‘Epitalamion’ ‘Hymnes’ ‘Daphnaida’ ‘Complaints’ and ‘Muiopotmos’ have each a separate titlepage with imprint dated 1611. Some copies of the present volume appear to have been issued containing the 1609 edition of the ‘Faery Queen’; copies in this state are in the Cambridge University and Huth Libraries. BM 1438. The Faerie Queen: The Shepheards Calendar: Together with the other Works of England’s Arch-Pöet, Edm. Spenser: Collected into one Volume, and carefully corrected. _Printed by H. L. for Mathew Lownes. Anno Dom._ 1617. F^o. (11 × 7⅜). F. 6. Title within woodcut border as above. Collation: A⁶, with two unsigned leaves inserted after A 1, B-P⁶Q⁴R-2H⁶; ¶⁸; A-E⁶F⁴; A⁸; A-L⁶M², paged in first alphabet only. A 1, 2H 6 (first alphabet), ¶ 8 and F 4 (second alphabet), blank. Double columns. In this copy the quire signed ¶ is misplaced after the second alphabet, an arrangement also found in the copy in the Cambridge University Library. It is sometimes found at the end of the volume. The inserted sheet contains titlepage and dedication to Queen Elizabeth. The ‘Faery Queen’ is the same edition as above (1611), but has the date 1612 on the titlepage to Part II; so also is sig. ¶ and the single quire A containing the ‘Prosopopoia’. The remainder is a very close reprint, the contents and collation being identical. The separate titlepages have dates as follows (they are all printed ‘by H. L. for Mathew Lownes’ except the first): ‘Shepheards Calender’ with imprint ‘London, Printed by Bar: Alsop for Iohn Harrison the elder, and are to bee solde at his shop at the signe of the golden Anker in Pater Noster Row, 1617.’; ‘Colin Clout’ undated, ‘Prothalamion’ etc. 1617. The peculiarities observable in the various copies of the collected editions of 1611 and 1617 are best explained on the following hypothesis. On Sept. 3, 1604 W. Ponsonby assigned his right in both parts of the ‘Faery Queene’ to S. Waterson, who on Nov. 5 in the same year passed it on to M. Lownes, who published an edition in 1609. Two years later the question of a collected edition of Spenser’s works arose. Lownes caused a complete edition to be printed, and at the same time determined to use up the remaining copies of the 1609 ‘Faery Queen’.