Hi Anne,
Not sure if this helps but there is a copy (with a description of the
contents) for sale with the following info:
Spenser, Edmund
Complaints
London 1591. Complaints. Containing sundrie smal poemes of the worlds
vanitie. . . . By Ed. Sp. London: imprinted for William Ponsonbie, 1591. 182
pp. (unpaginated). Sm. 4to, 19th-century russia, gilt borders with a central
panel in gilt and blind, spine gilt, red edges (slight crack in upper
joint); in a red morocco solander case.First edition. The principal
collection of Spenser's minor verse, and one of his earliest books; some of
the poems have been revised from earlier appearances, notably the sonnets
from Petrarch and Du Bellay (first published in the 1569 English edition of
Noot's Theatre for Worldlings), but most are printed here for the first
time; among the other titles, listed on the verso of the title-page, are
"The Ruines of Time," "The Teares of the Muses," "Virgil's Gnat,"
"Prosopopoia, or Mother Hubberds Tale," and "Visions of the Worlds Vanitie."
It seems probable that this volume was assembled to take advantage of the
favorable reception of the first three books of the Faerie Queene, which
Ponsonby had brought out in 1590. Copies of this book show a considerable
number of variant readings, but these all appear to be press corrections,
with the various sheets indiscriminately gathered and bound. Title-page
within an elaborate woodcut border, which is repeated on the separate
title-pages for three other poems (one dated 1590). A few very minor stains,
but essentially a fine unwashed copy. Early signature at the end of William
Dawtrey; book label of H. Bradley Martin, who acquired this copy in 1960
from Seven Gables Bookshop ($750). STC 23078; Hayward 23; Grolier 235;
Pforzheimer 968; CBEL I, 1030. Bookseller Inventory #B3756
Price: US$ 19942.50 (Convert Currency)
Bookseller: Ximenes Rare Books Inc., ABAA, ABA, ILAB, Kempsford,
Gloucestershire, United Kingdom (Search this Seller's Books)(Ask Bookseller
a Question)
-John
>From: aprescot <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Sidney-Spenser Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: MS of Complaints
>Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 14:55:00 -0500
>
>By the way, does anybody know anything about a MS of Spenser's *Complaints*
>at
>the Houghton Library in Cambridge? I have ordered a microfilm and Joe
>Loewenstein will be there next term (year?) and can deal with it better
>than I
>can but in the meantime, aside from waiting for the microfilm to arrive I
>thought maybe somebody has information about it. I assume it's not *very*
>exciting or there would have been comments to that effect on it in the
>scholarship. Perhaps it is premature to make this inquiry before I've seen
>the
>thing (or its filmy double), but I don't want to waste much time thinking
>about it if a lot of people out there have seen it and determined that
>despite
>Houghton's date of "c. 1591) it's really a 19th c. copy of Upton's version.
>In
>my dreams, of course, it's signed "Edmund Spenser" and has instructions to
>the
>printer and illustrations by Hillyard. Ho ho. Just kidding. David Miller,
>Patrick Cheney, and Joe himself say they don't know much about it so I can
>go
>on dreaming for a few more days. Anne Prescott.
>
> >===== Original Message From Sidney-Spenser Discussion List
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> >Be sure the Edmund Spenser Home Page
> ><http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenser/main.htm> gets a heads-up to link
> >you in. Congratulations on a fine project.
> >
> >Richard Bear <[log in to unmask]>
> >Renascence Editions
> ><http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm>
>
>anne prescott
>english, barnard college
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