Edmund Spenser's Shepheardes calender (1579) / edited by Kenneth Borris.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Borris, Kenneth, editor.

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Series:

Manchester Spenser

The Manchester Spenser

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Shepherd's calendar.

Spenser, Edmund.

Physical Description:

xvii, 280 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 25 cm.

Edition:

An analyzed facsimile edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Introduction

1. Prologue

2. Hugh Singleton and the Calender's first publication

3. Designing the 1579 edition

4. Formal affinities, models, sources, and intertexts

5. The Calender and popular almanacs

6. Bibliographical format, paper, typography, and decoration

7. Textual components, their sequence, and the norms of bucolic print

8. The genesis of the illustrations

9. The illustrative mode

10. The pictorial symbology

11. Known copies, surrogates, and the copy reproduced

Appendices

Appendix 1 Spenser's alleged pictorial naivety

Appendix 2 Enlargements of the Calender's twelve original pictures

A facsimile reprint of Spenser's 1579 Calender.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Contains:

Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Shepherd's calendar.

ISBN:

9781526133458

1526133458

OCLC:

1255213804

Publisher Number:

99991340340