BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
Of the copies collated for this edition, three are in the Bodleian, viz.:—
(1) Malone 615, Books I-III, 1590.(2) Malone 616, Books IV-VI, 1596.(3) 4oArt. Seld. S. 22, Books I-VI, 1596 (collated for Books I-III).For 1609 I have used (4) a copy belonging to Mr. Charles Cannan.
The following copies, though not collatedverbatim, have been examined for variants:—
The bibliographical note on Spenser in theDictionary of National Biographyappears to ignore 4oArt. Seld. S. 22.
The 1590, 1596, 1609 editions ofF. Q.have been described already. In 1611 Lownes (the publisher of the 1609F. Q.) set about a complete edition of Spenser’s poems. But having on hand unsold copies of 1609, he incorporated parts of these under the new title-page.[13]This has happened to (6), the first part of which is identical with 1609, except for the title-page and dedication. The genuine 1611 edition ofF. Q.I-III is represented by
the first part of (14). The second part of (6), bearing date 1612, has been reset: it is identical with the second parts of (7), (13), (14), which bear date 1613. No 1611 edition ofF. Q.IV-VII is known to me. But in the footnotes I have followed the custom of citing this ‘Second Folio’ as 1611, except where readings not found by me in editions prior to 1612-13 have been attributed to 1609 by previous editors, misled perhaps by the omission from the British Museum catalogue of the second title to (13). In the Critical Appendix on Books IV-VII I cite this Second Folio (for these Books) as 16(11)-12-13.
Subsequent editions of Spenser’s works:—The folios of 1617, 1679 (the latter said to have been overseen by Dryden); ed. J. Hughes, 1715; H. J. Todd, 1805; F. J. Child, 1855; J. P. Collier, 1862; R. Morris, 1869; A. B. Grosart, 1882-4.
Separate editions ofFaerie Queene:—ed. J. Upton, 1758; R. Church, 1758-9; Kate M. Warren, 1897-1900.
Commentaries:—Remarks on Spenser’s Poems, by J. Jortin, 1734.Observations on the Faerie Queene, by T. Warton, 1754.
[For the matter of this note I am largely indebted to Mr. Ostler and Mr. Percy Simpson.]
FOOTNOTES:[13]From a MS. note of Malone’s I learn that Ponsonbye had played the same trick in 1596; and even of the 1617 folio Church avers that some copies are made up with sheets of the old 1611.
[13]From a MS. note of Malone’s I learn that Ponsonbye had played the same trick in 1596; and even of the 1617 folio Church avers that some copies are made up with sheets of the old 1611.
[13]From a MS. note of Malone’s I learn that Ponsonbye had played the same trick in 1596; and even of the 1617 folio Church avers that some copies are made up with sheets of the old 1611.