Instead however of printing the new titlepage on A 1 he caused a single sheet to be printed containing title and dedication, which could be substituted for the 1609 title. A 1 consequently remained blank in the new edition as it is found in the present copy, and the title-sheet was inserted after it. The result of using up the 1609 edition was that the stock of some of the additional matter in the 1611 edition was exhausted before the stock of the ‘Faery Queen’. In 1617 a new title-sheet was printed and prefixed to the remainder stock, the additional pieces being reprinted when necessary. Even now some of the original copies of 1609 remained and were issued with the general title and additional matter dated 1617. A copy in this state is in the Library. The first part to run out was the fourth alphabet containing ‘Colin Clout’ etc., which is always found reprinted in copies having the 1617 titlepage. Perhaps the next was the ‘Prosopopoia’ which is found dated 1613 in the present copy, but which is undated in the copy in the Cambridge University Library. This last-mentioned copy however has the original edition of the ‘Shepherds Calender’ dated 1611, while the present copy has the reprint of 1617. How this came to bear the imprint given above requires explanation. The editions of the ‘Calender’ of 1581 to 1597 were all printed for John Harrison the younger (_i.e._ John Harrison II) and he probably objected when Lownes issued the work with his own name as publisher in the collected edition of 1611. Before the reprint however was required John Harrison the elder (_i.e._ John Harrison I) either died or retired from business (1616), whereupon John Harrison II assumed the style of ‘the elder’ to distinguish himself from a John Harrison IV who had started business in 1603. BM 1438. The Shepheardes Calender Conteyning twelue Æglogues proportionable to the twelue monethes. Entitled to the noble and vertuous Gentleman most worthy of all titles both of learning and cheualrie M. Philip Sidney. _At London. Printed by Hugh Singleton, dwelling in Creede Lane neere vnto Ludgate at the signe of the gylden Tunne, and are there to be solde._ 1579. =B. L.= 4^o. (6¾ × 4⅝). T. 9. 1. Collation: ¶⁴A-N⁴, folios numbered. Verses ‘To his Booke’, signed Immeritò, on verso of title. Epistle to Gabriel Harvey, signed E. K. (_i.e._ Edward Kirke?), with postscript dated April 10, 1579. General argument. Twelve eclogues with arguments and glosses by E. K. and woodcut to each. First edition. Sinker 293. BM 880.