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January The Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume I (1930)

January fromThe Shepheardes Calendar. The shepherd’s boy, Colin Cloute, is shown with a staff (properly called acrook). We also see a distant town with the spires of a cathedral or of churches, and t [...]

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January: page image The Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume I (1930)

The page containing the heading for January; I have also scanned thewoodcut for Januaryseparately.

Keywords: colour, page images, typography, january, people, sheep, zodiac, trees

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A Shepherd Boy (page image) The Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume I (1930)

The start of the first Æglogue (page 11), showing the decorative initial and the page layout.

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February The Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume I (1930)

February fromThe Shepheardes Calendar. An old shepherd,Thenot, speaks to a shepherd boy calledCuddie. We see the zodiac symbols for Pisces (the fish) in the sky.

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March The Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume I (1930)

March fromThe Shepheardes Calendar. Two shepherd’s boys begin to “make purpos of love and other plesaunce, which to springtime is most agreeable.” We see the two boys standing talking, and also Cupid. [...]

Keywords: colour, calendars, months, march, people, cherubs, zodiac

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April The Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume I (1930)

April fromThe Shepheardes Calendar, or, as Spenser wrote it,Aprill. This Æglogue was written to honour Queen Elizabeth I. There are two shepherds, Hobbinoll and Thenott; we met Hobbinoll earlier, when [...]

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May The Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume I (1930)

May fromThe Shepheardes Calendar, showing two shepherds, Piers and Palinodie, represented as as a Protestant and a Catholic minister. In the sky we see the zodiac sign for Gemini, together with the tw [...]

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Roundel with roses and thorns The Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume I (1930)

This roundel, or circular wreath illustration, was made as a typographical decoration for the end of one of Spenser’s sonnets. It features flowers with red petals, although the leaves and stems were p [...]

Keywords: decoration, ornaments, wreaths, flowers, leaves, frames, tailpieces, roundels, colour

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Roundel with stylized blue flowers The Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume I (1930)

This roundel, or circular wreath illustration, was made as a typographical decoration for the end of one of Spenser’s sonnets. It features flowers with blue petals, perhaps meant to be forget-me-not. [...]

Keywords: decoration, ornaments, flowers, wreaths, frames, leaves, tailpieces, roundels, colour

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