Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge

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Colin Clouts Come home againe. By Ed. Spencer. London Printed for William Ponsonbie. 1595.

4^o. (7³⁄₄ × 5¹⁄₂). Q. 10. 2.

Collation: A-H⁴, unpaged. Epistle dedicatory to Sir Walter Raleigh, signed Ed. Sp. and dated, Kilcolman, Dec. 27, 1591. 'Astrophel', with half-title and dedicated to the Countess of Essex, begins on sig. E 4.

Sinker 650. BM 1438.

Complaints. Containing sundrie small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. Whereof the next Page maketh mention. By Ed. Sp. London. Imprinted for William Ponsonbie, dwelling in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Bishops head. 1591.

4^o. (7¹⁄₈ × 4³⁄₄). S. 29. 1.

Title within woodcut border. Collation: A-Z⁴, unpaged. Z 4 blank. List of contents on verso of general titlepage. Printer's address to the reader. Epistle dedicatory to the Countess of Pembroke, signed E. S. 'The Ruines of Time'. 'The Teares of the Muses' with separate title dated 1591 within same border. Epistle dedicatory to Lady Strange, signed Ed. Sp. 'Vergils Gnat' with dedicatory verses to the Earl of Leicester. 'Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale', with separate title dated 1591 within same border. Epistle dedicatory to Lady Compton and Mountegle, signed Ed. Sp. 'The Ruines of Rome: by Bellay'. 'Muiopotmos, Or The Fate of the Butterflie' with separate title dated 1590 within same border. Epistle dedicatory to Lady Carey, signed E. S. 'Visions of the worlds vanitie'. 'The Visions of Bellay'. 'The Visions of Petrarch formerly translated'.

Sinker 724. BM 1429.

The Faerie Queene. Disposed into twelue books, Fashioning XII. Morall vertues. London Printed for William Ponsonbie. 1590.

4^o. (7 × 5). S. 19.

Collation: A-2P⁸2Q⁴, paged. Dedication to Queen Elizabeth signed Ed. Spenser, on verso of titlepage. Books I-III. Letter to Raleigh signed and dated Jan. 23, 1589. Commendatory verses signed W. R. (i.e. Walter Raleigh), Hobynoll (i.e. Gabriel Harvey), R. S., H. B., W. L., Ignoto. Dedicatory verses from the author to Sir Christopher Hatton, the Earl of Essex, the Earl of Oxford, the Earl of Northumberland, the Earl of Ormond and Ossory, Lord Charles Howard, Lord Grey of Wilton, Sir Walter Raleigh, Lady Carew, 'To all the gracious and beautifull Ladies in the Court', the last two only signed E. S. Errata. More dedicatory verses (mostly duplicates of the above) to Hatton (dupl.), Lord Burleigh (signed E. S.), Oxford (dupl.), Northumberland (dupl.), Earl of Cumberland (signed E. S.), Essex (dupl.), Ormond (dupl.), Howard (dupl.), Lord Hunsdon (signed E. S.), Grey (dupl.), Lord Buckhurst, Sir Fr. Walsingham, (signed E. S.), Sir John Norris (signed E. S.), Raleigh (dupl. signed E. S.), Countess of Pembroke (signed E. S.). On M 5^v is a large woodcut of St George and the dragon at beginning of Book II. On X 7^v spaces have been left for the insertion of some Welsh words. These were filled up in the later copies and in the edition of 1596. The printer was John Wolfe, whose device appears on the titlepage. The first edition of Books I-III.

Sinker 598. BM 1438.