Kenneth Borris is Professor of English Literature at McGill University

• Introduction:1 Prologue2 Hugh Singleton and the Calender's first publication3 Designing the 1579 edition4 Formal affinities, models, sources, and intertexts5 The Calender and popular almanacs6 Bibliographical format, paper, typography, and decoration7 Textual components, their sequence, and the norms of bucolic print8 The genesis of the illustrations9 The illustrative mode10 The pictorial symbology11 Known copies, surrogates, and the copy reproducedAppendices:Appendix 1: Spenser's alleged pictorial naivetyAppendix 2: Enlargements of the Calender's twelve original picturesA facsimile reprint of Spenser's 1579 CalenderIndex

Kenneth Borris is Professor of English Literature at McGill University

• Introduction:1 Prologue2 Hugh Singleton and the Calender's first publication3 Designing the 1579 edition4 Formal affinities, models, sources, and intertexts5 The Calender and popular almanacs6 Bibliographical format, paper, typography, and decoration7 Textual components, their sequence, and the norms of bucolic print8 The genesis of the illustrations9 The illustrative mode10 The pictorial symbology11 Known copies, surrogates, and the copy reproducedAppendices:Appendix 1: Spenser's alleged pictorial naivetyAppendix 2: Enlargements of the Calender's twelve original picturesA facsimile reprint of Spenser's 1579 CalenderIndex

Kenneth Borris is Professor of English Literature at McGill University

• Introduction:1 Prologue2 Hugh Singleton and the Calender's first publication3 Designing the 1579 edition4 Formal affinities, models, sources, and intertexts5 The Calender and popular almanacs6 Bibliographical format, paper, typography, and decoration7 Textual components, their sequence, and the norms of bucolic print8 The genesis of the illustrations9 The illustrative mode10 The pictorial symbology11 Known copies, surrogates, and the copy reproducedAppendices:Appendix 1: Spenser's alleged pictorial naivetyAppendix 2: Enlargements of the Calender's twelve original picturesA facsimile reprint of Spenser's 1579 CalenderIndex